Edwin Drake Quotes
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.
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I have been the victim of heartless malice.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
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I think part of what I love about being an actor is getting to take on different worlds and investigate different genres and travel to different lands.
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I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.
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How is AIDS research to progress when the premise of science is questioning but the premise of questioning HIV is considered so dangerous that even venturing into the facts is too great a risk?
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You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.
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I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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If you believe the people who love you, you get lazy. And if you believe the people who hate you, you become... maybe intimidated, or whatever the word might be, and you don't write as well.
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Every international meeting or championship I do, I can cope a lot better because I can say I did the 100 m. hurdles, opened up the athletics at an Olympic Games in front of a home crowd, 80,000 people.
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In a way, publishing in 2005 was similar to publishing in 1950. Nobody kept blogs; that was still optional. I didn't even have a website then.
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If parents don't like some of the stuff I do then they shouldn't let their kids watch me.
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There ain't nothing that we need to be worried about. We just need to be in the right lane where everybody else be in the left lane.
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Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.
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Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
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I take inspiration from everything around me, also relationships and friends. And the inside of my crazy head.
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I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.
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During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.
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Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy!
