T. Boone Pickens (Thomas Boone Pickens Jr.) Quotes
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Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
Quentin Blake -
I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
Naomie Harris -
Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
P. J. O'Rourke -
All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
Tammy Baldwin -
I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
Edith Wharton -
I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
Calvin Klein
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
Ralph Marston -
Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
Barbara De Angelis -
I like to discover new things.
Olivier Megaton -
If I had the opportunity to buy the latest movie that's out that month and watch it on the comfort of my big screen TV, I would pay for that.
Dana Brunetti -
Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
Adam Cohen -
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Lao Tzu
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
Sachin Tendulkar -
I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.
Jack Irons Pearl Jam -
We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
Samantha Harvey -
You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
J. J. Abrams -
There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
M. F. K. Fisher -
I actually don't think there is any difference between French and American cuisine. French cuisine was always about discipline, about ingredient, about creativity, but also about simple. I see America as very similar in these rights.
Daniel Boulud
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Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.
Felix Frankfurter -
Goodness strives not, and therefore it is not rebuked.
Lao Tzu -
I did some years of therapy and self-realization, and I just move and think at a slower pace - doesn't make me sound very smart! But really not reacting and doing more listening than talking, and letting people say what they need to say, and then maybe not saying anything at all.
Natalie Maines -
Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects.
Lion Feuchtwanger -
I've been married over 50 years of my life.
T. Boone Pickens