T. Boone Pickens (Thomas Boone Pickens Jr.) Quotes
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Indians invest more in Britain than in the rest of European Union combined. It is not because they want to save on interpretation costs, but because they find an environment that is welcoming and familiar.
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don't do that. That's not me. I wouldn't feel like a human being.
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I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
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Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.
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The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!
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We're really going after truly creating sustainability of a disease-free state, creating a complete system for managing cancer patients for life, so that you can manage from onset of disease all the way through.
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I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.
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You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-gun came around? Well, here's the answer. You want to know why Mexicans allowed Americans to settle Texas in the first place? It was fear of Comanches.
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Mehlis will go all the way and we want to go all the way. These arrests show that no matter how high the perpetrators are, they will face the consequences of what they did.
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Federal prosecutors want to indict Julian Assange for making public a great many classified documents.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.
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You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.
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'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
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I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner's office while he read through my memo.
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If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
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I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites.
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You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level.
