T. Boone Pickens (Thomas Boone Pickens Jr.) Quotes
It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.
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When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.
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I've been super impressed with what BuzzFeed has done on Facebook with inspiring list posts and on Twitter with political scoops, but YouTube is a giant social platform that has its own quirks and oddities and will require some new approaches.
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I over-scrutinize anyone new entering my life.
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During the nineteenth century, men died believing in the cause of royalty or republicanism. In reality, much of their sacrifice was rendered on the altar of the new nationalism.
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America is our biggest market, and I really do believe if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere.
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I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.
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If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there's no doubt in my mind but that they would've detonated it in New York.
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In 2014, we have some new activities and new order wins in the non-automotive space.
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We're called New Jersey but we're actually the suburbs of New York.
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In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long strikes by the sanitation workers. A major blackout led to days and days of looting. The city seemed either frightening or risible to the rest of the nation.
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My mother witnessed the martyrdom of her husband, Hajj Malik Shabazz, Malcolm X, on Sunday, February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. My older sisters, Attallah, Qubilah and I were seated with our mother up front and stage right.
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You have to work with the auto industry, the oil companies, you have to work to develop renewable fuel, whether it's solar or different kinds of fuel or whatever.
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In the 20th century alone, there have been 1,600 books about the circus. My adding one more would be superfluous unless I do something totally new and different.
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The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.
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Our real focus is going to be what can we do with our existing capacities, what new things can we do, and how much more demand can we fulfil with our existing capacities.
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One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.
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Corporations are the new dictators.
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I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast - you sort of can't skip it.
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It took me a while to find myself.
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The beginning of the shows are different. One time we'll say 'Hello, Denver'. Another time we'll say 'Hello, Memphis'. It's always different.
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I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle.
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I love to dance, and sing - in the shower, not in public. I'm too old to go raving, but my fondest memories are of that kind of thing - dancing, with lots of people, outside if possible.
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Sometimes James Bond movies drive me crazy. They're fun to watch, but they don't have anything to do at all with what intelligence officers really do.
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It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.
