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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I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.
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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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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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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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If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.
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I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.
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What I love about New York is just the electricity I feel right away.
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The newness effect of a new thing wears off in nine months to a year, but financial security can last a lifetime.
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I embody the renewed monarchy for a new time.
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He was going to live in New York, and be known at every restaurant and cafe, wearing a dress suit from early evening to early morning, sleeping away the dull hours of the forenoon.
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When you're young, you don't care about your parents and what they're doing. But then you get to your 20s, and you start watching their movies. And then you become an actor, as I did late in college, and then you're really watching them. And they were really very good.
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I'm about as healthy as a person can be. I quit smoking seven or eight years ago.
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It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.
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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.
