T. Boone Pickens (Thomas Boone Pickens Jr.) Quotes
If somebody I don't like gets in the crosshairs, I pull the trigger. But I don't hunt for them.
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I don't have to worry about the obvious things like money.
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When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.
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I like to prove people wrong.
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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.
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I'm not a girly girl. I go to the bar. I like to get dirty. I love sports. I'm like the son my dad never had.
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I love music, and can dance on the desi beats. Punjabi music is my favourite. I listen to artists like Honey Singh. I love his music. I also love watching Bollywood films.
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I like to get to bed with a clear head.
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Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
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I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
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I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.
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I like being involved with projects that are not only entertaining but are also thought provoking. Either that, or jobs that keep a roof over my head. A mixture of both is always nice.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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My arm bones looked like chicken bones.
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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
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I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.
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My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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A doctor can only treat patients. A doctor can only help the people who are shot or who are injured. But a politician can stop people from injuries. A politician can take a step so that no person is scared tomorrow.
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I don't believe in a lot of schmoozing and buttering up. Not that you don't become friends in work. But I think it's a misconception that you have to do a lot of hanging before you work.
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I have very specific advice for aspiring writers: go to New York. And if you can't go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests.
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If somebody I don't like gets in the crosshairs, I pull the trigger. But I don't hunt for them.
