T. Boone Pickens (Thomas Boone Pickens Jr.) Quotes
If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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As a woman, my style defines my leadership. It's a gentler, more compassionate approach. I consult, I listen and I compromise where it's in the best interest of the citizens.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
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You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range.
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Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
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Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I'm doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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In football, you are going to have highs and lows, and you have to recognize when you have new opportunities and walk in those.
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If you listen to a Deadmau5 record or a Skrillex record, I really enjoy that stuff because, as aggressive sounding as the Skrillex records are, they're still musical, and that's why they have such a broad appeal.
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I had an indie pop phase, I had just about every phase you could think of.
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I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N - O!
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Maybe 'America first' means also that you have to deal with America first.
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When in doubt, you bring in relatives. Nepotism is a part of my work.
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England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.
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The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon... The book has been thoroughly tested, and it's very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes.
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I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.
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Never let 'em see you sweat. Guests feel guilty if they think you've worked too hard to make dinner for them - which of course you have!
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With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that.
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If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.
