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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When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.
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Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.
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The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.
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The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.
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It's all right leaping about the stage when you're 20 but when you get to 25 it gets a bit embarrassing
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If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.
