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.

  

  Laura Prepon
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• You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • 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.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
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• If you're famous, you're not free.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
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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.

  

  Wendy Kopp
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  • Want

• If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!

  

  Octavia Spencer
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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.

  

  Nate Parker
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• If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
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  • Human

• You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
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  • Impossible

• Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.

  

  Patricia Marx
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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!

  

  J. August Richards
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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.

  

  Lao Tzu
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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.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
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  • Opportunities

• 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.

  

  Kaskade
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• I had an indie pop phase, I had just about every phase you could think of.

  

  Caitlin Rose
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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!

  

  Abraham Polonsky
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• Maybe 'America first' means also that you have to deal with America first.

  

  Federica Mogherini
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• When in doubt, you bring in relatives. Nepotism is a part of my work.

  

  Garry Marshall
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  • Doubt

• The U.S. can become carbon neutral in our lifetimes. In the process, we will put millions of Americans to work, make our companies more competitive, and shield our communities from extreme weather. And we will honor our obligation to leave the world a better place for future generations.

  

  Frances Beinecke
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  • Work
  • Future

• The Soviet Union, the socialist camp, the People's Republic of China, and North Korea helped us resist, with essential supplies and weapons, the implacable blockade of the United States, the most powerful empire ever to exist.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
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  • China

• What's really important? That I'm an individual, I guess. I am an individual - a strong one, too. I'm Natalie Cole. I gotta be me.

  

  Natalie Cole
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• I'm a huge David Lindsay-Abaire fan. If I could write, I would want to write like him.

  

  Tate Donovan
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• Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
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• If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
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