T. Boone Pickens (Thomas Boone Pickens Jr.) Quotes
I don't go looking for somewhere to spend my money. You can step on a tube of toothpaste for a week, if you have to. I spend what I need to and give it away.
Quotes to Explore
-
People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
-
People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
-
I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
-
The cast of 'Lemonade Mouth' was picked so perfectly. A lot of people see us as a band on camera, but not a lot of people know that Lemonade Mouth was a band off-camera, too.
-
The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.
-
Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
-
I don't look at myself as suffering.
-
Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
-
In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
-
I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
-
I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
-
We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.
-
We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
-
Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
-
Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.
-
When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what's around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.
-
There is always anxiety before a competition and it was no different for me today. It was only in the third round, with about 40 targets left, that I realised I could match the world record score.
-
A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
-
You just never know how back injuries are going to affect you.
-
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
-
As an individual doing a podcast, you don't get even remotely rich. It's not something to do for money.
-
Do we want to be successful, or do we just want to make noise just to make it? Or just to put something on the record? I'll be honest with you, I'm tired of putting stuff on the record. I'm ready to see some real transformation and change.
-
I want young girls to dream about being professional soccer players instead of just watching the boys go out and play.
-
I don't go looking for somewhere to spend my money. You can step on a tube of toothpaste for a week, if you have to. I spend what I need to and give it away.
