T. Boone Pickens (Thomas Boone Pickens Jr.) Quotes
I know what people say, that water's a lot like air. Do you charge for air? Well, of course not. Well, you shouldn't charge for water. Okay, watch what happens you won't have any water
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.
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Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!
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When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.
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Margaret had close links with Geneva where she had spent some years as a student while her parents had been wardens of the Quaker Hostel there and where she had gone back as secretary to Gilbert Murray.
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Your initial instincts about investments and people are usually correct. We do a lot of due diligence in this business and most of the time it comes out where we started.
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There's always going to be somebody that you consider maybe more beautiful. But nine times out of ten here in L.A., that beauty isn't home grown. It's usually manufactured. It sort of encourages me to work more within myself because I think that's not what appeals to me. Plastic and tons of makeup.
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I know what people say, that water's a lot like air. Do you charge for air? Well, of course not. Well, you shouldn't charge for water. Okay, watch what happens you won't have any water
