T. Boone Pickens (Thomas Boone Pickens Jr.) Quotes
I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.

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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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One of the most widely read novels by a black American is Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man.' It is his masterwork - it won the National Book Award in 1953 and catapulted my man to the highest levels of literary esteem.
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is why they have captured the investing public's imagination.
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I like to play dress up, I'm in love with fashion.
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Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!
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Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance.
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I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.
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You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.
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I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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I would love to work with someone like Kevin Spacey as he could pass on what I need to learn.
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When I work, I work non-stop and so hard that I barely get time to see anything but the set and home. So whenever I am done with one show, I go into my globetrotter mode and just pick a place and disappear for a while.
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I want to live forever, and I know I won't. I'm not afraid of dying. I'm only afraid of one thing: not being able to raise my kids.
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The Pakistani government under Musharraf is a strong and key player in the global war on terrorism, and their contribution has been second to none.
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Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.