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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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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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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People tend to think about God more when the clock starts to wind down.
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I wanted to be a huge star and I have failed.
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I didn't just work at a hardware store. I went to college for a second, and I worked there on breaks or during the summer.
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I love fashion and appreciate it so much, and I feel like it's moving artwork going down a runway.
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.