T. Boone Pickens (Thomas Boone Pickens Jr.) Quotes
In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us.
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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With this business, you have to learn to go with the flow. Not being able to grow in comfort is a beautiful thing when you're uncomfortable, so just embrace it and roll with it, and you'll come out stronger.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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Growing up, I was into 'Power Rangers.'
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're all working in an international industry.
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Americans should never believe, even incorrectly, that one's criminal activity will go unpunished simply because it was committed on behalf of a corporation.
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I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.
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The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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My first two books, I was very close to my main character, stuck inside their head. And then with 'Arrogance,' I broke into many different voices. I introduce many different characters, and that helped me to develop a confidence to move between different characters, between different voices.
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It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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When we save the rain forest, the polar bear, and Al Gore, we should party so hard that Canada calls the cops on us for noise.
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In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us.
