T. Boone Pickens (Thomas Boone Pickens Jr.) Quotes
I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are.
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I've said before, the number one thing that we have to work on is protecting the gay community from sharia law. Now, in the United States, it's probably not a big issue right now, but my brother-in-law is gay, and his partner and I would like them to be able to travel any place in the world without them risking harm.
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I'm an atheist and a humanist, so I have no desire to evangelize anyone.
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I'm only 26 - I don't know anything about life yet. Life is like a puzzle and my pieces are spread all over the world.
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Oakland kids are always the best.
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I love everything John Carpenter's ever done.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.
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The worst affected from corruption is the common man.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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A car is a killing machine. It's like waving a loaded gun. People don't realise how dangerous they are.
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By not trying the small cases, the lawyers don't get the courtroom experience. So when the huge, bet-the-company cases come along, there are only a handful of trial lawyers who can handle it. That's why these big corporations still call us old-timers every day.
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Part of what I try to do in schools is take poetry off of a pedestal and make it a little more accessible and approachable.
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A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks.
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It's like a painter with various layers of paint. I start with a drum loop and add keyboards, and then melodies start to take shape. The vocals happen later. I've never really done therapy before, but it's a form of therapy. Everything else falls away.
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I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.
