T. Boone Pickens (Thomas Boone Pickens Jr.) Quotes
I don't like stock buybacks. I think if a company has the money to buy their stock back, then they should take that and increase the dividends. Send it back to the stockholder. Let them invest their money again from the dividends.
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I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
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The U.S. economy and workers benefit from a strong, healthy relationship between government and business.
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I have learned to be patient.
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One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never sits watching a debate in person - is because the vast majority of American voters watch these political events on television.
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I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.
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With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
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I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
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I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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I remember reading a 'Scientific American' article about the use of new physical techniques - including neutron scattering - as a method for unravelling the structure of the ribosome. I was fascinated.
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The Iraqis are not threatened by the Turks or by the Iranians or by the Saudis and they tell me that these are not weapons of mass destruction, they are weapons of self-destruction.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States.
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Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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My family keeps me pretty grounded. Like if I try anything diva, they're like, 'Oh shut up. Go and do the dishwasher.'
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When you're a skateboarder or a snowboarder, it affects the way you talk, the way you move, the way you interact with the world and other people.
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I'm a huge advocate for human rights and cultural rights. I stand up for minorities and will always continue to do so.
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If you ask a founder how their company is doing, they always say, 'Oh it's great. We're totally crushing it,' and that's almost never true.
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I don't like stock buybacks. I think if a company has the money to buy their stock back, then they should take that and increase the dividends. Send it back to the stockholder. Let them invest their money again from the dividends.
