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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War is the greatest failure of mankind.
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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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For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don't think you're very good at it - which is rubbish. You're missing out here.
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When I'm a part of someone else's creative process, it's all about facilitating their ideas and hopefully bringing their perspective and making it a part of a song.
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My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.
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Every so often, I'll get an idea from a dream, but most of the time, ideas come to me while I'm toiling away at the keyboard just like every other writer.
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Before an individual can be saved, he must first learn that he cannot save himself.
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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.
