T. Boone Pickens (Thomas Boone Pickens Jr.) Quotes
Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.
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When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
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Remember: You are the common denominator in all your relationship problems. Wherever you go, your pesky repeated issues go - until you shed a blazing light of insight upon them.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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People will have MP3s of every Miles Davis' record but never think of hearing any of them twice in a row - there's just too much to get through.
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You should never meet your heroes. Paul Newman... I was so excited about meeting him, but he turned up in shell suit bottoms, slippers, and a jumper. He was just so worn out and old, he wanted to go home.
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I was born and trained to communicate music, just as the sons were born and trained to hunt, and I was lucky to have grown up in Hungary, a country that lives and breathes music-that has a passionate belief in the power of music as a celebration of life.
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The challenge was the opportunity. When I read the first draft of Steve Kloves' fabulous adaptation - I hadn't read [Michael] Chabon's book at that time - what I was immediately captivated by was this group of characters that were at once so engaging and so messed up.
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Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.
