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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A major feature of life at the NIH in late 1960s was the extraordinary offering of evening courses for physicians attempting to become scientists as they neared thirty.
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I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom.
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When we're falling in love or out of it, that's when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I'm very happy to do that.
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A liberdade é a possibilidade do isolamento... Se te é impossível viver só, nasceste escravo.
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There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
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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.
