T. Boone Pickens (Thomas Boone Pickens Jr.) Quotes
Money is to be respected one of the worst things you can do is handle another person's money without respect for how hard it was to earn.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
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In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.
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I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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My happy place is holding my daughter and my husband in the same hug. It really is. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it. I consider it such a privilege, and I know that I'm lucky. I never want to take it for granted.
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Obviously I will promote 'Vaalu.' It is my film. I am the lead actress in it; I play a major part, and I will promote the film.
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
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We want to get to a point where anything you can think of finding that is video related is searchable or recommended to you on YouTube.
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I just can't read music.
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Why should anyone be interested in my life? It's the prurience I find so extraordinary. Why, why, oh why should my private life be of any interest to the public? The only people who should be interested are my friends.
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It's not my ambition to direct lots of films. I think if I direct one film in my whole life, why rush it?
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I wrote 'Redefining Realness' because not enough of our stories are being told, and I believe we need stories that reflect us so we don't feel so isolated in our apparent 'difference.'
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In fiction film, there are so many trappings - money, glory, champagne and supermodels - that attract the wolves. But in documentary film, there's none of that, so the wolves stay away. The only people who make docs are people who are curious about other people and just like making documentaries.
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Do not ever go back to that from which decided to leave. As much as you did not ask, and how would you not want to own. Having conquered a mountain, begin to attack the other.
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Money is to be respected one of the worst things you can do is handle another person's money without respect for how hard it was to earn.
