T. Boone Pickens (Thomas Boone Pickens Jr.) Quotes
We are now spending half a trillion dollars on foreign oil, importing 62 percent of the oil we use, and we haven't had the leadership in D.C. to do anything about it. We've got to move to other sources of energy. But we've gotten way behind, and will continue to pay the fiddler. It's not a good future.
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Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.
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What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.
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Cute girls and burgers. What more can you ask for? That's why we live in America.
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The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.
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'Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.
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You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.
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The Olympics have their own unique atmosphere and energy. People might say it's just the same as any other competition, but don't kid yourself. There's a hunger for victory.
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Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
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After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.
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My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose. But if we call ourselves hillbillies, it's a sort of a term of endearment, something that we have co-opted.
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It's not my goal to be a famous actor.
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It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.
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Baseball has better opening days and All-Star Games than the N.F.L. does. Ours stink.
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Yes, death is strong, but look you, the strongest, Stronger is music than death.
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Sometimes it's a relief just to focus on putting one foot in front of the other.
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The depth of your belief and the strength of your conviction determines the power of your personality.
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We are now spending half a trillion dollars on foreign oil, importing 62 percent of the oil we use, and we haven't had the leadership in D.C. to do anything about it. We've got to move to other sources of energy. But we've gotten way behind, and will continue to pay the fiddler. It's not a good future.
