T. Boone Pickens (Thomas Boone Pickens Jr.) Quotes
I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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Television can be a little tricky in terms of finding roles that feel fully flushed out, which is why I love being in the theater so much, because the roles tend to be really on the page.
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I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivid images of the legal principles and implications of the ruling that will stick in the Justices' heads and will help influence how they think about the case.
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I'm not a Facebook girl. Even though there is a fake Facebook with my name, it's not me. I'm not on Twitter; it's not me.
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Playing tough characters just comes easy for me. It's not who I am in real life, so I love going to work and pretending to be something I'm not. I love all the action and confidence. But when I finally go do a rom-com, I hope my fans will support me.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I've never played a gay character on screen, so that would be interesting. I've never played a gay character, and that would fascinate me because I'm not gay, so that would interest me.
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Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your words.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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Try to guess my answer to that question, however temptingly you pose it.
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Sometimes, an afternoon spent in bed with someone can be the most important thing in the universe.
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Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied science; to me it is more important to know if the experiment will yield new and probably enduring knowledge about nature. If it is likely to yield such knowledge, it is, in my opinion, good fundamental research; and this is more important than whether the motivation is purely aesthetic satisfaction on the part of the experimenter on the one hand or the improvement of the stability of a high-power transistor on the other.
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I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
