T. Boone Pickens (Thomas Boone Pickens Jr.) Quotes
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Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
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I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
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Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
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I like to discover new things.
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If I had the opportunity to buy the latest movie that's out that month and watch it on the comfort of my big screen TV, I would pay for that.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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I actually don't think there is any difference between French and American cuisine. French cuisine was always about discipline, about ingredient, about creativity, but also about simple. I see America as very similar in these rights.
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It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.
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I love the story of a thing. I love a thing for what it means a thousand times more than for what it's worth.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.
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Nothing comes at all -- never anything. And I cannot accustom myself to that. It is this monotony, this absolute fixity in life, that is the hardest thing for me to endure. I should like to go away from here. Go away? But where and how? I do not know, and I stay.
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I've been married over 50 years of my life.
