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.
Quentin Blake -
I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
Naomie Harris -
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.
P. J. O'Rourke -
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.
Tammy Baldwin -
I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
Edith Wharton -
Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
Ralph Marston
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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.
Barbara De Angelis -
I like to discover new things.
Olivier Megaton -
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.
Dana Brunetti -
Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
Adam Cohen -
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.
Lao Tzu -
From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
Sachin Tendulkar
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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.
Jack Irons Pearl Jam -
We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
Samantha Harvey -
You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
J. J. Abrams -
There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
M. F. K. Fisher -
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.
Daniel Boulud -
Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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It's just different today. Nobody seems to last too long these days. I wouldn't know how to get started today.
Stanley Robert Vinton -
I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a bleeding ulcer.
Barry Marshall -
It was ages ago in life's first wonder I found you, Virgilia, wild sea-heart; And 'twas ages ago that we went asunder, Ages and worlds apart.Your luminous face and your hair's dark glory, I knew them of old by an ocean-stream, In a far, first world now turned to story, Now faded back to dream.
Edwin Markham -
Vampires are so sexy and powerful - they're so otherworldly; they have eternal life and youth.
Jessica Clark -
I do think that people have moments of realisation in real life - even if it's on their death beds - when they suddenly think, 'Jesus - what did I do?'
Cameron Winklevoss -
I've been married over 50 years of my life.
T. Boone Pickens