T. Boone Pickens (Thomas Boone Pickens Jr.) Quotes

On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.

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• When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Law
  • Conscience
  • Follow

• Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.'

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
  • Time
  • Character
  • Leaving

• I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Time
  • God
  • Heart

• September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Up
  • Past
  • Hate

• Actor's life is very long.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Life
  • Long
  • Actor

• How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the reader, the last shot at 'nailing' it. I love to write ending lines; usually, I know them first and write toward them, but if I knew how they came to me, I wouldn't tell.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Important
  • Love
  • Chance

• Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Country
  • Wall
  • President

• The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Work
  • Country
  • Thought

• As a kid, I always felt connected to Africa; it was something I was very proud of.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Proud
  • Very
  • Africa

• I used to just sit in the living room and make up songs on the keyboard.

  

  Fleur East
  • Up
  • Living
  • Just

• When someone calls you 'gay,' there's not much you can do about that because I am. Whereas, if someone calls you fat, there is something you can do about that.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Gay
  • Fat

• You'll see me on 'Top Chef' someday. My Midwestern hospitality needs an outlet, you know?

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Know
  • Me
  • See

• I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Music
  • Earth
  • Wonder

• Every American, I think, should be able to fill out their taxes on a postcard.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • American
  • Think
  • Taxes

• I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• My parents worked in the film industry, but they both worked behind the camera, so I like to think that I have a really good understanding of how all the parts of the puzzle come together to make a film or TV show.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • Good
  • Together
  • Parents

• We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Kind
  • Wall
  • Greatest

• There are so many aspects to science that I couldn't give up – the rigor, the discoveries, the teaching. The impact that science has on the world around us is something I'm enthralled with. I don't think anyone could ever take that out of me.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • World
  • Science
  • Me

• Right now, musically I'm inspired by everyday people.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • People
  • Inspired
  • Everyday

• .. the publication of Friedrich A. von Hayek's The Road to Serfdom in 1944 is rightly seen as the first shot in the intellectual battle that was to turn the tide in favor of conservatism i.e. non-statist liberalism .

  

  E. J. Dionne
  • Road
  • Battle
  • Intellectual

• I was convinced that luck was a matter of knowing what one wanted and then being willing to work to make the wish come true.

  

  Carlos P. Romulo
  • Wish
  • Matter
  • Luck

• Never do I argue with a man with a desire to hear him say what is wrong, or to expose him and win victory over him. Whenever I face an opponent in debate I silently pray - O Lord, help him so that truth may flow from his heart and on his tongue, and so that if truth is on my side, he may follow me; and if truth be on his side, I may follow him.

  

  Al-Shafi‘i
  • Truth
  • Desire
  • Victory

• Writing, in its physical, graphic form, is an inseparable suturing of the visual and the verbal, the “imagetext” incarnate

  

  W. J. T. Mitchell
  • Writing
  • Form
  • Inseparable

• On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Ambition
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