T. Boone Pickens (Thomas Boone Pickens Jr.) Quotes
We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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I don't think I am evangelical in my work.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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There are two types of films - one made by the big-time producers, the other is low budget stuff made by some producers who make films for the heck of it, they complete their films for small amounts, sell it at low costs with almost no publicity.
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Financial literacy is just as important in life as the other basics.
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The truth is that I am in love with Dublin. I think it is the most beautiful town that I have ever seen, mountains at the back and the sea in front, and long roads winding through decaying suburbs and beautiful woods.
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We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
