T. Boone Pickens (Thomas Boone Pickens Jr.) Quotes
The older I get, the more I see a straight path where I want to go. If you're going to hunt elephants, don't get off the trail for a rabbit.T. Boone Pickens
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If I can still have Hollywood and a piece of Bollywood, I will take it.
Nargis Fakhri -
I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse.
Washed Out -
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
Edmund Burke -
We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
Mahmoud Abbas -
It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.
Barbara Corcoran -
I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
Ed Asner
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
Vanity -
I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
Frances McDormand -
I'd like to work with Bjork if I could get in the studio with her. We could probably travel to a different planet, you know what I'm saying?
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr. -
When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
Samuel Johnson -
I'd say when it comes to being who you are, just don't be afraid to try things.
Kat Graham -
If I do decide to review a product, I sometimes negotiate with a company the timing of the review but never its outcome or tone. I sometimes strive to be the first to publish a review, but I never promise a good review in exchange for that timing.
Walt Mossberg
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I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.
Sam Raimi -
I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'
Dan Stevens -
The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.
Walter Winchell -
The question I ask myself when adapting a book is how do I be true to the spirit and soul of the character? How would I describe this character in my medium? If you asked one person to do a painting of something and another to create a sculpture of it, you'll never ask, 'Why doesn't the painting look like the sculpture?'
Gavin Hood -
Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.
Ingrid Newkirk -
Open rehearsals reach people who might not otherwise hear the Philharmonic - people on fixed incomes, people who can't move easily at night, students.
Zubin Mehta
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He had almost yielded, but not quite. He had not consented. It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
I just couldn't believe that the police would fire tear gas into what had been a peaceful protest. I was running around, face burning, and nothing I saw looked like America to me.
DeRay Mckesson -
It's really important to me that the music that I release is true to me and important to me.
Brynn Cartelli -
I wish we had more [Dwight] Eisenhower Republicans in this [Donald]Trump cabinet.
E. J. Dionne -
Where fashion in clothes, bodily adornment, and music are concerned, it is the underclass that increasingly sets the pace. Never before has there been so much downward cultural aspiration.
Anthony Daniels -
The older I get, the more I see a straight path where I want to go. If you're going to hunt elephants, don't get off the trail for a rabbit.
T. Boone Pickens