T. Boone Pickens (Thomas Boone Pickens Jr.) Quotes
Don't get the idea that I've turned green. My business is making money, and I think this is going to make a lot of money.
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.
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There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.
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What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
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The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
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As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.
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A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.
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I feel completely fortunate to have this outlet for something I don't really feel like I have a choice in, to make music. I've got to make it.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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The great thing about albums is it gives you a lot of choices, and we can all say that the album business is dead, but watch Taylor Swift. I don't think it's dead. I just think we've got to hit on the energies that make people want to collect albums.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.
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It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
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The ethics of journalism are one thing. Another thing is the ethics of business.
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I spent a lot of money and time at pizza places. Golf and Stuff in Ventura, right off the 101, was my hangout. Skating Plus, right behind it, always had a good selection of games. That was the place to be when you were from Oxnard back in the '80s.
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Don't get the idea that I've turned green. My business is making money, and I think this is going to make a lot of money.
