T. Boone Pickens (Thomas Boone Pickens Jr.) Quotes
Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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It's hard for me to talk about Dom right now because I am Dom right now. So it's a really strange exercise to try to reflect on something that I am at the moment. But I guarantee you that when I'm done with the movie and you ask me that question, I'll be able to give you something insightful.
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I love cycling.
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The only person I'd cry if I met would be Beyonce.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
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He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later.
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You win as a team, you lose as a team, you also do so many things together.
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From my experience in working with bureaucrats and politicians, if you are a credible business group, they will definitely help you. At the end of the day, they, too, want development of their constituency, state or country.
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My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my first real acting teacher. Joan was also good friends with my friend Susie Landau Finch, who had first encouraged me to consider acting, so that's how I began studying.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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I don't like people who get into fights about football - or anything else.
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It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.
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The truth is, I'm not body confident.
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Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.
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You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.
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I cannot escape the feeling that I was, at best, a cancer tourist, that my survival means I dabbled.
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At first glance, an alliance of anarchists and government might appear to be somewhat paradoxical. But the formal convergence in Oakland makes explicit the movement's aims: They're anarchists for statism, wild free-spirited youth demanding more and more total government control of every aspect of life - just so long as it respects the fundamental human right to sloth.
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Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.
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I went to work in 1962, and by '64 I was writing all the time, every night and every weekend. It didn't occur to me that, having read nothing and knowing nothing, I was in no position to write a book.
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I'm very awkward when I have time off. I don't know what to do with myself. It's weird not to work.
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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.
