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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If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
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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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This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
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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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Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
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I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.
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You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.
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Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them.
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When I attended the Berkeley Poetry Conference in 1965, I was very inspired. The collaboration of many poets from these alternative traditions - though there were not enough women - who were very much more influenced by, say, Asian forms or by Mantra or by thinking politically through their work in deeper ways really stuck with me.
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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.
