T. Boone Pickens (Thomas Boone Pickens Jr.) Quotes
I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with 'Highway,' there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended 'Highway' to be the first film that I ever made. Didn't happen.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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I think I am at my best when my hair is short. It's easier to take care of and more of who I am. Women are conditioned to think we need long hair.
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
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The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
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I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.
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I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.
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I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.
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I don't know what to do when I'm not working. I lose my mind if I'm not constantly doing something.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.
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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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I've always wanted to do charity stuff. I'm such a nurturer and love taking care of people.
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Image and appearance tell you little. The inside is bigger than the outside when you have the eyes to see.
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I am very, very proud of my ability as a cook.
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When you have a watch on, it just sets everything off. It's the icing on the cake when it comes to your entire look.
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The person in New York City is showing too little empathy for the Trump voter. The Trump voter is showing too little empathy for the person who's very worried about the refugee ban. They're not spending enough time with each other to have a meaningful conversation.
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People would ask what college are you going to, and I'd say, 'San Diego State.' And they'd say, 'Why?'
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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
