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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In Zurich, in a cafe overlooking the Limmat, I ate butter-drenched white asparagus pulled from the ground that morning; it had the aftertaste of champagne. I've been able to appreciate epic meals in San Francisco, New Orleans, Berlin, Paris, Las Vegas.
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I remember working with Agyness Deyn. At the time, she was the only one who had short hair as a model. I remember being so envious of her because we would all be getting our hair pulled for two hours backstage, and she was getting a new haircut almost every other show.
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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
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If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.
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We honor ambition, we reward greed, we celebrate materialism, we worship acquisitiveness, we commercialize art, we cherish success and then we bark at the young about the gentle arts of the spirit. The kids know that if we really valued learning, we would pay our teachers what we pay our lawyers and stockbrokers. If we valued art, we would not measure it by its capacity to produce profits. If we regarded literature as important, we would remove it from the celebrity sweepstakes and spend a little money on our libraries.
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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
