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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I think there's a mystery to drawing - to the weight of the lines. The sweep of a line around a corner to create an effect that someone is moving.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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There's no easy time to lose a parent.
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Breaking down barriers is tough. Many companies make the mistake of dismissing diversity early on, only to realize later how foundational it is to their success or failure.
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Health is certainly extremely important, and we've done a number of things at Facebook to help improve global health and work in that area, and I am excited to do more there, too. But the reality is that it's not an either-or. People need to be healthy and be able to have the Internet as a backbone to connect them to the whole economy.
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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
