T. Boone Pickens (Thomas Boone Pickens Jr.) Quotes
When you look at a commodities market you need hedgers and speculators. If you don't have one, you don't have a market. That's how it works.
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No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.
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I like a man who looks like a bad boy but knows how to treat a woman like a queen.
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I had long hair when I was a teenager.
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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Koran says whoever believes in God in the last day shall be saved. It is a religion whose very name, Islam, comes from the word Shalom, which means peace. It's about establishing peace. We greet each other with peace be upon you, which the Jews do in greeting each other.
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When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.
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The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.
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All four majors are definitely a priority.
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A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.
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Poland is much more advanced than Romania in structural reforms.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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I think it's just important to be able to keep things to myself and to have these moments that can't be - where I don't put them out and feel like they could be misunderstood, you know?
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I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.
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Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.
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The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.
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You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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There was a time when caddies couldn't wear shorts.
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I love drag queens... they perform me better than I ever could myself.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!'
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I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.
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One thing I learned working at magazines was that if you couldn't get people to look at a page or a cover, then you were fired. It was all about how you create arresting works, and by arresting I mean stop people, even for a nano-second.
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When you look at a commodities market you need hedgers and speculators. If you don't have one, you don't have a market. That's how it works.
