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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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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Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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God only made one thing in this world that's perfect - and that's my boxing record.
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Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.
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Respect goes a long way when you carry yourself a certain way and show manners when you first meet someone. If you do that, then it's hard for somebody not to like you.
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The harder you work, the luckier you get.
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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.
