T. Boone Pickens Quotes

I don't go cheap on anything, but I'm not a shopper. If I want something, I look at it, decide what it is, but it will usually be the best product. I've got a pair of loafers that I still wear that I got in 1957.

T. Boone Pickens

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'The Blade Itself' was my first book. Probably I should've tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided to begin with Everest.

Joe Abercrombie

BookShortFirstReasonBeginTried

I take my work seriously but I can't take myself too seriously. I'm in such a crazy privileged position.

Michael Fassbender

WorkMyselfCrazySeriouslyPosition

Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living.

Stephen LaBerge

ScienceSleepResearchYouDream

Financial inclusion matters not only because it promotes growth, but because it helps ensure prosperity is widely shared. Access to financial services plays a critical role in lifting people out of poverty, in empowering women, and in helping governments deliver services to their people.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

GrowthWomenPeopleFinancialOut

I'm not good at very many things. The stuff I'm good at tends to be the stuff that people know me for.

Trip Lee

GoodPeopleMeKnowThingsStuff

I don't think about Yauch in the form of his death. I think about him in the form of his life. He was like my closest older brother. There's just so much that we lived through together.

Mike D

LifeTogetherDeathBrotherThink

I have come a long way and learnt a lot. I read this quote about a year ago: 'Happiness must not be pursued; it must ensue.' It's made me realise that just being married again or something like that won't make me happy; the happiness ensues from how we live our lives.

Lucy Davis

LiveHappinessHappyMeYearLong

After a year, the aromatics in an olive oil are gone. Sometimes the bottles on the shelf in the supermarket are there a lot longer than you are.

Jose Andres

YearYouSometimesOilGoneOlive

I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for.

Jon Hamm

PowerTeacherRespectGreatMe

I hope I give girls an opportunity to realize that they can swim and go to school at the same time. It's not to be given up once they get out of high school. They can continue doing it for the rest of their lives.

Debbie Meyer

OpportunityHopeTimeSchoolRest

Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing.

Christine McVie

WritingLearnFloatingRoomAnything

Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon.

Compay Segundo

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