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" I've been married over 50 years of my life. "
T. Boone Pickens
Over
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My Life
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" Big Oil is a club, and they'll do everything to keep me out. "
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" I think I have more patience now than I did in the past. "
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" Fundamentals make the market. "
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" To me, emails are a little bit frustrating. I think that the telephone is much preferred because you get the sound of the voice and the interest and everything else you can't see in an email. "
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" I don't think for a minute we went to Iraq for oil. It just so happened that it had oil. But I think we'll come out of the Iraqi situation with a call on their oil at market price. "
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" I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours. "
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" Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours. "
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" I never did anything dishonest. "
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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. "
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" Never Googled myself. I use a computer for market quotes and news, but I've never Googled myself. But I have visited their headquarters. "
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" The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth. "
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" I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things. "
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" Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource. "
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Environmental
Better
" We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us. "
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Us
Up
" I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail. "
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Believe
Control
" You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level. "
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You
Compete
" In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us. "
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Energy
America
" I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer. "
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Had
Problem
Life
" On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12. "
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Scale
Ambition
" If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team. "
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You
Competitive
Get
" Far too many executives have become more concerned with the 'four P's' - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders. "
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Four
Far
Become
" There's no question that tar sands in Canada are probably the largest source of oil available to the U.S. over a long period of time. There's as much oil in the tar sands probably as there is in Saudi Arabia. The problem is, there's a huge capital requirement to develop that. "
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Long
Time
Problem
" I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat. "
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Family
Want
" I don't like stock buybacks. I think if a company has the money to buy their stock back, then they should take that and increase the dividends. Send it back to the stockholder. Let them invest their money again from the dividends. "
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" Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all. "
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You
Try
" I've got an opinion on everything. "
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Opinion
Got
Everything
" If somebody I don't like gets in the crosshairs, I pull the trigger. But I don't hunt for them. "
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Pull
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" I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis. "
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Mother
Analysis
Gift
" It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground. "
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New
Ground
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