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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. "
T. Boone Pickens
See
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" I think I have more patience now than I did in the past. "
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" I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame. "
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" Natural gas is the best transportation fuel. It's better than gasoline or diesel. It's cleaner, it's cheaper, and it's domestic. Natural gas is 97 percent domestic fuel, North America. "
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" 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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" On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12. "
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