"When you blow away the foam, you get down to the real stuff."

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Source : T. Boone Pickens (2008). “The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America's Energy Future”, p.84, Crown Business

T. Boone Pickens

#Real Quotes #Blow Quotes #Stuff Quotes

“I just want to not be me.”
“Easy-to know that diamonds-are precious, Good-to learn that rubies-have depth, But more-to see that pebbles-are miraculous.”
“She watched the first episode and she was like, 'This is feminism?' And then by the end of the season, she was like, 'This is feminism.' The tone changed completely. She was really psyched about it.”
“I suspect people channel-surf, as they tend to everywhere. But I'm told that we're not much on at the State Department, so we'll have to look into that.”

Source : "PBS NewsHour" with Terence Smith, www.pbs.org. January 31, 2002.
“With every smell, I smell food. With every sight, I see food. I can almost hear food. I want to spade the whole lot through my mouth at Mach 2. Basta!”
“I didn't understand Southland Tales script at all! Is there a single word to describe it? Cacophony? It's celebrity meets ***** meets politics - it's unlike anything I've ever seen in my life. And slapstick humor, communism; I mean, what doesn't it have? It's crazy. I didn't go to Cannes, but I guess the first cut was three and a half hours or something?”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Do you remember when we picketed the White House in 1965?”
“Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument.”

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