"The first billion is a helluva lot harder."

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Source : T. Boone Pickens @boonepickens, twitter.com. May 31, 2012.

T. Boone Pickens

#Bad Ass Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Billions Quotes

“I make work that tries to sort of connect with something really, really familiar. I don't try to make work that's original. I try to make work that's quintessential. That's what I mean about the familiar. It operates with stuff that people already know or information that they already have and I try to just use that. Quintessential means like the perfect minimalist sculptor.”
“I learned to play piano on my own and my parents thought "Oh it would be a good thing for you take piano lessons. That's the way you really need to learn to play the piano."”
“In American fiction, belief is like that. Belief as upbringing, belief as social fact, belief as a species of American weirdness: our literary fiction has all of these things. All that is missing is the believer.”
“The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.”
“Nobody had faith in me when I got here except my team. That's what carried me through all the transition problems and adjustments and everything.”
“And occasionally some of the nations that will be partners in this would probably not be, in terms of passing a pure human rights check, have everything going for them that you would like to have.”
“Your tomorrow has no right to complain about your today, as long as your today gives you a bliss, unknown and incomprehensible to both your yesterday, and tomorrow!”
“When I was working with Robert Frank, he told me that there was absolutely no relationship between cinema and photography. I challenge that. Surely what you know as a photographer must impact how you set up your shots.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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