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"The North Sea was supposed to run out in the 1980s. Then in the 1990s. And now production is still on-line."
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"If you have tears, prepare to shed them now."
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"When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going."
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"Now, we used to say we put on our tights to put on the world. So I don't think it tarnishes the image at all."
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"So, like I said, I will visit Jeffersonville more often because I now have a little getaway house up there."
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"Now I get to pick and choose exactly what I want to do."
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"Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding."
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"The rich pay more in total taxes now than ever before - ever. It's true. Just like it's true that when the rich are convinced they're going to be taxed more, they spend less. And when the top few percenters don't spend, there goes all your spending, because they account for half of all retail spending."
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"All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity."
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"Old is always fifteen years from now."
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"I have more zits now than I did as a teenager. Stress zits."
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"The Russians are turning east to the Chinese - to the Europeans' surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China would shift from being based in Marx and Lenin to being based in oil and gas."
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"But that's not enough: To maintain energy security, one needs a supply system that provides a buffer against shocks. It needs large, flexible markets. And it's important to acknowledge the fact that the entire energy supply chain needs to be protected."
Energy
"In a couple of years, the Chinese will be seen as regular participants in international industry. Their companies have to report to shareholders as well as to the Chinese authorities. They need to make money, they have to be efficient."
Money
"Clearly, the Chinese need the resources, but I don't think they want to clash with the industrial world which happens to be the market for their goods."
Want
"The other are the strategic, so-called strategic stocks that the United States and the other Western industrial countries have, which could put in as much as four million barrels a day of oil into the market pretty quickly."
Nation
"But eventually it's a question of access: Getting access to fields is on top of the oil companies' agenda. We see a substantial build-up of supply occurring over the coming years."
Oil
"People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4,000 meters."
Technology
"First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas."
People
"Even Silicon Valley investors have put well over a $1 billion in new energy technologies."
Energy
"We are living in a different world now. You can see it everywhere in international relations: It was noteworthy that, after his visit to Washington, the Chinese president's next stop was Saudi Arabia."
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