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I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.
HAROLD HAMM
President Obama is riding the wrong horse on energy.
HAROLD HAMM
President Trump will release America's pent-up energy potential, get rid of foreign oil, trash p...
HAROLD HAMM
I love nature. I'm not going to do anything to detract from it.
HAROLD HAMM
I grew up on a farm in Lexington, Oklahoma, a rural community south of Norman. My family moved to En...
HAROLD HAMM
No matter what, you've got to always follow your passion in life and always keep learning.
HAROLD HAMM
It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on start...
HAROLD HAMM
I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father...
HAROLD FEINSTEIN
Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed.
HAROLD FEINSTEIN
I was born in Coney Island. I like to think I fell out of the womb onto the fun park's giant Par...
HAROLD FEINSTEIN
You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; wh...
HAROLD FEINSTEIN
The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't ...
HAROLD FEINSTEIN
Coney Island is and always will be 'the people's playground.' It's a place where peo...
HAROLD FEINSTEIN
When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and ...
HAROLD EVANS
Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and...
HAROLD EVANS
For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.
HAROLD EVANS
I think America has a brilliant future.
HAROLD EVANS
Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with pa...
HAROLD EVANS
The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
HAROLD COFFIN
The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.
HAROLD COFFIN
When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
HAROLD COFFIN
Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
HAROLD COFFIN
In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything a...
HAROLD COFFIN
Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.
HAROLD COFFIN
Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
HAROLD COFFIN
I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes.
HAROLD BUDD
I'm not really a pianist.
HAROLD BUDD
I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
HAROLD BUDD