Picks Quotes

• Mercy Falls was all about rumors, and the rumor on Jack was that he got his short fuse from his dad. I didn't know about that. It seemed like you ought to pick the sort of person you would be, no matter what your parents were like.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dad, Fall, Parent

  Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.28, Scholastic Inc.

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• Pick a movement, pick a revolution and join it.

  Jack Dorsey

  Movement, Revolution

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• I'll hire blacks as long as they can do the cotton-pickin' job.

  Evan Mecham

  Jobs, Long, Black

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• We have to pick and choose between good and a little bit better.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Littles, Bits

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• Pick a goal, make a realistic plan to reach that goal, work through each step of the plan, and repeat.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Mma, Goal, Steps

  Georges St-Pierre (2013). “The Way of the Fight”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• Style is the instrument you can pick back up when you want to regain some of the confidence you've lost.

  Stacy London

  Style, Want, Lost

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• I toned down my accent at school; otherwise, people would pick on me.

  Michelle Ryan

  School, People, Accents

  Interview with Andrew Williams, metro.co.uk. October 26, 2009.

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• I hitchhiked, took trucks 'n' trains - anything that would pick me up. I stopped in Memphis for about six months and they found me and come got me. Stayed about a month an' split again.

  John Lee Hooker

  Pick Me Up, Six, Splits

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• There are times when I feel like I'm a traveling minister. I'm trying to go out and get kids to pick-up yard sale instruments and change the world.

  Dave Grohl

  Kids, Trying, Yards

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• I don't look at myself as a celebrity. People recognize me, but it's all about my music, my songs. It's not like I'm a greater being. I take my kids to school, pick them up, go to the grocery store. I'm a mother, and my kids mean more to me than even being an artist.

  Faith Evans

  Mother, Song, Mean

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• Whereas formerly, before the advent of machinery, the commonest article you could pick up had a life and warmth which gave it individual interest, now everything is turned out to such a perfection of deadness that one is driven to pick up and collect, in sheer desperation, the commonest rubbish still surviving from the earlier periods.

  Harold Speed

  Perfection, Rubbish, Advent

  Harold Speed (2012). “The Practice and Science of Drawing”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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• There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.

  Jairam Ramesh

  Decision, Good Times, Tough

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• The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It's duty.

  Chuck Yeager

  Military, Flying, Use

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• I always make it a point to pick songs on which players really shine.

  John Mayall

  Song, Player, Shining

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• The whole world is a scab. The point is to pick it constructively.

  Peter Beard

  World, Scabs, Whole

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• It's incredibly arrogant to pick and choose which incomprehensible truths we embrace. No one wants to ditch God's plan of redemption [the cross], even though it doesn't make sense to us. Neither should we erase God's revealed plan of punishment because it doesn't sit well with us. As soon as we do this, we are putting God's actions in submission to our own reasoning, which is a ridiculous thing for clay to do.

  Francis Chan

  Punishment, Clay, Arrogant

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2011). “Erasing Hell: What God Said about Eternity, and the Things We've Made Up”, p.88, David C Cook

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• It's not a deliberate thing. It's not like I was rejecting the UK, which is what the papers said. It's just that when you spend a lot of time in your formative years around an accent, you're going to pick it up. I had been living in LA for a bit and that's what happened.

  Joss Stone

  Years, Paper, Accents

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• Things don't always work out the way we hope. You just have to pick yourself up and find a new direction to go in.

  Joelle Charbonneau

  Work Out, Way, Pick Yourself Up

  Joelle Charbonneau (2013). “The Testing Guide”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A very wise dog woman once told me that dogs find owners, not the other way around. They pick you and they choose to stay with you. In that way, they are also giving you the end of their life. The deeper the bond, the harder it is to say good-bye. I know I'd rather have any amount of time with a dog I love and suffer the mourning than not have the time at all.

  Julie Klam

  Wise, Dog, Bye

  Julie Klam (2010). “You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness”, p.67, Penguin

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• And this ain't no place for the weary kind
  This ain't no place to lose your mind
  This ain't no place to fall behind
  Pick up your crazy heart and give it one more try

  Ryan Bingham

  Crazy, Fall, Heart

  Song: The Weary Kind

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• There was definitely a lack of any sort of villain in the Clinton era, which is why when Columbine happened, it was easy to pick on me. My face was around and it made good TV.

  Marilyn Manson

  Tvs, Eras, Faces

  "Freak or unique?". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2003.

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• Some societies are also more optimistic than others: the U.S. and Australia are my two picks Tell a European you think there’s a housing bubble and you’ll have a reasonable discussion. Tell an Australian and you’ll have World War III. Been there, done that!

  Jeremy Grantham

  War, Optimistic, Thinking

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• I do have to pick my priorities. Nobody can do everything.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Priorities, Can Do

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• I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.

  Walter Becker

  Player, Self, Musician

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• I learned American Sign Language in college and seemed to pick it up rather quickly. I really love to sign and wish that I had more friends to sign with.

  Candace Kita

  College, Wish, Sign Language

  Interview with Justin Kaehler, www.ign.com. July 14, 2004.

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