Picks Quotes - Page 27

• On my days off I pick up our chicken's eggs. My wife and I have five chickens called The Spice Girls. Five lovely chicks. And no, we won't be eating any of them for Christmas dinner.

  John Nettles

  Girl, Eggs, Wife

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I know who I want to fight, but I don't pick my opponents; I leave it up to my team. They make those kinds of decisions. My job is to fight and win.

  Leo Santa Cruz

  Jobs, Team, Fighting

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• What sparked my interest in the combat sports in general was my older brother. I guess older brothers are supposed to pick on their young brothers, but mine took it to a whole new level. He broke my collarbone, broke my rib, and knocked my teeth out.

  Jake Hecht

  Sports, Brother, Teeth

  Interview with Garrett Derr, bleacherreport.com. June 8, 2012.

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• You'll go into a fancy hotel and you'll hear this track where someone has sampled 30 seconds of a really good song. Your ear picks it up and you get excited but then it goes into some monotone thing. The Buddha Bar stuff annoys me. I don't need to be on a beach and hear this stuff through little speakers, but people think it creates a "cool vibe".

  Stephen Dewaele

  Song, Beach, Thinking

  "Soulwax/2manyDJs". Interview with Kevin EG Perry, kevinegperry.com. January 5, 2012.

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• If I ever wanted to pick someone's brain, like Larry David would obviously be the most relevant.

  Steve Dildarian

  Brain, Relevant, Wanted

  "HitFix Interview: ‘The Life and Times of Tim’ creator Steve Dildarian". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. February 17, 2010.

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• I'm not a method actor, I don't write my character's history or all those kinds of things. I'm more about the 90 percent of the brain that is subconscious. I like to just pick certain pieces, let it soak in, and then let it kind of emerge out.

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Writing, Character, Brain

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In the U.S., I think there is an ideology of not telling kids what to do. Nobody to tell you who to marry, not tell you what job to pick. You're your own person. You have the freedom to choose, including the freedom to fail in magnificent ways. And I think that's the big difference. In other countries there is basically a social norm about saving that is passed from generation to generation. In the U.S. there isn't.

  Dan Ariely

  Country, Jobs, Kids

  The Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• Somehow, something is always suffering. Someone is always losing out somehow. If you pick one kid up, you're not picking the other one up. You just try to minimize those small let-downs because, in a way, life is a series of let-downs from everyone, all the time. We don't mean it, but it happens. So, I just try to minimize that and spread them wide.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Mean, Kids, Suffering

  Source: collider.com

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• Men are expendable; women and children are not. A tribe or a nation can lose a high percentage of its men and still pick up the pieces and go on ... as long as the women and children are saved.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Children, Men, Long

  "The Pragmatics of Patriotism". Address at the U.S. Naval Academy, April 5, 1973.

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• Over the years, I've found one rule. It is the only one I give on those occasions when I talk about writing. A simple rule. If you tell yourself you are going to be at your desk tomorrow, you are by that declaration asking your unconscious to prepare the material. You are, in effect, contracting to pick up such valuables at a given time. Count on me, you are saying to a few forces below: I will be there to write.

  Norman Mailer

  Writing, Simple, Years

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• No one wants to see a hero have to pick up his cane to hit someone, but I'm still quite fit enough to fake it.

  Harrison Ford

  Hero, Fake, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The sense of it may come with watching a flock of cedar waxwings eating wild grapes in the top of the woods on a November afternoon. Everything they do is leisurely. They pick the grapes with a curious deliberation, comb their feathers, converse in high windy whistles. Now and then one will fly out and back in a sort of dancing flight full of whimsical flutters and turns. They are like farmers loafing in their own fields on Sunday. Though they have no Sundays, their days are full of sabbaths.

  Wendell Berry

  Sunday, Dancing, Cedars

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• What I didn't do was pick one thing and keep saying it over and over again, so I could have gotten credit for it.

  Mario Cuomo

  Credit, One Thing

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• The truth is, the older you get, the less variety of parts you are offered. If you're a star and you've spent most of your career being able to take your pick of the litter, you notice when the offers start to diminish. You're too old to play leads, so you're offered the supporting role - but many stars don't want to make that transition. They see it as a sign of symbolic impotence. And that the audience will no longer regard them as a star. I love acting, and I'm not going to determine what I do based on what I fear other people might think. I do what I want to do.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Stars, Thinking, Careers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Let us pick up again these lost strands and weave them again into the fabric of America, sort out the music from the sounds and again respond to the trumpet and the steady drum.

  Eugene McCarthy

  America, Sound, Fabric

  1967 Speech to Conference of Concerned Democrats, 2 Dec.

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• My job is to evaluate the field, pick the guy that I think is most open and make a good throw.

  Tom Brady

  Jobs, Thinking, Guy

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• I don't regret not coming out early. A lot of people felt that I could have been a lottery pick, but we'll never know.

  Michael Finley

  Regret, People, Coming Out

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• The only justification for looking down on anyone is that you're going to stop and pick them up.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Justification, Looking Down

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• There is no safety in hiding. Like my brothers before me, I pick up a fallen standard. Sustained by the memory of our priceless years together, I shall try to carry forward that special commitment to justice, excellence and courage that distinguished their lives.

  Edward Kennedy

  Brother, Memories, Commitment

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• I don't think I'm one of those guys who won't pick up a racket for three years...I love hitting tennis balls.

  Andy Roddick

  Thinking, Years, Tennis

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• I always said if I had to pick one Grand Slam to win, it would be the U.S. Open.

  Andy Roddick

  Winning, Would Be, Slam

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• That's why I've gotten so much experience at my age. You have three teachers next to you every game, and if I'm not playing, I'm watching baseball. You pick up little things here and there.

  Adrian Gonzalez

  Baseball, Teacher, Games

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• I just want to live like a full-time tourist, to show up at the airport, pick a destination, walk up to the counter and say, 'Do you have any first-class seats?'

  Edgerrin James

  Airports, Class, Tourists

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• I've taken my bumps and bruises, but you've got to be willing to get knocked down and pick yourself up. You can't get discouraged. You can't lose sight of what your goals are.

  Jermaine O'Neal

  Taken, Sight, Goal

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• If I had stayed with football in college, I probably would have been a first-round pick.

  Antonio Gates

  Football, College, Firsts

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