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• Why not pick up the new full-length motion picture at the corner drugstore and then run it through one's
  home TV receiver?

  Jack Gould

  Running, Home, Tvs

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• The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.

  Jeff Goodell

  Air, Water, Fossils

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• New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who also happens to be the 10th richest person in America, with a personal fortune of some $18 billion, likes to pick a fight - especially fights where the line between good and evil is particularly stark.

  Jeff Goodell

  New York, Fighting, Cities

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• God's got a lot of explaining to do. Of course, God never explains. When life breaks your heart, you're just supposed to pick up the pieces and start all over, I guess.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Heart, Pieces, Break

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• Because here's the thing about a book: when you pick up a story, you put down your own.

  Holly Smale

  Book, Stories

  Holly Smale (2015). “All That Glitters (Geek Girl, Book 4)”, p.20, HarperCollins UK

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• A major celebrity is a major brand, and major brands pick very critically what other brands they're going to associate with. So an A-list celebrity usually picks an A-list brand.

  Adam Braun

  Lists, Brands, Associates

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• The only real reason for self-referencing is the fun factor. It's fun for the writer, getting little peeks at what old characters might be up to. And it's fun for readers to spot a familiar face, or pick up on a made-up book title or something from an earlier story. I don't know that it does -- or even should -- contribute to the story in hand being any better than it would have been without it.

  Charles de Lint

  Fun, Real, Book

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• I like to write. Sometimes I'm afraid that I like it too much because when I get into work I don't want to leave it. As a result I'll go for days and days without leaving the house or wherever I happen to be. I'll go out long enough to get papers and pick up some food and that's it. It's strange, but instead of hating writing I love it too much.

  Harper Lee

  Hate, Writing, Long

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• The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and a sentence in a volume, and tell you it is wrong. The title of Ultra-Crepidarian critics has been given to a variety of this species.

  William Hazlitt

  Titles, Lasts, Catchers

  William Hazlitt (1822). “Table-talk: Or, Original Essays”, p.143

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• How would you know? Everything’s like sex. It’s the universal metaphor. To pick a lock, let me guess, you have to go slow at first, but then you have to pull off some fancy moves, and you have to stay concentrated, and you have to stick something in something, right?

  Ned Vizzini

  Sex, Moving, Fancy

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• A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It’s almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.

  Alain de Botton

  Matter, Moments, Significant

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• Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune ties his hand, then ... pick out his brains.

  Bill Vaughan

  Power, Hands, Ties

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• I once stopped to pick up a girl, and then there was this creepy-looking guy standing behind the bushes waiting to jump out and get in, too. So I just quickly drove away.

  Larry David

  Girl, Guy, Waiting

  "Hitching a Ride With Larry David". Interview with Paul Samuel Dolman, www.vulture.com. May 26, 2013.

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• Software unification. So that I no longer care what computing device I pick up, whether it's a laptop or desktop, whether it's one I own or one in a public place, whether it has a small screen or a large screen.

  David Gelernter

  Laptops, Care, Unification

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• If I ever get some free time I end up thinking about what to make next. I don't pick up a guitar and start playing the songs I already know; I immediately try to write a riff.

  Chaz Bundick

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have the motto that says, 'Whatever you see in your closet that you like, pick it and wear it.' It's not just your closet, but just your life. Whatever catches your eye. Pick it.

  Willow Smith

  Eye, Motto, Closets

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

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• I went home one afternoon to pick up a script without bothering to change, and a half an hour later the Beverly Hills Police were at my door because a neighbor had reported a suspicious stranger lurking around Ross Martin's house. I had to peel off my beard to prove who I was.

  Ross Martin

  Home, Doors, House

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

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• Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow's grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.

  O. Henry

  Love, Girl, Heart

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.408, Delphi Classics

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• Sometimes I pick up a book and I say: Well, so you've written it first, have you? Good for you. O.K., then I won't have to write it.

  Doris Lessing

  Book, Writing, Firsts

  Doris May Lessing (1981). “The Golden Notebook”, Bantam

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• How many a thing which we cast to the ground, When others pick it up, becomes a gem!

  George Meredith

  Casts, Gems

  George Meredith (1862). “Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside: With Poems and Ballads”, p.73

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• I wish the iPhone people would design one that's black and has two pieces, and it plugs into the wall and you can pick one piece up and talk into it. I tell you, the whole time I had one of those old-fashioned plug-in phones, not once did I misplace it.

  David Letterman

  Wall, Two, Iphone

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• Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter.

  Tom Robbins

  Lust, Sin, Seven

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.112, Bantam

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• A man picks a wife about the same way an apple picks a farmer.

  Evan Esar

  Men, Apples, Wife

  Evan Esar (1978). “The Comic Encyclopedia: A Library of the Literature and History of Humor Containing Thousands of Gags, Sayings, and Stories”, Doubleday Books

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• I'd play whenever I could get my hands on an electric guitar; I was trying to pick up rock'n'roll riffs and electric blues - the latest Muddy Waters. I'd spend hours and hours on the same track, back again, and back again.

  Keith Richards

  Rocks, Guitar, Hands

  "The Guitar Handbook". Book by Alastair M. Crawford, Isaac Guillory, and Ralph Denyer, 1982.

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• Professional investment may be likened to those newspaper competitions in which the competitors have to pick out the six prettiest faces from a hundred photographs, the prize being awarded to the competitor whose choice most nearly corresponds to the average preferences of the competitors as a whole.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Average, Choices, Competition

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.140, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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