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• I definitely like to stay active. Im a huge fan of the NBA and the sport of basketball. I love to play pick-up games in Brooklyn where I live.

  Brendan Dooling

  Basketball, Sports, Nba

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• I decided to pick the diet that I thought would maximize my chances of long-term survival.

  Al Gore

  Long, Survival, Chance

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• Astronauts cannot pick their nicknames and can only get their nicknames from other astronauts. Any astronaut who tries to give himself a cool nickname will regret it by getting just the opposite from his astronaut friends.

  Michael J. Massimino

  Regret, Opposites, Giving

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• There may be men who act without understanding why. I do not. To listen much, pick out the good and follow it; to see much and ponder it: this comes next to understanding.

  Confucius

  Men, Understanding, May

  Confucius (1909). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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• Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Order, Neighbor

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• But to make the intangible tangible, to pick the emotion out of the air and make it true for others, is both the blessing and the curse of the writer, for the thing between book covers is never as beautiful as the thing he imagined.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Beautiful, Book, Blessing

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• Suffering makes you deep. Travel makes you broad. In case I get my pick, I'd rather travel.

  Judith Viorst

  Travel, Suffering, Broads

  Judith Viorst (1987). “Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.”, Fireside

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• In a wood they call the Rouge Bouquet,
  There is a new-made grave today,
  Built by never a spade nor pick,
  Yet covered with earth ten meteres thick.
  There lie many fighting men.
  Dead in their youthful prime.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Lying, Fighting, Men

  Joyce Kilmer (1918). “Joyce Kilmer”

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• In Africa, when you pick up a book worth reading, out of the deadly consignments which good ships are always being made to carry out all the way from Europe, you read it as an author would like his book to be read, praying to God that he may have it in him to go on as beautifully as he has begun. Your mind runs, transported, upon a fresh deep green track.

  Isak Dinesen

  Running, Book, Reading

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• Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Hero, Today, Bows

  Natalie Clifford Barney (1992). “Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.126, NYU Press

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• Mid the sharp, short emerald wheat, scarce risen three fingers well,
  The wild tulip at the end of its tube, blows out its great red bell,
  Like a thin clear bubble of blood, for the children to pick and sell.

  Robert Browning

  Children, Blow, Blood

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.145, Pearson Education

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• in my experience one thing you don't learn from is anything anyone set up to be a lesson; what you are to know you pick up as you go along.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Learning, Growth, Lessons

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• There are many times where a woman would gladly drop her husband if she did not feel morally certain that some other woman would come right along and pick him up.

  Helen Rowland

  Husband, Certain, Feels

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.58, Lulu.com

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• As anyone who has received or dispensed psychotherapy knows, it's a profession whose mainspring is love. Nearly everyone who visits a therapist has a love disorder of one sort or another, and each has a story to tell - of love lost or denied, love twisted or betrayed, love perverted or shackled to violence. Broken attachments litter the office floors like pick-up sticks. People appear with frayed seams and spilling pockets.

  Diane Ackerman

  Lost Love, Attachment, People

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.136, Vintage

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• I don't grasp things this early in the day. I mean, I hear voices, all right, but I can't pick out the verbs.

  Jean Kerr

  Morning, Mean, Voice

  Jean Kerr (1965). “Mary, Mary”, p.66, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.

  Erica Jong

  Mean, Pockets, Want

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• For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

  Agnes Repplier

  Reading, Character, Incidents

  Agnes Repplier (1895). “Essays in Miniature”

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• We don't believe it's possible to protect digital content. What's new is this amazingly efficient distribution system for stolen property called the Internet-- and no one's gonna shut down the Internet. And it only takes one stolen copy to be on the Internet. And the way we expressed it to them is: Pick one lock--open every door. It only takes one person to pick a lock. Worst case: Somebody just takes the analog outputs of their CD player and rerecords it-- puts it on the Internet. You'll never stop that. So what you have to do is compete with it.

  Steve Jobs

  Believe, Player, Cds

  As quoted in "Steve Jobs: The Rolling Stone Interview" in Rolling Stone, December 3, 2003.

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• the uncandid censurer always picks out the worst man of a class, and then confidently produces him as being a fair specimen of it.

  Hannah More

  Men, Class, Discrimination

  Hannah More (1835). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.268

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• Gipsies, who every ill can cure,
  Except the ill of being poor
  Who charms 'gainst love and agues sell,
  Who can in hen-roost set a spell,
  Prepar'd by arts, to them best known
  To catch all feet except their own,
  Who, as to fortune, can unlock it,
  As easily as pick a pocket.

  Charles Churchill

  Art, Feet, Hens

  Charles Churchill, “The Ghost - Book I”

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• Our efforts will only be effective if ordinary citizens in other countries have confidence that the United States respects their privacy too. And the leaders of our close friends and allies deserve to know that if I want to learn what they think about an issue, I will pick up the phone and call them, rather than turning to surveillance.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Thinking, Phones

  President Obama’s speech on NSA reforms, www.washingtonpost.com. January 17, 2014.

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• Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.

  Betty Ford

  Food, Alcohol, Cooking

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• My thought is, if you're a book lover, you're going to enjoy winning a book even if it's not something you'd ordinarily pick up on your own. It's a chance to expand your horizons a little.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Book, Winning, Horizon

  "Patrick Rothfuss on his charitable fans, priorities, and kissing a llama". Interview with Caitlin PenzeyMoog, www.avclub.com. November 26, 2014.

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• The system knows how to cherry pick black people. It's like affirmative action - once a year, one is recognized. But what has to occur is self-emergence so if they ignore you, you don't have to disappear.

  Haile Gerima

  Self, Years, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If you pay attention to good critics, you have to listen to the bad. So you have to ignore them all really. You can't just cherry pick the glowing ones.

  Ricky Gervais

  Glowing, Attention, Pay

  "Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant ('The Ricky Gervais Show')". Interview with Alex Fletcher, www.digitalspy.com. April 15, 2010.

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