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• I think that poetry is an act of celebration, that anytime you're writing a poem, it means that you're celebrating something, even if it's a sad poem, if it's an angry poem, a political poem or anything at all. The fact that you're taking the time and energy to pick up this thing and hold it to the light, and say, "Let's take some time to consider this," means that you've deemed it worthy enough to spend time on - which, in my opinion, is celebrating.

  Sarah Kay

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

  Source: saseye.com

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• I'm always looking for opportunities, even when they're not offered to me. I will have no hesitation to pick up the phone and call a director or call a writer.

  Hilary Swank

  Opportunity, Phones, Directors

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Nothing funny about happy people. I don't know, you just look at a situation or a life, and you can kind of pick up the areas of conflict and delve in there, because that's where the most story is. If someone's happily married for 20 years, that's great, but it's not that funny.

  Kate Beaton

  Years, People, Looks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Everybody has their favorite character.That's the only way I pick, whatever is going on in society, whatever I think folks will laugh at that's what I come up with.

  Jeff Dunham

  Character, Thinking, Laughing

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• A kid that picks up a record, he doesn't need to know anything other than the music and have it in his or her headphones. They're getting ideas directly, it's like someone whispering in their ear. That's such a personal way to receive information.

  Conor Oberst

  Kids, Ideas, Needs

  "Desaparecidos' Conor Oberst: We're perfectly prepared for people to hate what we're saying". Interview with Jessica Goodman, ew.com. July 7, 2015.

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• Judge not the preacher; for he is thy judge:
  If thou mislike him, thou conceiv'st him not.
  God calleth preaching folly. Do not grudge
  To pick out treasures from an earthen pot.
  The worst speak something good. If all want sense,
  God takes a text, and preaches patience.

  George Herbert

  Judging, Treasure, Want

  'The Church Porch' (1633) st. 72

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• A good bargaine is a pick-purse.
  [A good bargain is a pick-purse.]

  George Herbert

  Purses, Bargains

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• When, to gratify a private appetite, it is once resolved upon that an ignorant and helpless creature shall be sacrificed, it is an easy matter to pick up sticks enough from any thicket where it has strayed, to make a fire to offer it up with.

  Laurence Sterne

  Fire, Ignorant, Matter

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• If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think of it, theoretically or philosophically. It's really absurd to make an image, like a human image, with paint, today.

  Willem de Kooning

  Thinking, Noses, Today

  Barbara Hess, Willem De Kooning (2004). “Willem de Kooning, 1904-1997: Content as a Glimpse”, p.33, Taschen

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• The job of a friend is not to decide what should be done, not to run interference or pick up the slack. The job of a friend is to understand, and to supply energy and hope, and in doing so to keep those they value on their feet a little longer, so that they can fight another round and grow strong in themselves.

  Merle Shain

  Friends, Running, Strong

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• I think we ought to have a new rule: You can ask two questions, and then we can pick the one we want to answer.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Thinking, Two, Answers

  Donald Rumsfeld, United States. Dept. of Defense. Historical Office (2001). “Public statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• The young man who wants to marry happily should pick out a good mother and marry one of her daughters - any one will do.

  J. Ogden Armour

  Marriage, Daughter, Mother

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• I think diseases have no eyes. They pick with a dizzy finger anyone, just anyone.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Eye, Thinking, Disease

  Sandra Cisneros (2013). “The House on Mango Street”, p.70, Vintage

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• It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.

  Cory Doctorow

  Careers

  Cory Doctorow (2006). “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town”, p.147, Macmillan

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• I like to remind people what radical means -- 'at the root of things.' It shouldn't be considered a pejorative. There isn't a great name out of history you can pick who wasn't 'radical.

  Sonia Johnson

  Mean, Names, Roots

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• The more people I meet, the farther out of my own little world I go, the more I see that we are all alike. And there isn't one of us who can afford to pick up the rock in the glass house.

  Susan Powter

  Glasses, Rocks, People

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• All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest, most surprising and wild imagination is not as rich, wild and surprising as reality. The task of the poet is to pick singular threads from this dense, colorful fabric.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Reality, Agreement, Wild Imagination

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• Most of the earth's inhabitants work to get by. They work because they have to. They didn't pick this or that kind of job out of passion; the circumstances of their lives did the choosing for them. Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring - this is one of the harshest human miseries. And there's no sign that coming centuries will produce any changes for the better as far as this goes.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Jobs, Passion, Earth

  "The Poet and the World". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 07, 1996.

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• A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn.

  Gene Tierney

  Thinking, Rose, Careless

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• You are lucky in life if you have the right heroes. I advise all of you, to the extent you can, to pick out a few heroes

  Warren Buffett

  Hero, Lucky, Advise

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• The world has always been this way. I am sure in the mystery world of Egypt, ancient Atlantis, you pick a cosmos - There is always somebody on your case.

  Frederick Lenz

  Egypt, Cosmos, World

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• Paint pictures with sound. First, find your white-the deepest, roundest sound you can play on the guitar. Then, find your black-which is the most extreme tonal difference from white you can play. Now, just pick the note where you've got white, pick it where you've got black, and then find all those colors in between. Get those colors down, and you'll be able to express almost any emotion on the guitar.?

  Les Paul

  Music, Guitar, Color

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• I’ve often said that global climate change is an issue where no one has the luxury of being “half-pregnant.” You either are or you aren’t. And so it is with climate change. You either understand and accept the science – or you don’t. Folks this isn’t a cafeteria where you can pick and choose and accept the science that tells us what is happening, but then reject the science that warns us what will happen.

  John F. Kerry

  Luxury, Issues, Climate

  John F. Kerry's Speech at the COP15 climate conference in Copenhagen, archive.boston.com. December 16, 2009.

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• We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys.

  Owen Feltham

  Men, Joy, Sorrow

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• I think people are just haters. When they see people doing well, some people, if there's something wrong, they'll pick at that.

  Alana Blanchard

  Thinking, People, Wells

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