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I know society these days, I know people are wanting to find everything they can to pick things apart, but I have to write from my heart and my experiences, and I fully own them. Those are mine to share.
If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes.
If you worry less about what people think of you, you can pick up an astonishing amount of information about them. You no longer leave conversations wondering what just happened. Other people’s minds and motives are finally revealed.
My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.
The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.
My ex-husband and I, even though we’re not together, we are 100 percent together in raising our kid. We communicate a lot and where I drop the ball and need him to pick it up or vice versa, he’s there.
One of the most interesting things that I’m seeing of the Trump picks is such a heavy business and financial focus. I can’t help but feel like this is going to throw a lot of policy weight and details back to Congress, because these are not people who have a lot of experience drafting legislation.
Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close, and its words represent many months if not many years, of one man’s solitude, so that with each word one reads in a book one might say to himself that he is confronting a particle of that solitude
Of course, they (i. e., demons) had always been observed with some regularity, but that could usually be ascribed to an overabundance of piety or wine or imagination. Take your pick.
Our government needs to adopt a pro-market agenda that doesn’t pick winners and losers, but it invites competition and it levels the playing field for everyone.
I hate to say it because I think people are risk averse these days more than ever. Before they even pick up the phone, they know what the picture’s going to be. So there’s a certain comfort in that, a certain security that they can lay out the cover of the magazine and kind of know what it’s going to be.
The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows politicians to pick winners and losers, and to provide favors in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions and loopholes. It simplifies the code dramatically: 9% business flat tax, 9% personal flat tax, 9% sales tax.
I don’t think I’ve got the expertise with which to nit-pick, and I freely admit that my motivation to support charities has been emotional, rather than as a result of being particularly well informed as to how the money is used.
We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment.
Being the number one pick was a great opportunity and meant a lot to me.
I’m not in a rush to do anything. And I wouldn’t say I pick and choose. When it comes to producers picking people for roles I don’t think it’s between me and Tom Cruise, do you know what I mean?
The thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.
What?” I ask. “I’m developing a theory.” “And it is?” She picks up her hamburger, grins, and says, “That you have a death wish.
I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.
At one point, I didn’t get out of bed for, I think, three months, and I went down to the bottom of the hill one day and I had to call somebody to get me to come back up – come pick me up because I couldn’t physically walk up the hill.
If I’m not comfortable in my own skin or confident in who I am, then I’m going to pick parts based on how people are going to view them, not based on what I find challenging or entertaining.
I think my thing is that I try and pick up on things that other people have maybe not picked up on.
I’m not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn’t come into it.
If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he’ll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.
Maybe if I didn’t pick up that one person, I wouldn’t have picked up forty-two thousand.
I don’t go out and pick fights.
Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up a novel.
I’m old-school. I want to be there to drop off my daughter at school and pick her up.
Last I checked, Bill Gates was worth $50 billion. If the average employed adult, who is walking in a hurry, will pick up a quarter from the sidewalk, but not a dime, then the corresponding amount of money given their relative wealth that Bill Gates would ignore if he saw it lying on the street is $25,000.
Obviously I’m not there to pick up anybody, but I’m not afraid to hang out in a predominantly gay establishment.
I get sillier as I get older, so I don’t know what wisdom means. I can only pass on something that I’ve been acquainted with and let whomever it is pick the bones out of it
On the day my daughter was born, I started writing a book for her. The plan was that, over the course of her life, I’d fill it with advice on how to be a strong woman. But along the way, I got caught up in the stories of Amelia Earhart, Sally Ride, and so many others. So how do you pick the best heroes for your kids?
Like the ability of all the musicians to end the song at the right time. Or when it’s time for a chord change, but nobody knows what the chord should be, and you all, you know, it all just changes, magically, at the same time. It’s when you pick up your phone to call someone and that person is calling you.
When we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other.
Attitude is everything, so pick a good one
I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script.
Go home, pick up your video camera, and make a film.
When you’re creating a character out of nothing, you have to make all the guesses as to how they walk, how they talk, how they think. It was all there on the table for us to pick and choose for Murrow.
One of these days some simple soul will pick up the Book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed.
I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it.
Once you pick up a skateboard, you’ll find out that it’s not a hobby, it’s not a sport, it’s a lifestyle.
I pick up the New York Times or Time and it’s talking about the latest rock group, which I’m sure is exciting to some people, but it neglects a huge area of music.
Literally falling on the ice and having to pick yourself up in front of thousands of people is not an easy thing to do. The thing that you learn is to pick yourself back up, to learn from your mistakes.
New Year‘s Eve. It’s a promise of a night. Single, married or widowed, in love, loveless or lovelorn, we all leave our apartments and pick through snow in high heels, or descend subway stairs in tuxedos, lured to wherever we’re going–whether we know it or not, would deny it or not–by the kiss of a stranger.
I love the South. Although I grew up primarily in Memphis, my family moved around a ton when I was a kid. I guess I never stayed in one place long enough to pick up the accent, but I definitely identify as a Southerner.
He is not injured. He’s not fit. He’s not fit to play football, unfortunately. He played in a reserve game the other day and I could have run about more than he did. I can’t pick him.
I should be able to pick which applications I use for managing my life, I should be able to pick which content I look at, and I should be able to pick which device I use, which company I use for supplying my internet, and I’d like those to be independent choices.
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.
Nothing in life gets dropped without someone else having to pick it up.
We do not believe that you can be ‘half responsible‘ or pick and choose the convenient areas to be responsible in
The most that can be said of flattery is that it is sometimes a cheap psychological trick with which charlatans and dishonest people lull others into a state of carelessness while they pick their pockets.
The important thing about any book is that you have to have a good story and that it has to be exciting. Then it’s nice to add other levels underneath that people can pick up on.
When you’re Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody.
Ironically, the main task of chess software companies today is to find ways to make the program weaker, not stronger, and to provide enough options that any user can pick from different levels and the machine will try to make enough mistakes to give him a chance.
I grew up in Southern California and there is a deep car culture there. I am now down to one car. It is a 1923 T pick up with 1000 hp. I have had a number of cars but little time and space so I have liquidated most of them.
We are now at a point where because we in fact have been successful at stopping a number of plots, a threat has evolved. We do see these lone-wolf actors. We do see these encouragements for troubled individuals to pick up a gun and act out of this ideology.
Average investors can become experts in their own field and can pick winning stocks as effectively as Wall Street professionals by doing just a little research.
Volleyball rules are simple. If it is on the floor, pick it up and get it into the air. If it is in the air, keep it off the floor. В—
The thing about a pick-up line is, even if it works, then what? I just figure you unapologetically be yourself, and if it works, cool.
I believe the very best money is made at the market turns. Everyone says you get killed trying to pick tops and bottoms and you make all your money by playing the trend in the middle. Well for twelve years I have been missing the meat in the middle but I have made a lot of money at tops and bottoms.
If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
When I look for self-help books for myself, I used to be scared that I was going to pick up a book that would depress me even more.
You don’t get to see all my family drama, you don’t get in my relationships, and you don’t get to live inside my personal life. But if you don’t pick at me, I’m pretty open to just let you in.
Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love.
Our minds are like crows. They pick up everything that glitters, no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal in them.
Not getting girls is the story of my life. I have always had a bit of a tough time with the ladies. I don’t know whether it’s that I don’t have game or just don’t feel comfortable in my own skin, but females pick up on that.
Really, what are the options? Levi’s or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It’s one of those life choices.
There are still people who essentially live in intellectual silos and either read Mother Jones or watch Fox News, based on their worldview. And they pick information out that reinforces it rather than keeping an open mind.
I’m very free with my sexuality, but not everywhere all the time. I pick and choose when I do nudity, and who I do it for when I’m working, and when I’m doing it. I’ve done nudity twice in a film.
I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else.
I’ve done choir since I was tiny, and I’ve always tried to get into plays. They all just meshed together. Now with my career, especially with music, people are like, “Which one do you pick?” I don’t pick either. They’re just different expressions of who I am.
Every task is given equal importance – that way I can pick and choose my tasks based on the ebb and flow of my creative metabolism.
Just skate for fun, don’t pick up a skateboard because you want to be a pro one day. Don’t forget why you started skating in the first place.
When we think of the past it’s the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.
As you tumble to the ground, pick me up on your way down.
As an activist, you gotta pick something that’s particularly interesting to you and go for it – because there’s no shortage of things to do. And it’s sort of a long-term commitment. Activism is for life.
We shouldn’t build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on.
I just wait until there is money lying in the corner, and all I have to do is go over there and pick it up. I do nothing in the meantime.
Guitarists should be able to pick up the guitar and play music on it for an hour, without a rhythm section or anything.
I believe every person has a guardian spirit or angel. They assist us in the transition between life and death and they also help us pick our parents before we are born.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.
I never pick a film based on the genre; I choose the characters I play. I will think it through thoroughly – whether I am the best person to play the character, able to excel in it and match with the other characters.
You know what’s fun? You pick somebody at random, like out of the phone book, and send them about 100 ‘Just Because‘ cards. They can’t even ask you why you did it.
We are on dangerous terrain when government picks winners and losers in the economy by subsidizing favored products and industries.
As far as looking at myself on screen, I tend to pick out every single flaw that I could have or should have done better. I’m more of a cringer at first and when it is years down the road and out of my way, I can actually appreciate it somehow.
It’s hard to put what it means into words. It’s just a dream I had when I was a little kid. It’s not every day [you] get to make your lifelong dream come true. The point of doing things in life is you pursue a goal, and you go after it, you reach it and you pick another one. But they’re hard to attain.
I hope that more [African-Americans] decide to play after seeing the things that I was able to accomplish; not only myself, but other African-American players. Hopefully, they pick up a bat and a ball and go out there and play.
I think people pick up on that. You use personal stuff and mix it all in – I definitely pull on that stuff in my acting.
What I pick for my blog and what I pick for Twitter are different things. One thing that is true for both, by and large, is that it has to feel like something that leaves you with more than just a moment of gawking.
Steve Coogan picks up enough to lecture an interviewer: This is a postmodern novel before there was any modernism to be post about. Later it’s claimed that Tristram Shandy was No. 8 on the Observer‘s list of the greatest novels, which cheers everyone until they discover the list was chronological.
‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for – you or me – and we all know who they’ll choose.
You think people can work all day and then pick up their kids at child care or wherever, and get home, and then still manage to sandwich in an eight-hour vote? Well, Republicans, I guess, can do that, because a lot of them have never made an honest living in their lives.
There is a certain amount of pornography that exists throughout Purple Rain, but the appeal is obvious. You can really pick that picture apart and see where “A” fits into “B” and so on. It was very wisely done.
Usually, what people in the public eye do is pick two charities and just exclusively work for them. But that means you have to turn people down all the time, so I try and do something for everyone that asks me, at least once.
Brits are far more intelligent and civilised than Americans. I love the fact that you can hail a taxi and just pick up your pram and put in the back of the cab without having to collapse it. I love the parks and places I go for dinner and my friends.
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.
I didn’t follow the whole ‘X-Men’ story because it got too complicated. I’d pick up a comic book and have no idea what was going on.
I would like to pick Rihanna‘s brain. I love her style and what she does.
I work in theology and Christian books all day long, when Im studying, so its just kind of nice to pick up something different. The books that have influenced me, theres not just one book that was a watershed, although Mere Christianity was as much as any.
COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.
Peter Hart, the pollster, has a question when he asks about presidential or vice presidential candidates, what kind of a neighbor would they be? And several Democrats – George W. Bush was always seen to be a good friendly neighbor who would pick up the newspapers if you were out of town or check your mail.
I have a sign on my door. I look at it every single day of the week. The sign says, “Attitude is everything, so pick a good one.” You need a very strong internal knowing. For instance, when I sat down to write the book The Power of Intention, I had a very strong internal knowing that I call thinking from the end.
I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.
Don’t worry over what other people are thinking about you. They’re too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them. If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.
I love my work, and I think that I was so lucky to pick a profession where it’s a joy to go to work every day.
I found that whatever interested me in life, I could pretty much pick up the phone, call somebody, and all of a sudden be in the middle of it.
Remember to connect with people now and then. In fact, pick up the phone, right now, and call a friend for no other reason than to say hi.
Pick a destination, go there, be open-minded and talk to the locals. Eat the things they eat and go where they go. You don’t need to be fluent, just as long as you’ve got a smile on your face- people will be jumping over themselves to show you the stuff they’re proud of.
If I had to pick a single word to describe what my pictures are all about, I would say ‘secrets.’ As a child I always had a secret world and my favorite book was “A Secret Garden.
I like so many different genres of music that I guess it would be hard for me to pick one person who inspires me when so many people inspire me to make good music.
You pick up the phone and you talk to somebody. There’s a voice on the other end and you say what you have to say. This is how I perceive my life. I don’t see myself as “Oh, I’m doing this great thing because I’m going to give this talk, now everybody’s going to be transformed.”
There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it’s almost impossible to pick one.
How do you walk into someone’s life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off.
You can’t pick when you’re touched. You can’t pick the time. It just is. It’s the reality. What it is, is. I can’t change the past. I can only deal with the present and the future.
Eventually, someone is going to pick up a brick.
As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don’t leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!
The relationship between the audience and the dancers goes through many different stages. Someone seeing my work for the first time may or may not pick up on that.
I was the second-best player in high school. I was the second pick in the draft. I’ve been second in the MVP voting three times. I came in second in the Finals. I’m tired of being second. I’m not going to settle for that. I’m done with it.
Since I was a kid, when I pick up my guitar it’s been hard for me to write some sort of bubblegum lyrics. It’s not really ever been my route.
It’s hard to pick out one particular wrestler.
All I can to, and the only sense of control I have over this crazy moviemaking business, is to pick things that I like with people that I love and respect, and then just hope everything else works out.
The media like a good fight. They pick out the extremes and they leave out all the people in the middle who believe in both God and evolution.
What happens when you get hurt? Take that kid at Kentucky, Nerlens Noel, who could have turned pro after high school.Who knows what’s going to happen? How the operation is going to go? The only thing I do know is that he would have been a top pick in the draft last year, and he’d have millions of dollars in the bank.
I pick what are my priorities and I limit those priorities to less than five in my life and really in those particular areas put in the energy to try to make good choices.
People ask me, what was your rock bottom? I say, pick.
I used to not listen that much, but I’ve really learnt to listen to other people and to really listen to what they’re saying. I’ve found, especially being on a film set, people have so many different stories; if you just listen, you can pick up so much stuff. I try to listen as much as I can.
Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, start all over again.
He’s the kind of man who picks his friends – to pieces.
The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.
I don’t pick on anybody who has a number above 30.
When you just get mixed up & there’s too much going on, then it’s time to pick up your guitar.
Love is not necessarily about grand gestures. It can be the little things, like someone knows you like a certain food so they pick it up for you. Stuff like that is sweet. It’s little things that are nice and thoughtful that you can do every day.
Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that’s smaller than you and you beat them, where’s the honor in that?
If you can pick up a ground ball you’ll play for any team you want.
I’m going to do everything I can to get myself elected, but that’s not enough. I’m going to try to help move the Senate to be a Democratic majority. I’m going to try to help pick up House seats. I’m going to try to elect Democratic governors, Democratic legislators, and all the way down the line.
Even if you’re walking through the airport or going to pick up your mail, if you meet a fan and they have a camera, they will take a picture of you and millions could potentially see that picture – if it’s picked up by a blog or whatever.
The toxic residue of humanity – you have to guard yourself, guard that sensitivity even more heavily because otherwise you can pick up so many pollutants that you’ll become more toxic.
I got really tired of metal music. How do you pick what’s good to sell when you’re not totally into what you’re listening to and marketing?
Every movie you’re going to forget that it’s 3D whether it’s widescreen or whatever it is, you’re going to forget everything if the movie is working. If the movie doesn’t work or if the movie generically doesn’t work then immediately you start to pick apart whatever has contributed to that.
When we are youths in the Dominican, we pick up bats and balls because baseball is part of what we grow up with. The fun feeling you get playing keeps your head up when you encounter difficult times.
Pick up a pinecone and count the spiral rows of scales. You may find eight spirals winding up to the left and 13 spirals winding up to the right, or 13 left and 21 right spirals, or other pairs of numbers. The striking fact is that these pairs of numbers are adjacent numbers in the famous Fibonacci series
I guess I still feel that I’m a comedian; if I had to pick one thing that I feel like I could do, it would be that. That doesn’t mean that I like it, but I feel that’s what I am.
See a pin and pick it up, and, all day long, you’ll have a pin.
I don’t have much time for shopping so I pick things up when I can. My favorite labels are APC, Isabel Marant and Agnes B because the clothes are cut small and have a simplicity to them.
I go over many games collections and pick up something from the style of each player.
No studio picks up the phone after seeing ‘Dogtooth’ and goes, like, ‘We have the next superhero movie.’ Though if one did, that would be an interesting studio to work with.
Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.
With love like that, you can’t get pick about how it finds you or the details. All that matters is that it’s there. Better late than never.
I’m a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.
A manager wins games in the winter when he picks his team.
The first rule (of investing) for me is don’t have rules. You find one amazing investment and that’s all that matters. If you pick the right body of water, you might not need a boat.
But you want to see shapes; you want to see stories, so you pick them out of the sky.
The first-person viewpoint is more enjoyable to write, because it lets me meander more freely, and it can reveal more of the character’s self-delusions. Really all the advantages are with first-person, so I’m sorry I don’t get to pick and choose.
I do not pick the wrong guys. They pick me.
Life has taught you many things, and the people close to you want you to have a good future, but it isn’t their future in the end….its your choice you pick the path and lead the way. All your family will do is follow you while you are on that path and support you when you find the light at the end of your road.
