Pick Quotes
2633 quotes by 1941 authors
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When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick - she never has to wait for someone to choose her.
— Adriana Trigiani
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I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got to pick what was in them, and…
— Caroline Kennedy
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Brand-name growth stocks ordinarily command the highest p/e ratios. Rising prices beget attention, and vice versa - but only to a point. Eventually their growth…
— John Neff
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If I play badly I'll pick a fight in the third, just to get into a fight. I'll break a guy's leg to win, I…
— Derek Sanderson
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Women are racing all the time to try to have a perfect house and perfect kids and be a perfect cook. Men, somehow, for whatever…
— Debora Spar
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The people wanted to believe that the Negroes couldn't learn to read music but had a natural talent for it. So we never played with…
— Eubie Blake
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All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, 'Isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being…
— Eubie Blake
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Optimists, by contrast, look for specific, limited, short-term explanations for bad events, and as a result, in the face of a setback, they’re more likely…
— Paul Tough
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Those of us raised in the Christian tradition need to choose to either see God in Jesus or to continue to let the Bible define…
— Frank Schaeffer
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
— Isaac Hanson
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I go through about two Fender mediums a night because I don't pick straight down; it's sort of sideways, and it shaves them off.
— Robin Trower
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Sometimes men pick fights just for something to do-just to feel something like the threat of harm and the possibility of triumph.
— Jack Donovan
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Genealogy of ideas. You don’t get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and you can…
— Austin Kleon
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A stock market decline is as routine as a January blizzard in Colorado. If you're prepared, it can't hurt you. A decline is a great…
— Peter Lynch
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No business can do everything. Even if it has the money, it will never have enough good people. It has to set priorities. The worst…
— Peter Drucker
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As an old junk pusher told me, 'Watch whose money you pick up.'
— William S. Burroughs
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People ask me a lot about my drive. I think it comes from, like, having a sexual addiction at a really young age. Look at…
— Kanye West
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If I were to pick a language to use today other than Java, it would be Scala
— James Gosling
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But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and then you go to the…
— Richard Simmons
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English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results.
— H. Beam Piper
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