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When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was… — Robert Waterman McChesney
Recently, I went up to Casino Rama to see Martin Short's show, just to see how he put it all together. And after the show,… — Trish Stratus
The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy… — John Gunther
Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I… — Juliana Hatfield
I'm the age now that Rock was when he picked me up, so I can understand how he felt - how his fame limited his… — Armistead Maupin
Kazan was an old friend, I met him in 1938. He picked up radio jobs for eating money, so I met him on a couple… — Richard Widmark
I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different… — Bruce Vilanch
We taped all this and then got it transcribed and picked the best lines or ideas or ways to take a scene. I've done that… — John Schlesinger
Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he… — Michael Stipe
Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
My husband's personality was filled with serenity and sunlight. Not even the incurable illness which fell upon him soon after our marriage could long cloud… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
...the sounds next door served as a kind of trip wire: I seemed to stumble and fall on my face, skinning and bruising myself here… — John Cheever
It bothers me that the executive branch is taking the amazing position that just on the president's say-so, any American citizen can be picked up,… — Laurence Tribe
Sovereignty inheres in the right to issue money. And the American sovereignty belongs by right to the people, and their representatives in Congress have the… — Ezra Pound
When I was in my first year of college at Logan, Utah, I bought an old car for a hundred dollars. I was eighteen and… — F. Burton Howard
Tell the story, gather the events, repeat them. Pattern is a matter of upkeep. Otherwise the weave relaxes back to threads picked up by birds… — Ann-Marie MacDonald
Okay. I picked up a movie to watch tonight. You can watch it with me if you like. It's a chick movie. Merri Lee said… — Anne Bishop
A stars rich in europium; of distant galaxies analyzed through the collective light of a hundred billion constituent stars. Astronomical spectroscopy is an almost magical… — Carl Sagan
Jerry picked up the technique of visualizing the story as a movie scenario; and whenever he gave me a script, I would see it as… — Joe Shuster
IT WAS TESS who told me about the crowd going to the all-night dance. We'd been school friends. We'd picked mushrooms and pretended to have… — Edna O'Brien

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