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859 quotes by 743 authors

Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players. I picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work… — Magic Johnson
I never looked at the masses as my responsibility. I can only love one person at a time. So I began. I picked up one… — Mother Teresa
A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won… — Mark Twain
Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue. — Ambrose Bierce
And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up… — Julius Erving
As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the… — V.S. Naipaul
I've always been inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, who articulated his Dream of an America where people are judged not by skin color but… — Steven Chu
I grew up in Tennessee, and if you didn't play football, you were a sissy. I got slurs all the time because I was in… — Justin Timberlake
There is a light at the end of the tunnel but first you'll have to find the light switch and change the bulb before switching… — Tim Field
I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what was going on… — Alton Brown
I'm at the age when my friends have started having kids, and when my first good friend had a baby, the first time I picked… — Jessica Pare
A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down… — James Thomas Fields
I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which… — Sarah Zettel
Singer Cilla Black's introduction to homophobic bullying occurred during a visit from Billy, a dear childhood friend. Sharing a room with Ms Black's boyfriend, Billy… — Cilla Black
Didn't you know that people hide love like a flower too precious to be picked? — Emperor Wu of Han
There is something in such laws that takes the breath away. They are not discoveries or inventions of the human mind, but exist independently of… — M.C. Escher
Every day after lunch when I was writing my first book, I'd nibble a square of fine chocolate and meditate on all that had gone… — Laura Hillenbrand
You may remember the story of how the devil and a friend of his were walking down the street, when they saw ahead of them… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
...the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia apparently cherry-picked Russian climate data. — Andrey Illarionov

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