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Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it… — Sydney J. Harris
In so many ways, it feels the same now when I play as the very first time I picked up the instrument. There's always this… — Bill Frisell
I like to drop in on people who picked on me in high school or whatever, just out of the blue, and chat with them… — Zach Braff
It really is fascinating stuff, and I've picked it up on Scrubs. Memorizing lines is at least as hard as studying a text book, I… — Zach Braff
I was raised Catholic. I was confirmed Catholic (received the sacrament of confirmation). Through my military years, I sort of lost touch with the religion.… — Timothy McVeigh
That's one of the fun things...That's your excuse for dressing up. You can get picked on and go, 'Oh well I'm in a band'. — Chris Cheney
When I was 88 years old, I gave up meat entirely and switched to a plant foods diet following a slight stroke. During the following… — Benjamin Spock
So I asked him to play "Trav'lin' All Alone." That came closer than anything to the way I felt. And some part of it must… — Billie Holiday
Last year I picked up the New York Times and there was a story about a kid from Dartmouth who was bragging that he never… — Studs Terkel
I've always known that the best part of writing occurs before you've picked up a pen. When a story exists only in your mind, its… — Carolyn Parkhurst
By focusing on the interior of a speaker's larynx and using infrared, he was able to convert the visible vibrations of the vocal cords into… — Damon Knight
I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of… — Gordon Getty
I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find. — Wilfrid Sheed
People get good gigs because they stand up....You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself. — Seth Godin
Monk was a gentle person, gentle and beautiful, but he was strong as an ox. And if I had ever said something about punching Monk… — Miles Davis
Hands that picked cotton can now pick the mayor. — Charles Evers
When I was very young, most of my childhood heroes wore capes, flew through the air, or picked up buildings with one arm. They were… — Fred Rogers
And yet, or just for this reason, it's so fascinating to be a woman. It's an adventure that takes such courage, a challenge that's never… — Oriana Fallaci
The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing… — Kaley Cuoco
We just did a few takes of a song and just picked the best one. It was real organic and genuine. — Lucinda Williams

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