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My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff. — Mike Myers
When I first began doing TV pilots, my expectations were high. I didn't understand that world. So when 'Weeds' took off, I was so happy.… — Kevin Nealon
I had an awful first quarter but I picked it up. To all you single guys out there, it's not how you start the date,… — Shaquille O'Neal
Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day… — Jimmy Page
If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality… — Chuck Palahniuk
You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the… — Rand Paul
Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care. — Dave Pelzer
I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice… — Terry Pratchett
I stand up for other people, I'm very protective of people around me. If I feel like somebody is getting a bad rap or being… — Christina Ricci
The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country… — Norman Rockwell
Two-thirds of the directors at the New York Fed are hand-picked by the same bankers that the Fed is in charge of regulating. — Bernie Sanders
I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession. — Charles Schumer
I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since. — Slash
I would say Will came at a time in my life where he saw beauty in me that I didn't see in myself at the… — Jada Pinkett Smith
When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead. — Steven Soderbergh
I was a keen observer and listener. I picked up on clues. I figured things out logically, and I enjoyed puzzles. I loved the clear,… — Sonia Sotomayor
Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best… — Bruce Springsteen
I think kids growing up, if they were picked on and feeling inferior at 12, they're going to feel that way at 72. You just… — Sylvester Stallone
We get picked up in these Rolls Royces and get three miles down the highway and five cop cars pull us over. — Johnny Thunders
He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar. — Pete Townshend
After I changed the string we picked up right where we left off - and punched back in at the same time. I don't know… — Stevie Ray Vaughan
We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and… — Ville Valo
I had actually been going to Hawaii for quite a while before I ever picked up the uke. I think with anything new you're going… — Eddie Vedder
So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said 'Who's speaking please?' And a voice said 'You are.' — Tim Vine
I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language. — Christopher Walken

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