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859 Picked quotes by 717 unique authors

What happened was I saw this ad for a yogurt plant for sale. It was in my junk mail pile, and I threw it into… — Hamdi Ulukaya
I was always the biggest nerd in school: I had very few friends; I was always picked on; I used to wear really big glasses.… — Danielle Panabaker
Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though they… — Rosemary Mahoney
Forcing companies to recruit away from the golf course might lead to the appointment of more women from NGOs and academia and medicine, all of… — Noreena Hertz
Offal and offcuts such as head and feet can be picked up for next to nothing, and eating them helps to avoid waste. — Tristram Stuart
I never picked up my phone and called a bookmaker and bet on a baseball game from the clubhouse. Never. — Pete Rose
I love to sing. I never had any formal training. My mother is a singer, and I picked up listening to her. — Nimrat Kaur
I did get in a few fights in school. Kids threw around anti-Semitic slurs, not knowing necessarily what they meant. It was probably just something… — Jami Attenberg
I think I was one of those kids that I might not fight you if you stepped on my shoes or stole my lunch money… — Will Shields
I grew up in a house with a mother who was a teacher and a Freedom Rider - very left-wing Democrats living in a heterogeneous… — Ben Affleck
I always thought that sororities were just made up of cheerleaders from high school. And I kind of picked on those cheerleaders! — Spencer Grammer
I kept a journal when I was a teenager, so I definitely look back on those to see how I dealt with friends and cliques… — Sara Shepard
When I was in college, the first thing we did in acting class was to observe an animal at the zoo and become that animal.… — Claire Coffee
The guy that picked me up at the airport in 1985 when I was out in L.A. for my first audition was selling a script.… — Scott Bakula
When punk picked up black leather, I put it down. — Suzi Quatro
My editor picked out the name she wanted. I was either going to be Kim Harrison or Lisa Harrison, because she wanted me shelved right… — Kim Harrison
Pilot season in L.A. is just this blood bath. They make so many pilots, and such a small percentage are picked up. And then if… — Michaela Conlin
I was the girl in the black leather jacket with the black fingernails, picked up after school by guys with loud cars and motorcycles. I… — Melissa Marr
When I was young, I used to wear a lot of wigs, and I was running on stage at a gig and tripped over and… — Bonnie Tyler
The important thing to know is that life will always deal us a few bad cards, but we have to play those cards the best… — John Gokongwei
I was 13 when my parents moved to Israel, and I was put in a Scottish mission school. Ninety-nine percent of the children were Israeli...… — Arlie Russell Hochschild
I own that it is a good deal of a mystery to me how judges, of all persons in the world, should put their faith… — Benjamin Cardozo
I ran the high school newspaper and was in student government. I played sports my whole life but was never picked as captain. — Bing Gordon
By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife engender a sense of futility in the… — Michel Onfray
After World War II society had to settle back for a moment before it picked up the 20th century. — Stella Blum

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