Picks Quotes

• Mercy Falls was all about rumors, and the rumor on Jack was that he got his short fuse from his dad. I didn't know about that. It seemed like you ought to pick the sort of person you would be, no matter what your parents were like.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dad, Fall, Parent

  Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.28, Scholastic Inc.

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• Pick a movement, pick a revolution and join it.

  Jack Dorsey

  Movement, Revolution

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• I'll hire blacks as long as they can do the cotton-pickin' job.

  Evan Mecham

  Jobs, Long, Black

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• We have to pick and choose between good and a little bit better.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Littles, Bits

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• Pick a goal, make a realistic plan to reach that goal, work through each step of the plan, and repeat.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Mma, Goal, Steps

  Georges St-Pierre (2013). “The Way of the Fight”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• I am a picky eater. By that I mean, I love to pick the raisins out of oatmeal raisin cookies, the chips out of chocolate chip cookies, the white side off of black and white cookies, and the vanilla center out of Oreos.

  Dylan Lauren

  Mean, Black And White, Oatmeal

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• Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I commend the guys that do. I've done it. But I also think that you can pick great songs outside that you didn't write that can help your career.

  Jake Owen

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• I think the traditional explanation is that demons just find someone, they pick on them and try to break down their spirit so they can... take control of their bodies. Why exactly? I don't know.

  Oren Peli

  Thinking, Trying, Body

  "'Paranormal Activity' Director Oren Peli Answers Questions From His Fans". Interview with Adam Rosenberg, www.mtv.com. October 29, 2009.

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• Artists, writers and people in creative fields are entrepreneurs by necessity. Nobody gives them a paycheck or picks up their medical insurance. The ones who succeed learn to think and act like 'independent operators.' I think people who are technically 'employees' have to think this way as well. The company is not looking out for you.

  Steven Pressfield

  Independent, Artist, Thinking

  "From Cabbie to Best-Selling Author: Steve Pressfield on ‘Turning Pro’" by Greg Clarkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 16, 2012.

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• At the beginning of 'The Hills,' I couldn't watch myself because I'm very critical and would pick myself to pieces. But with movies I feel like it's different because you're playing a character. So it's like watching yourself but not watching yourself.

  Audrina Patridge

  Character, Different, Watches

  Interview with Michael Martin, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2009.

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• That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort of computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it.

  Jon Postel

  Interesting, Magazines, Computer

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• You should learn to be happy with what you have. Besides, the fact that I'm not a huge star has allowed me to pick and choose the roles I want to do, not the ones some person sitting in a studio office thinks I should do.

  Aidan Quinn

  Stars, Thinking, Office

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• At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching - that way, you pick up new ideas.

  Ian Rankin

  Thinking, Ideas, Way

  "Paperback Q&A: Ian Rankin on The Impossible Dead". www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2012.

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• There is a rampant tendency in any industry where someone is trying to sell something with a bunch of data, where they cherry pick a little bit... bias a little bit. This becomes quite easy when there is an enormous amount of data to cherry pick from.

  Burt Rutan

  Data, Trying, Littles

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• I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star.

  Jerry Reed

  Stars, Years, Pieces

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• If there are no films or plays of interest to me, I don't go. I know how to go to a museum or a library or pick up a good magazine or I can watch the sun set. I know how to live. There's a whole creation out there full of magic and wonder to be explored.

  Phylicia Rashad

  Museums, Play, Magic

  "Phylicia Rashad: A Director's Life". Interview with Sergio Mims, www.ebony.com. June 27, 2012.

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• The important thing about any book is that you have to have a good story and that it has to be exciting. Then it's nice to add other levels underneath that people can pick up on.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Nice, Book, People

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• I don't really mind what people say about my love life or anything like that, but the one thing is that, yes, I do sing and write all my own music. That is something that I hold really dear. And yeah, I made a fool of myself in front of the world, but it was also great to pick myself back up and go on tour.

  Ashlee Simpson

  Writing, Love Life, People

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• I guess if one set of my books was selling like Stephen King's, and the other wasn't selling at all, editors would want me to do the ones that sold like Stephen King's. But they seem to be willing to let me pick what I want to do next.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Kings, Book, Editors

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• For some in Washington, it's become sport to pick on the federal workforce. I think they do so unjustly. The very foundation of a stable America is having a government that functions well. Many countries have dysfunctional governments, because they don't have a good government workforce.

  Ken Salazar

  Sports, Country, Thinking

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• Psychic impressions can also remain in a physical location for some time. You can move into a home just vacated, pick-up the thought forms from the previous tenants, and assume they were your own thoughts and feelings.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Home, Psychics

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• There are billions of people on earth. They are all transmitting thoughts and impressions, most of which are not directed towards enlightenment. If you are not focused, you will pick up these energies.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Enlightenment, Energy

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• You have to be very, very careful not to pick up too much of the lower energies, the toxic energies, because they'll make you very ill. They can kill you. They can cause cancer, debilitative diseases of all types.

  Frederick Lenz

  Cancer, Energy, Toxic

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• Pick any other Republican in the country. He is the worst Republican in the country to put up against Barack Obama.

  Rick Santorum

  Country, Republican, Worst

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• I know the difference between venture capital[ism] and vulture capitalism. Venture capitalism is a good thing, comes in, gives that gap funding to help these companies get off and get started creating jobs, and work. But Mitt Romney and Bain Capital were involved with what I call vulture capitalism. And they walked into Gaffney and took over that photo album company for no other reason than to basically pick the bones clean. And those people lost their jobs.

  Rick Perry

  Jobs, Differences, Creating

  "Perry dismisses Mitt and N.H." by Jake Sherman, www.politico.com. January 10, 2012.

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