Picks Quotes - Page 15

• Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Order, Neighbor

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• Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.

  Betty Ford

  Food, Alcohol, Cooking

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• A kid that picks up a record, he doesn't need to know anything other than the music and have it in his or her headphones. They're getting ideas directly, it's like someone whispering in their ear. That's such a personal way to receive information.

  Conor Oberst

  Kids, Ideas, Needs

  "Desaparecidos' Conor Oberst: We're perfectly prepared for people to hate what we're saying". Interview with Jessica Goodman, ew.com. July 7, 2015.

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• The job of a friend is not to decide what should be done, not to run interference or pick up the slack. The job of a friend is to understand, and to supply energy and hope, and in doing so to keep those they value on their feet a little longer, so that they can fight another round and grow strong in themselves.

  Merle Shain

  Friends, Running, Strong

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• When, to gratify a private appetite, it is once resolved upon that an ignorant and helpless creature shall be sacrificed, it is an easy matter to pick up sticks enough from any thicket where it has strayed, to make a fire to offer it up with.

  Laurence Sterne

  Fire, Ignorant, Matter

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• Everybody has their favorite character.That's the only way I pick, whatever is going on in society, whatever I think folks will laugh at that's what I come up with.

  Jeff Dunham

  Character, Thinking, Laughing

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• We cannot win in team situations or in relationships by ourselves. It is like trying to pick up a pencil with only one finger...Even if that one finger is extremely strong, it will prove almost impossible to pick up that pencil unless you use your other fingers or some other part of your hand. Teamwork is a bit like using all of your fingers. Each one is unique and contributes something different, but they unite in pursuit of a common goal.

  Terry Orlick

  Teamwork, Strong, Unique

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• I never pick a film based on the genre; I choose the characters I play. I will think it through thoroughly - whether I am the best person to play the character, able to excel in it and match with the other characters.

  Rain

  Character, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.onetvasia.com

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• [On charity] I try to pick subjects that I can learn about and then focus on and then do as much as I can. If you have a tremendous amount of heat from the spotlight, then you're able to shine a little bit more of your light in a different direction. It's just deflecting. My dad calls it a celebrity credit card that you can cash in. I think if you're in this position you should do it.

  George Clooney

  Dad, Thinking, Light

  "George Clooney Dishes on Brad Pitt and John Krasinski in the Emmy Press Room". Pop Sugar Interview, www.popsugar.com. August 29, 2010.

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• There are so many to pick from that any list that I give you will be inadequate.

  Frederick Lenz

  Giving, Rama, Lists

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• Our efforts will only be effective if ordinary citizens in other countries have confidence that the United States respects their privacy too. And the leaders of our close friends and allies deserve to know that if I want to learn what they think about an issue, I will pick up the phone and call them, rather than turning to surveillance.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Thinking, Phones

  President Obama’s speech on NSA reforms, www.washingtonpost.com. January 17, 2014.

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• All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest, most surprising and wild imagination is not as rich, wild and surprising as reality. The task of the poet is to pick singular threads from this dense, colorful fabric.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Reality, Agreement, Wild Imagination

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• Most of the earth's inhabitants work to get by. They work because they have to. They didn't pick this or that kind of job out of passion; the circumstances of their lives did the choosing for them. Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring - this is one of the harshest human miseries. And there's no sign that coming centuries will produce any changes for the better as far as this goes.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Jobs, Passion, Earth

  "The Poet and the World". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 07, 1996.

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• The world has always been this way. I am sure in the mystery world of Egypt, ancient Atlantis, you pick a cosmos - There is always somebody on your case.

  Frederick Lenz

  Egypt, Cosmos, World

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• Paint pictures with sound. First, find your white-the deepest, roundest sound you can play on the guitar. Then, find your black-which is the most extreme tonal difference from white you can play. Now, just pick the note where you've got white, pick it where you've got black, and then find all those colors in between. Get those colors down, and you'll be able to express almost any emotion on the guitar.?

  Les Paul

  Music, Guitar, Color

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• We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys.

  Owen Feltham

  Men, Joy, Sorrow

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• I think people are just haters. When they see people doing well, some people, if there's something wrong, they'll pick at that.

  Alana Blanchard

  Thinking, People, Wells

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• Smart, sharp, and hilarious, Slaughterhouse 90210 is the perfect pick-me-up and never-put-me-down book.

  Jami Attenberg

  Smart, Book, Perfect

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• If your woman picks your ducks, and she cooks and carries her Bible... now there's the complete package of womanhood.

  Phil Robertson

  Ducks, Cooks, Ifs

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• I can pick up a screenplay and flip through the pages.  If all I see is dialog, dialog, dialog, I won't even read it.  I don't care how good the dialog is - it's a moving picture.  It has to move all the time... It's not the stage.  A movie audience doesn't have the patience to sit and learn a lesson.  Their eyes need to be dazzled.  The writer is the most important element in the entire film because if it ain't on the page it ain't going to be on the screen.

  Robert Evans

  Moving, Eye, Important

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• I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king
  I've been up and down and over and out and I know one thing
  Each time I find myself flat on my face
  I pick myself up and get back in the race

  Frank Sinatra

  Kings, Race, Pirate

  Song: That's Life, Album: That's Life

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• We need somebody that can unify a country in spite of a vocal powerful media that's intent on division. It's not about winning the media. It's about winning the people, and I don't think it's necessarily persuasive to eat - to cannibalize yourself. I think that you have to pick the winner.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Country, Powerful, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I feel my spot is somewhere between a bass player and a rhythm guitar player. I play with a pick. I play very aggressively. I always have a distortion pedal in line, and I play less melodies and do more stuff against the guitars that create melodies.

  Nikki Sixx

  Player, Guitar, Lines

  Source: forbassplayersonly.com

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• I think I write for reluctant readers. Of course I want everyone to enjoy my books, but if the kids in the back row who normally don't pick up a book are engaged with what I'm writing, along with the kids who are big readers anyway, then I really feel like I've done my job.

  Rick Riordan

  Jobs, Book, Writing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• As a producer, you really have - you're able to hand-pick all the talent that you want to be surrounded with.

  Hilary Swank

  Hands, Want, Able

  Source: www.pbs.org

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