Picks Quotes - Page 18

• If you stay half-alert, you can pick the spectacular performers right from your place of business or out of the neighborhood shopping mall, and long before Wall Street discovers them.

  Thomas Rowe Price, Jr.

  Wall, Shopping, Long

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• I'm sure I've said some pretty bad pick-up lines.

  Noah Baumbach

  Lines, Said, Pick Up Line

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• I watch movies all the time, so it's hard to pick certain specific directors that have inspired me in the aggregate.

  Noah Baumbach

  Directors, Watches, Inspired

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• I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you. So, the best way to get them to read, is to read. The best way to get them to do anything is to do it yourself, and they will absolutely copy you. That way, you don't have to worry about what's supposedly age appropriate, a child will pick something up when the child is ready.

  Alice Walker

  Children, Worry, Age

  "Alice in Walkerland!". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• If your goal is to make the world a better place, one thing you can do is pick a specific challenge that you really care about. Then, learn as much as you can about it and try to volunteer your time to help an organization that is working in this area. While you're doing that, look for creative new ways to use technology to tackle parts of the problem that you come in contact with.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Organization, Volunteer

  "A Philanthropist, Technology Pioneer, and Multi-Billionaire". Interview with Olivia Pineda, mag.amazing-kids.org. 2010.

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• The script is like music to me. I approach it like it's a musical piece and I hear how it's supposed to sound when people say the words. There's rhythms and there's intonations and things, and so, when somebody comes in and hits the notes that I hear, I go okay. Or, they come close enough, and then I'll say "Well how about you try it like this?" and if they have a good ear and they can pick it up, then I think okay, they've got it.

  Rob Reiner

  Thinking, People, Musical

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm in favor of free trade, but I think if you had to make a choice between having technological progress versus free trade, you had one or the other, you should always pick technological progress. I think it's an incredibly important variable for creating more prosperity.

  Peter Thiel

  Thinking, Creating, Choices

  Interviewed with Victoria Brown, bigthink.com. November 15, 2010.

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• Where does any novelist pick up any character? For the most part, in town, to be sure.

  Herman Melville

  Character, Towns, Novelists

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.3049, Delphi Classics

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• I was going to be the best paper boy ever. I used my Sting-Ray bike and got the papers there after school. People know I porched everything. No roofs, no lawns. I stopped the bike and nailed it. And if I ever missed, I would go pick it up and do it right.

  Gary Carter

  School, Boys, People

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• A lot of my friends they call me 'the therapist'. They come to me looking for advice. I must be doing something right because they keep coming back. But I'm not very good at kind of looking into my own world and trying to pick apart what is really wrong and fix those things. I like to kind of shy away from certain issues and turn away.

  Janet Jackson

  Issues, Advice, Trying

  "Tyler Perry, Jill Scott, and Janet Jackson Wonder Why Did I Get Married?". Press conference, movieweb.com. October 9, 2007.

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• It just seems logical that sticking to investing in only a small number of companies that you understand well, rather than moving down the list to your thirtieth or fiftieth favorite pick, would create a much greater potential to earn above-average investment returns.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Moving, Small Numbers, Average

  Joel Greenblatt (2011). “The Big Secret for the Small Investor: A New Route to Long-Term Investment Success”, p.60, John Wiley & Sons

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• So there is a natural efficiency that you pick up as you can prioritize capital across a bigger set of opportunities.

  Bill Vaughan

  Opportunity, Efficiency, Natural

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• I think the biggest advice I can offer is don't just pick one story and stop, write as much as you can, as many stories as you can. The best thing about being a writer is, a writer's craft is nearly perfect because a writer can go anywhere and do his craft.

  Dwayne McDuffie

  Writing, Thinking, Perfect

  Source: www.complex.com

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• You can’t pick up and leave everything behind because there is too much sadness in the world and not enough places to go.

  Ann Patchett

  Sadness, World, Places To Go

  Ann Patchett (2011). “The Patron Saint of Liars”, p.216, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• oh mothers you will have made the little tykes
  so happy because if nobody does pick them up in the movies
  they won't know the difference
  and if somebody does it'll be sheer gravy

  Frank O'Hara

  Movie, Mother, Differences

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.372, Univ of California Press

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• When you're singing we all phrase each other in the most remarkable ways. I might hit some sort of thing I've never done before - some vocal pattern. Bonzo will pick it up - he'll phrase with me instantly and then Pagey may join in or start some other phrase - it's like a quadrant.

  Robert Plant

  Singing, Phrases, Done

  "New Again: Robert Plant". Interview With Emily McDermott, Mark Ginsburg, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 12, 2013.

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• Osama bin Laden put out a new video. The timing of this video has some people upset, three days before we vote. It looks like he's trying to influence the election. And I'll tell you, it's not going to work. Americans know Osama bin Laden does not pick our president. The Supreme Court does.

  Bill Maher

  People, Upset, Trying

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• You realize how much the relationship when kids are young can suffer. And it's important to make sure that you are able to spend some time with each other. As a father, the best thing you can do for the kid is to love the mom. Even as a parent, I believe that loving the mother is the most important thing. And even parents who maybe aren't together I think that's important for them as well to respect each other and to be kind to each other, because I think it does so much in who they would pick to be around, or how they feel about themselves.

  Vince Vaughn

  Mom, Mother, Father

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Many children grow through adolescence with no ripples whatever and land smoothly and predictably in the adult world with both feet on the ground. Some who have stumbled and bumbled through childhood suddenly burst into bloom. Most shake, steady themselves, zigzag, fight, retreat, pick up, take new bearings, and finally find their own true balance.

  Stella Chess

  Children, Fighting, Land

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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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• Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An Englishman will pick out a dissenter by his manners.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Religion, Faces

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.21

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• Stock up your pantry and your freezer with things that aren't perishable: Your favorite jar of tomato sauce that lists "tomato" as the first ingredient, lots of grains, olive oils, vinegars, tomato pastes, onions, shallots. When you go to the store, you only have to pick up meats and produce.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Oil, Meat, Tomatoes

  "Giada De Laurentiis' Slim-Cooking Secrets". Interview with Alison Prato, www.health.com. February 04, 2013.

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• Industriousness and conscientiousness are often at odds, because industriousness wants to pick the still sour fruit from the tree,while conscientiousness lets it hang there too long, until it falls and bruises.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fall, Odds, Long

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• Honey, you [Michael Jackson] gotta pick a race first. All of a sudden you're a black man, then you're Diana Ross, now you're Audrey Hepburn. Then he's got the little beard going on. He's like Lord of the Rings, the entire cast. Michael's about to jump species.

  Robin Williams

  Men, Race, Black

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• in my experience one thing you don't learn from is anything anyone set up to be a lesson; what you are to know you pick up as you go along.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Learning, Growth, Lessons

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