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• I do have to pick my priorities. Nobody can do everything.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Priorities, Can Do

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• I learned American Sign Language in college and seemed to pick it up rather quickly. I really love to sign and wish that I had more friends to sign with.

  Candace Kita

  College, Wish, Sign Language

  Interview with Justin Kaehler, www.ign.com. July 14, 2004.

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• Pick up a pinecone and count the spiral rows of scales. You may find eight spirals winding up to the left and 13 spirals winding up to the right, or 13 left and 21 right spirals, or other pairs of numbers. The striking fact is that these pairs of numbers are adjacent numbers in the famous Fibonacci series

  Stuart Kauffman

  Numbers, Eight, Pairs

  Stuart Kauffman (1996). “At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity”, p.151, Oxford University Press

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• I spend so much time living by myself - mostly in hotels - and I pick up cats when I'm feeling particularly lonely.

  Penelope Cruz

  Lonely, Cat, Feelings

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• When a difficult situation comes into your life, it is possible to tune in to your mind and say, ?Okay, choose.? Are you going to make yourself miserable or content? Are you going to visualize scarcity or abundance? Are you going to put yourself down for getting angry with your husband or are you simply going to notice what insecurity you were feeling at the time and discuss it with him? The choice is definitely yours. Pick the one that contributes most to your aliveness and growth.

  Susan Jeffers

  Husband, Difficult Situations, Choices

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• The so-called language of Barbara Kruger is vernacular language. Obviously, I pick through bits and pieces of it and figure out to some degree how to objectify my experience of the world, using pictures and words that construct and contain me.

  Barbara Kruger

  Degrees, Pieces, World

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• I don't pick on politicians. They ain't done nothin'.

  Red Skelton

  Done, Politics, Politician

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• You've got to look and pick your shots - and that's where your class and skill comes out.

  Billy Joe Saunders

  Class, Skills, Looks

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• And this ain't no place for the weary kind
  This ain't no place to lose your mind
  This ain't no place to fall behind
  Pick up your crazy heart and give it one more try

  Ryan Bingham

  Crazy, Fall, Heart

  Song: The Weary Kind

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• There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.

  Jairam Ramesh

  Decision, Good Times, Tough

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• Don't pick on your sister when she's holding a baseball bat.

  Joel Osteen

  Baseball, Bats

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• Real education happens when you pick up a fact here, and another fact there, and put them together and get an insight.

  Terry Pratchett

  Real, Together, Facts

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• A very wise dog woman once told me that dogs find owners, not the other way around. They pick you and they choose to stay with you. In that way, they are also giving you the end of their life. The deeper the bond, the harder it is to say good-bye. I know I'd rather have any amount of time with a dog I love and suffer the mourning than not have the time at all.

  Julie Klam

  Wise, Dog, Bye

  Julie Klam (2010). “You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness”, p.67, Penguin

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• I need a soul mate so that I can be who I am, naked. I want there to be someone who picks up my heavy, bleeding heart and takes it somewhere safe and warm.

  Ville Valo

  Relationship, Soulmate, Heart

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• Style is the instrument you can pick back up when you want to regain some of the confidence you've lost.

  Stacy London

  Style, Want, Lost

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• There are times when I feel like I'm a traveling minister. I'm trying to go out and get kids to pick-up yard sale instruments and change the world.

  Dave Grohl

  Kids, Trying, Yards

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• I think every coach has to adapt to what they have, because they're what you get. You can't just go out to the player tree and pick all the great ones. That doesn't happen. You get a Barry Sanders every now and then. You get a Billy Sims every once in a while. And when you have it, you adapt to their strengths. Whoever comes in here and whoever has this job needs to adapt and will do that.

  Matt Millen

  Jobs, Player, Thinking

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• Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting you can just pick up a piece of chalk, a stick or whatever. In sculpture you can get a rock. Writing you just need a pencil and paper.

  Forest Whitaker

  Art, Writing, Rocks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To pick up a cigarette wrapper or wine label or an old letter or the end of a carton is my way of dealing with those things that do not originate in me, in my I.

  Robert Motherwell

  Wine, Labels, Letters

  Robert Motherwell, David Rosand (1997). “Robert Motherwell on paper: drawings, prints, collages”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.

  George Herbert

  Needs, Mirth, Sin

  George Herbert (1871). “The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum”, p.5

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• Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Men, Age, Our Society

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014). “We Should All Be Feminists”, p.16, Vintage

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• I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.

  Walter Becker

  Player, Self, Musician

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• There was definitely a lack of any sort of villain in the Clinton era, which is why when Columbine happened, it was easy to pick on me. My face was around and it made good TV.

  Marilyn Manson

  Tvs, Eras, Faces

  "Freak or unique?". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2003.

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• It's incredibly arrogant to pick and choose which incomprehensible truths we embrace. No one wants to ditch God's plan of redemption [the cross], even though it doesn't make sense to us. Neither should we erase God's revealed plan of punishment because it doesn't sit well with us. As soon as we do this, we are putting God's actions in submission to our own reasoning, which is a ridiculous thing for clay to do.

  Francis Chan

  Punishment, Clay, Arrogant

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2011). “Erasing Hell: What God Said about Eternity, and the Things We've Made Up”, p.88, David C Cook

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• The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It's duty.

  Chuck Yeager

  Military, Flying, Use

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