Picks Quotes - Page 33

• What I pick for my blog and what I pick for Twitter are different things. One thing that is true for both, by and large, is that it has to feel like something that leaves you with more than just a moment of gawking.

  Maria Popova

  Different, Moments, Feels

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There are still people who essentially live in intellectual silos and either read Mother Jones or watch Fox News, based on their worldview. And they pick information out that reinforces it rather than keeping an open mind.

  Andrew Revkin

  Mother, People, Intellectual

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• I'm polite. I guess that's the dichotomy within me. I don't like to piss people off just for the sake of pissing them off. I pick my battles.

  Lucinda Williams

  People, Battle, Sake

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think we have replaced MTV. MySpace is more convenient. You can search for things, while MTV is just delivering things to you. On MySpace you can pick your own channel and go where you want.

  Tom Anderson

  Thinking, Mtv, Want

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• One of the things that make community colleges so special is they do not pick and choose their students - they work with all students.

  Jill Biden

  College, Community, Special

  Source: on.mtv.com

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• I can pick out people in this city to follow. I can be in a show at the Museum of Modern Art, my space in the Museum of Modern Art is my mailbox, my mail is delivered there. Whenever I want mail, I have to go through this city to get my mail.

  Vito Acconci

  Art, Museums, Cities

  Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 1, 2007.

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• The blacks have their parties, hustle a little liquor, get some things together, and I used to play for those peoples. They'd come get me on time, but they wouldn't bring me back on time... Done picked cotton all day, play all night long, then pick cotton all day the next day before I could get a chance to sleep.

  Muddy Waters

  Party, Sleep, Night

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• The old cliché in theater is, if you’re nervous, pick up a prop, which will immediately take you outside of your mind.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Mind, Nervous, Theater

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• The brown toxic cloud strangling Los Angeles never lifts and grows thicker with every immigrant added. One can't help appreciate the streets of Paris will soon become the streets of LA. However, Paris' streets erupted while LA's shall sink into a Third World quagmire much like Bombay or Calcutta, India. When you import that much crime, illiteracy, multiple languages and disease-Americans pick up stakes and move away.

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Moving, Paris, Clouds

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• Birdscapes moves rather like those swallows, dipping and swerving to pick up all sorts of items of interest. Mynott tells plenty of good birding tales, but these serve mainly to set off trains of reflection. . . . Reading Birdscapes is like going birding with a learned, witty, and somewhat irreverent companion who isn't satisfied just to check things off. . . . [D]elightful to read on a journey or a housebound day, and [opens] fascinating new horizons for anyone who wants to enlarge his or her interest in birds.

  Robert O. Paxton

  Witty, Moving, Reading

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• My art gives contemporary art a juvenile-delinquent phase. Its self-made style gleefully trashes conventions of beauty and society while pick-pocketing from the coolest underground styles and beliefs of the previous centuries.

  Steve Olson

  Art, Self, Giving

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• I ran through the manuscript in the space of a day, much as one might pick compulsively at a box of chocolates. It was simply too provocative to put down. Has the potential of being highly influential inside the field and among an informed public.

  Baruch Halpern

  Space, Chocolate, Might

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• I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write.

  Lou Doillon

  Writing, Guitar, Acoustics

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• Not taking the Bible (or other texts based on 'revealed truths') literally leaves it up to the reader to cherry-pick elements for belief. There exists no guide for such cherry-picking, and zero religious sanction for it.

  Jeffrey Tayler

  Religious, Zero, Elements

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• And worrying is less work than doing something to fix the worry. This is especially true if we're careful to pick the biggest possible problems to worry about. Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody want to help Mom do the dishes.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Mom, Worry, Earth

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• I never like to go out of character when filming starts. I fear that if I do, I might not be able to pick it up again.

  Richard Armitage

  Character, Might, Able

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• I've had failures, don't get me wrong, but it wasn't beneath me to pick up the phone and introduce myself to Bernard Malamud and say, "I'd like to introduce myself to you and to come meet you. I think I might have something that's worthy of your skills as a writer."

  Lawrence Schiller

  Thinking, Phones, Skills

  Interview with Suzanne Snider, believermag.com. May 2010.

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• I think as a scout you have to pick. It is harder. You have to talk and explain that this is not just about standing one-dimensionally in front of a camera.

  Michael Flutie

  Thinking, Cameras, Harder

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I don't know how much things have changed. You still need to be able to run the ball, pick up blitzes and catch the ball out of the backfield. Perhaps you need a running back to do a little bit more or be more versatile today but that is a good thing. People say we get hurt and don't last as long, but it's still an important position and you need everyone in the backfield to be able to contribute.

  Giovani Bernard

  Running, Hurt, Long

  Interview with Elias Trejo, www.askmen.com.

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• I grew up in Southern California and there is a deep car culture there. I am now down to one car. It is a 1923 T pick up with 1000 hp. I have had a number of cars but little time and space so I have liquidated most of them.

  Leland Sklar

  California, Numbers, Space

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• It's hard to put what it means into words. It's just a dream I had when I was a little kid. It's not every day [you] get to make your lifelong dream come true. The point of doing things in life is you pursue a goal, and you go after it, you reach it and you pick another one. But they're hard to attain.

  Jonathan Horton

  Dream, Mean, Kids

  Interview with Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com.

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• With voice acting it just matters what your voice can do. There are some things that I won't get over other people because my register isn't as deep as other people. So if someone wants a deep, dark, brooding villain voice then they are probably not going to pick me.

  Ashly Burch

  Dark, Voice, People

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• I don't know how smart I am, but I was a student of the game and I still watch games and still pick up things. If you watch individual players you will see genius.

  Tony DiCicco

  Smart, Player, Games

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• When the ship is sinking and you're forced to choose sides, the new solution is to jump from island to island to island. You don't have to pick.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Islands, Ships, Sides

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2014.

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• I have a terrible, terrible fear of knives. I only buy food that I don't need to cut... I haven't cut my food in years! Like, I won't even touch a plastic knife or anything sharp. And if I'm in a kitchen and somebody picks up a knife, I leave.

  Christian Serratos

  Cutting, Years, Knives

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

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