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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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• Your sound is in your hands as much as anything. It's the way you pick, and the way you hold the guitar, more than it is the amp or the guitar you use.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Guitar, Hands, Sound

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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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• Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.

  Mae West

  Marriage, Women, Pieces

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over the dunes, a life in which you stop and watch how a red-tailed hawk circles over a pond and a stand of pines. Get a life in which you pay attention to the baby as she scowls with concentration when she tried to pick up a Cheerio with her thumb and first finger.

  Anna Quindlen

  Baby, Circles, Smell

  "A Short Guide to a Happy Life". Book by Anna Quindlen, 2000.

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• I had whooping cough when I was very young, which left me with bronchial problems, and I would always pick up colds. I was very thin and nervous so my father and mother took me out of school and had me tutored at home.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Mother, Father, Home

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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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• No matter what techniques and what disciplines you go through, I think there is one factor more intangible and that is the motivation to pick yourself off the ground when you've been totally bloodied and smashed and say, 'Let's fight some more.'.

  Jerome Hines

  Motivation, Fighting, Thinking

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

  Joel Osteen

  Baseball, Bats

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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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• 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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• New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who also happens to be the 10th richest person in America, with a personal fortune of some $18 billion, likes to pick a fight - especially fights where the line between good and evil is particularly stark.

  Jeff Goodell

  New York, Fighting, Cities

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• God's got a lot of explaining to do. Of course, God never explains. When life breaks your heart, you're just supposed to pick up the pieces and start all over, I guess.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Heart, Pieces, Break

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• A major celebrity is a major brand, and major brands pick very critically what other brands they're going to associate with. So an A-list celebrity usually picks an A-list brand.

  Adam Braun

  Lists, Brands, Associates

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• The only real reason for self-referencing is the fun factor. It's fun for the writer, getting little peeks at what old characters might be up to. And it's fun for readers to spot a familiar face, or pick up on a made-up book title or something from an earlier story. I don't know that it does -- or even should -- contribute to the story in hand being any better than it would have been without it.

  Charles de Lint

  Fun, Real, Book

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• How would you know? Everything’s like sex. It’s the universal metaphor. To pick a lock, let me guess, you have to go slow at first, but then you have to pull off some fancy moves, and you have to stay concentrated, and you have to stick something in something, right?

  Ned Vizzini

  Sex, Moving, Fancy

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• A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It’s almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.

  Alain de Botton

  Matter, Moments, Significant

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• I once stopped to pick up a girl, and then there was this creepy-looking guy standing behind the bushes waiting to jump out and get in, too. So I just quickly drove away.

  Larry David

  Girl, Guy, Waiting

  "Hitching a Ride With Larry David". Interview with Paul Samuel Dolman, www.vulture.com. May 26, 2013.

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• Software unification. So that I no longer care what computing device I pick up, whether it's a laptop or desktop, whether it's one I own or one in a public place, whether it has a small screen or a large screen.

  David Gelernter

  Laptops, Care, Unification

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• How many a thing which we cast to the ground, When others pick it up, becomes a gem!

  George Meredith

  Casts, Gems

  George Meredith (1862). “Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside: With Poems and Ballads”, p.73

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• I wish the iPhone people would design one that's black and has two pieces, and it plugs into the wall and you can pick one piece up and talk into it. I tell you, the whole time I had one of those old-fashioned plug-in phones, not once did I misplace it.

  David Letterman

  Wall, Two, Iphone

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• A man picks a wife about the same way an apple picks a farmer.

  Evan Esar

  Men, Apples, Wife

  Evan Esar (1978). “The Comic Encyclopedia: A Library of the Literature and History of Humor Containing Thousands of Gags, Sayings, and Stories”, Doubleday Books

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• I'd play whenever I could get my hands on an electric guitar; I was trying to pick up rock'n'roll riffs and electric blues - the latest Muddy Waters. I'd spend hours and hours on the same track, back again, and back again.

  Keith Richards

  Rocks, Guitar, Hands

  "The Guitar Handbook". Book by Alastair M. Crawford, Isaac Guillory, and Ralph Denyer, 1982.

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• By the end of the war, I could pick out Jewish people almost as if I had a sixth sense about it, even if they had blue eyes and blond hair. I would have been a very valuable Gestapo person.

  Diet Eman

  War, Eye, Hair

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