Picks Quotes - Page 8

• Maybe in the minor leagues. With my velocity, they would pick it up and say, 'Hey, you dropped something.'

  Jay Feaster

  League, Hey, Velocity

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• This pick is going to be one where people look back and say that was the right guy.

  Bryan Colangelo

  People, Guy, Looks

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• Fate knows all about you, it knows your fears and your weaknesses and your confidences and strengths, and it can be ready for all of them when it decides that the time is right. It can move you like a pawn in a terrible game of chess, sacrifice you for the good of others, drop you from a building you should never have been inside, give you a disease that no one has ever heard of. Luck and chance are impartial. Fate is active. It picks on people. Almost as if it thinks about things too much.

  Tim Lebbon

  Moving, Fate, Sacrifice

  Tim Lebbon (2003). “Face”, Dorchester Publishing Company Incorporated

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• When I sit down to the feast of life ... I'm so busy planning on how to pick up the check, and wondering what the other people think of me for paying it, and wondering if I have enough money in my pocket to pay the bill, that I don't get around to eating.

  Frederik Pohl

  Life, Thinking, People

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• Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from good friends. And if I have something good, I teach it to them, and I introduce them to others who will be useful to them with respect to virtue. And together with my friends I go through the treasures of wise men of old which they left behind written in books, and we peruse them. If we see something good, we pick it out and hold it to be a great profit, if we are able to prove useful to one another.

  Socrates

  Wise, Wisdom, Dog

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• Admittedly, I do have several bones... whole war fields full of bones, in fact... to pick with organised religion of whatever stripe. This should be seen as a critique of purely temporal agencies who have, to my mind, erected more obstacles between whatever notion of spirituality and Godhead one subscribes to than they have opened doors. To me, the difference between Godhead and the Church is the difference between Elvis and Colonel Parker... although that conjures images of God dying on the toilet, which is not what I meant at all.

  Alan Moore

  War, Doors, Differences

  "Correspondence: From Hell". Alan Moore and Dave Sim, "Cerebus" #220 (comic book series by Dave Sim), July 1, 1997.

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• While accessory items and embedded features help minimize driver distraction, nothing replaces simple common-sense when using a cell phone in the car. Pull over to the side of the road to dial manually, know the features and functions of your phone before you drive and allow voice mail to pick up your calls if you are driving - these are all simple and commonsensical steps we can all take to minimize distraction from in-car cell phone use.

  Gary Shapiro

  Simple, Voice, Phones

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• The Afghan War has clearly reached a stage similar to that moment at your child's party where you realise you've forgotten to give the other parents a pick up time.

  Jeremy Hardy

  Children, War, Party

  "The News Quiz". BBC Radio 4, January 23, 2009.

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• Researchers have found that people oblivious to the haunting phenomena when they first enter the haunted site are likely to pick up something in the same spots in the house as the primary witnesses who reported the haunting. This indicates that something actually exists in the environment at those spots on some level, physical or psychic.

  Loyd Auerbach

  Psychics, People, House

  Loyd Auerbach (2010). “Ghost Hunting: How to Investigate the Paranormal”, p.34, Ronin Publishing

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• The reinvention of American culture as purely the self catapulted Las Vegas to prominence. The city took sin and made it choice -- a sometimes ambiguous choice, but choice nonetheless. Combined with a visionary approach to experience that melded Hollywood and Americans' taste for comfort and self-deception, Las Vegas grew into the last American frontier city, as foreign at times as Prague but as quintessential as Peoria. In Las Vegas, you can choose your fantasy; in the rest of America, you don't always get to pick.

  Hal Rothman

  Las Vegas, Self, Cities

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• Drinking really cold beer is like slapping yourself in the face with an ice pick.

  Michael Jackson

  Drinking, Beer, Ice

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• President Obama filled out his March Madness bracket. You can tell Obama's mind is elsewhere because his top two picks were Israel and Iran.

  Conan O'Brien

  Israel, Filled Out, Iran

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• Take risks. Fail. Pick yourself back up again. And always, always remember this: there is no adversity capable of stopping you once the choice to persevere is made.

  Jason Kilar

  Adversity, Choices, Risk

  Jason Kilar's Commencement Address at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, www.c-span.org. May 10, 2015.

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• We all understand genetics. You get your eyes from your dad, your mom's nose, there's nothing you can do about that. But your spiritual genetics you can choose, pick, embrace and commit to. That's what I did.

  Chris Gardner

  Mom, Spiritual, Dad

  "Chris Gardner | Survival Guide: extended interview". Interview with William Welsh, washingtontechnology.com. October 19, 2006.

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• To engage in war is always to pick a wild card. And war must always be a last resort, not a first choice. I truly must question the judgment of any president who can say that a massive unprovoked military attack on a nation which is over 50 percent children is ‘in the highest moral traditions of our country.'

  Robert Byrd

  Country, Peace, Children

  "The Byrd That Roared" by Matteen Mokalla, www.motherjones.com. March 2004.

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• It is necessary to be occupied almost all the time, to have your mind focused; otherwise, you get very spaced out. There are many variant psychic forces and powers that roam through the worlds. You can pick them up.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Psychics

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• When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Athlete, Men

  Billie Jean King, Frank Deford (1982). “Billie Jean”, Viking Pr

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• I went over before the British Open and played Valderrama thinking that I might make the team, might be a captain's pick. I made the effort to go over there.

  Payne Stewart

  Sports, Team, Thinking

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• In fact, Cannonball Run II. I used to pick that as the worst movie ever made.

  Gene Siskel

  Running, Facts, Used

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• I have a computer screen near my seat where I monitor the overall health of the vehicle and pick up any problems that might be occurring early on or once we see any kind of a malfunction or anything unusual that's happening, we can look at the data and figure out what that is.

  Laurel Clark

  Data, Looks, Might

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• If I had to pick three players to start a franchise, I'd choose Hasek, Peter Forsberg and Eric Lindros.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Player, Nhl, Eric

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• If you are smart, you never retire. You may retire from that job you have had for many years, but you will pick up another career for yourself of some type.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Jobs, Smart

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• Approach each task in your life, no matter how simple or how complex, with power. Pick and choose things initially which are not impossible to succeed at. You need to develop the profile of a winner.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Simple

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• All things are divine. And yet, we pick and choose among them what's appropriate.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Careers

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• We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Writing, Literature, Firsts

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