Pickups Quotes - Page 3

• At the umbilical region we actually network with people. Picture that you are cutting those cords to everyone you know. It doesn't mean you don't love them; you are just cutting down on the negative energy pickup from people.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Cutting, People

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• My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a pickup truck and drove from North Dakota to California. She was a real survivor, so that's my stock. That's how I want my kids to be too.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Children, Real, Kids

  "Michelle Pfeiffer - What She Did for Love". Interview with Liz Smith, www.goodhousekeeping.com. June 4, 2007.

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• I prefer for things to happen serendipitously, but honestly, I also love terrible pickup lines.

  Angela Sarafyan

  Lines, Terrible, Honestly

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

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• Hey, I'm just looking for an excuse to retire so I can play summer league baseball, go coach my nephews, play pickup basketball. I've always had that ability to move on to the next thing.

  Doug Flutie

  Basketball, Summer, Baseball

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• A great pickup line is one I don't even notice. It has me connecting with you, laughing, having a good time. And that definitely gets my attention.

  Jennifer Morrison

  Laughing, Attention, Lines

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

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• For years I drove a big Ford F250 pickup. That was my ride because two-thirds of my work was wood work, and I'm always driving up to Northern California, where I harvest salvaged trees.

  Nick Offerman

  California, Years, Two

  "The GQA: Nick Offerman". Interview with Mary Kaye Schilling, www.gq.com. July 3, 2012.

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• Up until the time Turner Broadcasting bought Hanna-Barbera, it was essentially an independent studio whose planning cycle had to be nine months. You got a pickup in January, and you put it on the air in September. That's been the cycle.

  Fred Seibert

  Independent, Air, Nine

  "Q&A with Hanna-Barbera president Fred Seibert". Interview with Phil Gallo and Richard Setlowe, variety.com. March 23, 1994.

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• [American family court] is a system that is corrupt on his best day. It is like being tied to the back of a pickup truck and dragged down a gravel late at night. No one can hear your cries and complaints and it is not over until they say it's over.

  Alec Baldwin

  Night, Lawyer, Cry

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• For once in my career, I won't have to hold anybody's hand and they won't have to hold mine. I'm surrounded by veterans. We had a great battle last Thursday at HealthPoint. It was something I never had before - three, four, really great players all in one pickup game.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Player, Games

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• That's where I live, a junkyard in a neighborhood of junkyards. We have three tractors from the 1940s and '50s, several old pickup trucks, and a pile of scrap metal.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Three, Truck, Tractors

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We played soccer a lot with our friends and at school. We weren't on an official team or anything, but we'd definitely be up for it in gym or in after-school pickup games where we live.

  Mary-Kate Olsen

  Soccer, Team, School

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• I grew up driving old pickup trucks on the ranch with my dad, and I still always find myself driving like I'm out in an open field, except I'm in LA on La Cienega in the middle of rush-hour traffic.

  Amber Heard

  Dad, Fields, Driving

  "Amber Heard: 20(ish) Questions". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. August 20, 2011.

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• Americans are driving more in less-efficient vehicles. Sales of sports utility vehicles and pickup trucks have been amazingly strong considering the recession, and low pump prices are keeping people on the roads

  Mike Lucky

  Sports, Strong, People

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• Once in a while, I played second base; once in a while, outfield. But those were just pickup games and softball leagues. So when I bought the Yankees, I tried to stay one pace ahead of the players.

  George Steinbrenner

  Funny, Softball, Player

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• ... by then I was getting a little work, doing some playing and getting paid for it, not very much, but enough for me to feel justified in buying a real instrument. I bought a Gretsch with a De-Armond pickup on it and a second-hand Gibson amplifier; it looked like the one Charlie Christian used. I guess it was the same, although there were several models coming out at that time - this would be in I939.

  Tal Farlow

  Music, Christian, Real

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• Hardy was every loose-limbed cowboy in warn denim, every pair of blue eyes, every battered pickup, every hot cloudless day." -Liberty

  Lisa Kleypas

  Eye, Cowboy, Blue

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• The prospect of his future life stretched before him like a sentence; not a prison sentence but a long-winded sentence with a lot of unnecessary subordinate clauses, as he was soon in the habit of quipping during Happy Hour pickup time at the local campus bars and pubs. He couldn’t say he was looking forward to it, this rest-of-his-life.

  Margaret Atwood

  Long, Bars, Looking Forward

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “Oryx And Crake”, p.106, Hachette UK

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• There was an electric anger in his gaze, and a sort of challenge that made Simon long to hit him with something heavy. Like a pickup truck.

  Cassandra Clare

  Long, Challenges, Truck

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.917, Simon and Schuster

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• They think I'm silly. I do silly things. I fall down and run into things. I talk to inanimate objects. I'll hold a pickup stick to my ear and say, "What? What's that? I can't hear you

  Stephen Colbert

  Running, Silly, Fall

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• Pickup lines never work...I think someone clever, witty and funny is very attractive.

  Kate Upton

  Witty, Clever, Thinking

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• I'm always interested in mixing technology and music. You know, maybe I'll have a MIDI bass pickup at some point, I don't really think that's the direction I would want to go.

  Mike Gordon

  Technology, Thinking, Mixing

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• I think kids should be doing pickup or futsal all the time.

  Claudio Reyna

  Kids, Thinking, Should

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• He shook-a me up, he took me by surprise. He had a pickup truck, and the devil's eyes. He stared at me and I felt a change. Time meant nothing, never would again.

  Richard O'Brien

  Halloween, Eye, Devil

  Song: The Time Warp

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• I think everybody should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch, their friends their loaves of bread. Everybody's got their own songs. There should be so many songs out there that it all turns into one big sound and we can put the whole thing into a pickup truck and let it roll off the edge of the Grand Canyon.

  Beck

  Song, Work, Thinking

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• Among the cancers devouring the American body politic, one of the most virulent involves liberals who play the race card as carelessly as children playing 52 Pickup.

  Deroy Murdock

  Children, Cancer, Race

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