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“If I'm president, there are going to be government vans that drive around and pick up people who shouldn't be wearing certain clothing. Talk about lack of civil rights - I'm sorry, I'm pulling you right off the street, and we're giving you clothes that you're going to be O.K. in.”

People Ifs Giving Government Certain President Rights Streets Clothes Picks Sorry Civil Rights Clothings Pulling I'm Sorry Vans

Author:Denis Leary

“If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.”

Ifs Moving Picks Needles Doing You Groove Feudalism

Author:Timothy Leary

“I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.”

“I should be able to pick which applications I use for managing my life, I should be able to pick which content I look at, and I should be able to pick which device I use, which company I use for supplying my internet, and I'd like those to be independent choices.”

Should Looks Use Able Choices Company Internet Picks Independent Devices Application

Author:Tim Berners-Lee

“In choosing a partner, always pick the optimist.”

Picks Partners Optimist

Author:Tony Lema

“I'm not that fluid when it comes to scales and modes. I just pick up the guitar and play. It's all about exploration: just tune the guitar any way you want and start playing.”

Way Want Play Picks Guitar Scales Tunes Exploration Fluid

Author:Alex Lifeson

“By the way, I don't mean to pick nits here, but Obama has just ordered the flag at half-mast for 10 days for Mandela. He did not order the flag at half-mast at all for Lady Thatcher.”

Way Mean Order Half Picks Flags Masts

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I look at myself and pick out the things I don't like. No matter how much I work out, I never get muscle tone in my butt and hip area.”

Looks Matter Picks Areas Work Out Hips Tone Muscles

Author:Tyra Banks

“The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.”

Mind Whole Class Support Diversity Picks Prejudice Social Justice Tendencies Representatives Casual Sample Stumble Upon

Book:Public Opinion

Source: Public Opinion

“You know, you pick and choose your battles.”

Knows Battle Picks

Author:Ryan Lochte

“I do like British guys. If I had to pick one it would be Ewan McGregor. I met him once and he was gorgeous even if he is a little short. He has the most amazing charisma.”

Ifs Littles Would Be Guy Mets Picks British Gorgeous Charisma Most Amazing

Author:Eva Longoria

“It's a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority.”

People Humor Funny Together America Black White Picks Minorities Black People Latino Great Day

Author:George Lopez

“I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.”

World Want Inspirational Girl Picks Guitar Every Girl

Author:Courtney Love

“Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.”

People World Interest Influence Picks Classical Music

Author:Yo-Yo Ma

“One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you because they want you to pick up the check.”

People Want Pay One Thing Fame Picks Bills Checks Disagree Being Famous

Author:Charles Barkley

“Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.”

Real Reality Lying Names Picks Fake People Real You Manson

Author:Marilyn Manson

“Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball.”

Years Littles Play Today School Games Sports Millions Fields Ready Tvs Picks High School Balls

Book:The Mick

Source: The Mick

“You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way.”

Way Fans Picks Handful

Author:Bruno Mars

“I've had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, 'Your music sucks, you don't know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don't know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.'”

Knows Looks Bigs Faces Stuff President Know How Records Music Is Picks Who You Are Labels Lanes Record Labels

Author:Bruno Mars

“None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.”

“A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego.”

Firsts Mother Guy Stuff Mom Ego Picks Males Beer Crap Lumps Macho Doughnut Male Ego

Author:Roseanne Barr

“I would get records by Earl Scruggs... I would tune my banjo down and I'd pick out the songs note by note. Learned how to play that way. I persevered. There was a book written by Pete Seeger, who showed you some basic strumming and some basic picking... And I kind of worked out my own style of playing.”

Way Kind Book Play Song My Own Records Written Style Picks Down And Notes Tunes Banjos My Own Style Strumming

Author:Steve Martin

“NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.”

School Space Teacher Picks Flight Journal Public School Nasa School Teachers Space Flight

Author:Christa McAuliffe

“If you don't have the good fortune to work a lot then you take any job you get offered, whether it's a good job, fun job, a bad job, horrible job, whatever, you just take what you need to take. But I'm lucky in that - at the moment anyway and hopefully forever, but who knows - I get the chance to pick jobs for the kick of it and the fun.”

Ifs Knows Needs Moments Jobs Fun Chance Forever Lucky Picks Fortune Horrible Hopefully Kicks Good Job Good Fortune Bad Jobs Horrible Jobs

Author:James McAvoy

“Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.”

Waiting Drug Picks Patient Alcohol More Time Alcoholism Alcoholics Drug Prohibition Recovering Alcoholics

Book:The quality of mercy: an autobiography

Source: The quality of mercy: an autobiography

“I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace.”

Bigs Wanted Fantasy Growing Up Records Fire Growing Player Feet Return Mountain Picks Horse Towns Provision Daydreaming Cabins Childhood Dreams Log Cabins Record Players

Author:Linda McCartney

“Growing up in New York has influenced my style so much, and I have an amazing relationship with my stylist, Estee Stanley. We have so much fun with the whole process. She picks out dresses, I try things on and play dress up, and we get creative to see what works.”

Trying Play Whole Fun Process Creative Growing Up Growing Style New York Picks Dresses Stanley Stylist Amazing Relationship

Author:Lea Michele

“At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar.”

Writing Trying I Can Seems Force Painting Happenings Picks Guitar Frustrated Brushes

Author:Joni Mitchell

“I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.”

Source: Gone with the wind

“A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.”

Men Way Want Accepting Picks Tendencies Flaws

Author:Marilyn Monroe

“We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.”

Food Spring Picks Seasons Supreme Stations Yellow Load Fabric Onions Wagons Blackberries

Author:Mario Batali

“I love the idea of getting up early on Sundays and walking to the market to pick up fresh fruits and vegetables. It's a good way to start my day, and it makes me feel like I've accomplished something before other people are even awake.”

People Way Feels Ideas Walking Picks Fruit Awake Accomplished Sunday Vegetables Good Way Up Early Fruits And Vegetables

Author:Mandy Moore

“You are bound to pick up influences.”

Influence Picks Bounds

Author:Steven Morrissey

“When we shot 'The Lord of the Rings,' we had special permission to film in wild areas of New Zealand that could be accessed only by helicopter. They would drop us off and we would work all day, and they'd pick us up and take us out again.”

Film Lord Special Picks Shots Areas Rings Permission New Zealand Helicopters

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”

Source: My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition

“Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.”

People Literature Planets Picks Scream Wavelength

Book:The Message To The Planet

Source: The Message To The Planet

“My worry about the New York Times is that it's got the only position as a national elitist general-interest paper. So the network news picks up its cues from the Times. And local papers do too. It has a huge influence. And we'd love to challenge it.”

Interest Challenges Worry Influence New York Position Huge Paper News Picks Locals Papers New York Times Elitist

Author:Rupert Murdoch

“I'm in the position to pick the cream of the crop.”

Position Picks Cream Crops Cream Of The Crop

Author:Graeme Murphy

“'Not again!' I thought to myself this morning, as news trickled out that John McCain was set to pick Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Not again, because too often women are promoted for the wrong reasons, and then blamed when things don't go right.”

Reason Running Romance Morning News Picks Mates Governors Alaska Mccain Palin Wrong Reasons

Author:Dee Dee Myers

“The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.”

Ifs Want Feels Moving Memories Loneliness Like You Picks Window Embrace

Author:Ajay Naidu

“Our centers spread the floor, shoot the three and block shots. We can play pick and pop.”

Play Three Basketball Picks Shots Spread Pops Block

Author:Steve Nash

“If I get rejected for a part, I pick myself up and say, 'OK, not today, maybe tomorrow I'll get this other part or something.'”

Ifs Today Tomorrow Picks Rejected Maybe Tomorrow

Author:Liam Neeson

“Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.”

Ifs Want Sometimes Picks Gun Rebellion

Author:Huey Newton

“I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.”

Hurt Picks Fingers Guitar Strings Guitar Strings

Author:Bill Nighy

“We plan to pick up another five seats in the Senate and hold the House through redistricting through 2012. And rather than negotiate with the teachers’ unions and the trial lawyers and the various leftist interest groups, we intend to break them.”

House Interest Break Five Teacher Plans Groups Picks Unions Various Lawyer Trials Seats Senate Leftists Interest Groups Teachers Unions Trial Lawyers Redistricting

Author:Grover Norquist

“I care very much about women and their progress. I didn’t go march in the streets, but when I was in the Arizona Legislature, one of the things that I did was to examine every single statute in the state of Arizona to pick out the ones that discriminated against women and get them changed.”

States Care Progress Streets Changed Picks March I Care Legislature Arizona Statutes

Author:Sandra Day O'Connor

“Americans who have parents raised during the Great Depression or World War II understand how drastically things have changed on the home front. My father did not care a whit whether I liked him, and it would have been unthinkable for him to pick up my stuff. There were rules in the house, and they were enforced.”

World Has Beens War Home Care Father House Stuff Parent Fronts Changed Picks Raised War Of The Worlds World War Ii Great Depression Unthinkable Things Have Changed

Author:Bill O'Reilly

“I have a very eclectic iPod. So I've got my cardio people - so it's anything from Beyonce to some Jay-Z to Janelle Monae, her song 'Tightrope,' that's a good cardio song. And then I've got Sting. I've got Mary J. Blige. I've got The Beatles. I've got Michael Jackson. I try to pick the songs that I personally love.”

People Trying Song Picks Mary Ipods Eclectic Beyonce Cardio Mary J Blige

Author:Michelle Obama

“My uncles, who are farmers in Minooka, Illinois - I grew up with them and their pickup trucks and mustaches, and to me that was masculinity: big hairy sweaty guys who could pick up a bus.”

Bigs Guy Grew Grew Up Picks Bus Farmers Uncles Masculinity Truck Mustache Illinois Pickups Pickup Trucks

Author:Nick Offerman

“Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.”

Art Philosophy Reality History Picks Bones Graveyard

Author:Samuel Beckett

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