“I don't want to pick on Deutsche Bank, but I think the world of the regulated financial conglomerate, it is a strange thing. There is nothing in common between writing checks and running branch offices, issuing credit cards - those are good businesses, but they really have zero in common with M&A advice. They're a different customer.” ThinkingWorldWantWritingDifferentRunningCommonAdviceStrangeOfficePicksFinancialCreditCustomersChecksCardsBranchesZeroCredit CardStrange ThingsGood Business Author:Ken Moelis
“Here's the problem with Easter. The Catholic Church needs to pick a date because it keeps moving. And I think the reason they always have Easter moving to different dates is to catch us.” ThinkingNeedsDifferentReasonProblemMovingChurchPicksCatholicEasterKeep MovingCatholic Church Author:Denis Leary
“You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff.” WantDifferentStuffInterestingDirectorsProjectsPicksScriptsInteresting Stuff Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“The best way to do that is to pick up a new instrument or an instrument that you don't typically write on and see where it takes you. Whether it's using an acoustic guitar, or piano, or electronics as tools, all of these lead to creating different types of songs and I used all of these methods for this record.” WayWritingDifferentUsedSongRecordsTypeCreatingPicksToolsMethodInstrumentsGuitarBest WayPianoAcousticsElectronicsAcoustic Guitar Author:Serj Tankian
“For home games, I bring my clothes to the arena. I bring two different outfits that I can pick after the game. Road game, I got to wear what I walk in with.” I CanTwoDifferentHomeGamesWalksClothesPicksArenaOutfits Author:Dwyane Wade
“Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear.” PeopleYearsMeanDifferentGovernmentSexPicksYears AgoNosesSwear Author:Kate Winslet
“In the opening to the Mary Tyler Moore Show Mary's in the supermarket, hurrying through the aisles. She pauses at the meat case, picks up a steak and checks the price. Then rolls her eyes, shrugs and tosses it in the cart. That's kind of how I feel. Sure I would have liked things to be different. But, 'roll of eyes' what can you do? 'shrug' I threw the meat in my cart and moved on.” FeelsKindDifferentShowsEyeCasesPicksMovedChecksOpeningMeatMaryHer EyesPausesSteakTossSupermarketsCartsAisleMoved OnHurrying Author:Augusten Burroughs
“Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everyone else want best quality. You thinking different.” ThinkingKnowsWantDifferentJesusQualityPicksCrabsJoy Luck Club Book:The Joy Luck Club: A Novel Source: The Joy Luck Club: A Novel
“But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget. You take your material where you find it, which is in your life, at the intersection of past and present. The memory-traffic feeds into a rotary up on your head, where it goes in circles for a while, then pretty soon imagination flows in and the traffic merges and shoots off down a thousand different streets. As a writer, all you can do is pick a street and go for the ride, putting things down as they come at you. That's the real obsession. All those stories.” DifferentRealStoriesPastRememberCan DoImaginationMemoriesForgetStreetsMaterialsThousandPicksFlowCirclesObsessionTrafficForget YouPast And PresentIntersectionsRotary Book:The Things They Carried Source: The Things They Carried
“Her father picks different names for her as they change locales, but he uses Miranda often, presumably because he knows how much it annoys her.” KnowsDifferentUseFatherNamesKnow HowPicksAnnoyingDifferent NamesMiranda Book:The Night Circus Source: The Night Circus