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“That's like asking you to pick your favorite child... I do however, think Bird on a Wire was one of my finest works. Oscar caliber.”
Mel Gibson
“If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.”
Timothy Leary
“That's called a microphone. It's a big sausage that picks up everything you say - and you're starting early.”
Prince Charles
“Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.”
Wendell Berry
“As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't”
Carrie Fisher
“It's always great to get word that you've been picked up for another season, ... We're really hitting our stride and have great story lines already mapped out for next year.”
Denis Leary
“All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.”
Babe Ruth
“Publishing is no longer simply a matter of picking worthy manuscripts and putting them on offer. It is now as important to market books properly, to work with the bookstore chains to get terms, co-op advertising, and the like. The difficulty is that publishers who can market are most often not the publishers with worthy lists.”
Olivia Goldsmith
“What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.”
Robert J. Ringer
“Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.”
Samuel Beckett