Indie music is picking up and artistes are more confident about putting out music with no big name attached to it.
I’ve led a career of having to take work to see my family, over picking and choosing, instead of ‘I need food on the table and I don’t know how I’m going to pay the mortgage.’
Ah, it’s too hard to pick a favorite president. It really is. It’s like picking your favorite from a box of chocolates – I love all of them.
We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing.
Just having the economy picking up doesn’t mean that we will get through or that we will turn the chapter on many of the problems that we see ahead of us.
I don’t really think it’s appropriate for me to be picking and choosing in the primaries. It’s pretty dumb politics for a Republican to choose between Republicans in a contested primary because obviously you’re going to be offending some people.
In open range fires it is about picking a spot and hoping it is the right location. At the head of the fire you have to worry about wind and humidity and a number of other factors.
I could easily master Telugu, but picking up Malayalam was challenging.
It’s a bloody shame that all the video stores have gone, I’ll tell you. Everything’s so mechanical now. It’s all so if-you-liked-this-then-you’ll-like-this. There’s no picking something out, or finding some brilliant person to open up new worlds for you.
I think God has blessed this country with enormous natural resources, and we should pursue all of the above. We should be developing oil, and gas, and coal, and nuclear, and wind, and solar, and ethanol, and biofuels. But, I don’t believe that Washington should be picking winners and losers.
What was very interesting to me about Clementine Hunter’s work is that she couldn’t read or write, and she has recorded history of the plantation life and the southern part of the U.S. – the cotton harvests, pecan picking, washing clothes, funerals, marriages – in pictures.
You can be drinking the wine today, but picking the grapes tomorrow.
It’s hard to be a clubhouse guy without being a great guy. I mean, the nature of the job is, you know, you’re picking up dirty clothes and you’re doing all the tasks that the players – that nobody else wants to do.
To play sweep arpeggios correctly, you have to mute each note with the left hand immediately after picking it.
I had originally done a production called ‘The Resistance.’ It was one of those underground guerilla things, very low budget. Then Starz and Ghost House ended up picking it up and funding it, and we reshot it.
There are certain battles that you pick. When they’re not worth picking, they’re laughable stories.
When we’re in the business of picking fights with our allies instead of working with them, that takes away from our strength in dealing with China.
President Obama has adopted a practice of picking and choosing which laws he wants to enforce. In most cases, his laws of choice conveniently coincide with his administration’s political agenda.
When I was younger, I was a bit of a feisty fighter type of guy. That’s something my father told me as I was becoming a man: ‘You don’t go picking fights, but you don’t run from any of them.’ And I was more afraid of my father than anybody else I had to fight.
My family is Chilean, and I was born there. By the time I was four, we were living in San Antonio, Texas, and I just remember picking a blue bonnet and getting yelled at by some guy with a sheriff hat and a badge. I was traumatized. He told me it was the state flower, and I wasn’t supposed to be messin’ with it.
I wanted success. I was ambitious. I didn’t leave United to see out my career picking up wages.
I started working when I was 13, picking up trash, bagging ice.
I think teams really want to see how you respond picking up and grasping things and if you can make changes and regurgitate that information.
I confess I sometimes sneak a peek at ‘The Big Bang Theory.’ I chuckle at their antics. But I cringe when they portray physicists as clueless nerds who are doormats when it comes to picking up women.
People’s behavior is not always changed based on a loss. I remember my dad or my uncle used to say, ‘If that guy’s picking on you, punch him once in the face, and he’ll never come back again.’ I don’t know how true that is.
On my worst day I always tell myself I’m not in a field picking cotton.
I’m picking and choosing what I want to do.
If the money’s equal between the Rockets and Mavericks, I think players are picking Houston. Every time.
For conservatives, every policy solution starts with an individual picking oneself up, acknowledging his or her mistakes, as a first step to improving his or her circumstances.
No one was interested in picking up a midlist series, even though I have a decent fanbase and respectable numbers.
I swear my car won’t run unless I’m picking my nose: At least, I’m that superstitious about it, so I don’t want to take any chances.
I’m not always the best at picking out what goes together. I always want to be presentable, but more than that, I want to be different. I’ve never just wanted to follow the crowd. I think that goes back to when I was a boy. If everyone was doing one thing, I’d do something different.
Most major races, including the New York City Marathon, require runners to provide photo identification when picking up a bib. Most provide bibs only a few days before the race, shortening the window in which someone could copy a bib.
In a dream world, it is to be able to continue picking and choosing projects that stand out to me and challenge me. Working with directors I look up to and alongside talented actors that push me to be better.
I’d love to say I made the smart decision of picking projects that became hits, but with ‘The Good Wife,’ I read the script and something inside me said, ‘I love this, I want to do this.’
Because I’ve been around the MMA block a little bit, I’m at a point now where I just want bodies to beat up. I’m past the point in my career where I’m picking and choosing.
I’m all for making a woman-empowering song. I get that, and I think that’s dope. I’ve got a daughter, and I think that’s amazing. But when you’re specifically picking on guys, that’s when it’s not right. ‘No Scrubs’ is the meanest, dumbest song ever made because they need to be specific in certain areas.
Picking up new languages is fairly easy since it’s my passion.
I went home one night and told my dad that an older kid was picking on me. My Dad, a Korean War vet and a Chicago cop for 30 years, told me, ‘You better pick up a brick and hit him in the head.’ That’s when I thought, ‘Wow, I’m going to have to start dealing with things in a different way.’
I feel like I have been a quick study in terms of picking up the different offensive schemes I have been exposed to. I think I offer a dependability and dedication that is very important to being successful.
As a journalist, I’ve been a professional watcher, picking up the body language and verbal tics that make us individuals and interesting to others.
I’m the oldest of four, I have three siblings, and I think I kind of grew up aggravating and picking at them.
But there were highs as well as lows, it was as though they said everybody was picking on the man who had more practical real life experiences than the whole batch of them put together.
For me, picking a college was really difficult. I wish I had had my parents there kind of supervising me. But I chose well. I did OK.
It’s about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner… I live my life at these two extremes. I’m either a full-time stay-at-home mom or a full-time actress.
I’m always fetishizing the French woman and French taste and style. My assistant will make fun of me because every time we’re picking the direction of a collection, I say the same thing: ‘I want it to be really French.’
I’m not in a rush to do anything. And I wouldn’t say I pick and choose. When it comes to producers picking people for roles I don’t think it’s between me and Tom Cruise, do you know what I mean?
I’ve never been much into picking things apart.
There is an art to eavesdropping, but I think to some extent we are all guilty of picking up those little odds and ends that can be quite intriguing if you analyse them.
I guess I knew my dad was into photography, so a part of me was interested in picking it up to understand him a little better.
I was never, like, picking on people or anything like that. I was more the other way around. I was a little insecure, I was broke.
When I worked for Planned Parenthood, we had a specific protocol that we had to follow when picking up our abortion doctor. Looking back, I realize how crazy this was, but at the time, I felt like I was a part of some super secret high-level security task force.
As a model, we come in the room, and we are casted just on our looks. I think I’m funny; I think I’m clever. But in the end, they’re picking me for my cheekbones or if I’m tall enough.
I’m not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.
One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
