Top 530 Picked Quotes

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I've heard a lot about what second-round picks usually

I’ve heard a lot about what second-round picks usually do – whether it’s D-League or whether it’s not playing – but for me, I have high expectations of myself regardless of where I’m picked.
Malcolm Brogdon
So I picked a field where I had a little exposure. Where I thought I could have an enormous challenge, and have a chance to really do some good, to be a pioneer in an area, and not just be like everyone else.
Henry Kravis
My high school experience was pretty good, but my middle school experience was god awful. It was horrible. I got picked on like no tomorrow.
Zachary Levi
I picked up the Joss Stone album, Josh Groban, and the new Norah Jones. I love, love, love Norah.
Deborah Cox
Most people don’t even know what a trombone is. It’s not that popular as a front instrument… I picked it up and fell in love with it as a kid. It’s a difficult instrument, but I like doing things that seem impossible.
Trombone Shorty
I don’t pick the leader of another party. Likud picked Netanyahu.
Ayelet Shaked
I’ve picked up a lot of fans from doing ‘Ugly Betty’: a lot of teenagers who didn’t even know I had a singing career.
Vanessa Williams
I picked all the tunes before I went to Memphis, and the band was all set. Willie Mitchell is an arranger like I am, and he let me do what I had to do.
Otis Rush
If I don’t like what I’m wearing, you can see it on my face in any picture right away. It makes a big difference when you feel like you’re wearing your style, and it’s something that you picked out, or you feel really good in it.
Brittany Snow
When I first picked up an instrument, nothing really happened. I played piano when I was a little kid. I hated it so much, I actually don’t play piano now.
Phoebe Bridgers
I grew up a skinny Asian kid who was often ignored or picked on. It stuck with me and branded my soul. As I grew up, I tried to stick up for whoever seemed excluded or marginalized.
Andrew Yang
It was while I was in the mental hospital that I got my letter from the British Olympic Association saying, ‘Congratulations. You’ve been picked to go to the Olympic Games.’ I kept stressing I wasn’t a patient.
Eddie the Eagle
When I was in high school, the drama teacher picked me to play Iago in ‘Othello.’
Jeff Perry
Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger’s skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.
John F. Kennedy
Only lately, like within the last few years, have I had people actually do an impression of me to me, which weirds me out to think of what they have picked up on, without ever realizing it myself.
Todd Barry
I picked up the guitar when I was 4, and from then, I could never be bored.
Eliot Sumner
I have my own personal masticating juicer at home. I sort of picked it up from friends a few years ago, and it just gives me more energy. Mostly green juice. Spinach, celery, kale, green apples, lemon, sometimes ginger – you know, like, nasty, euuugghhhh!
Chadwick Boseman
That’s what my Dad always told me, on the ballot, they should always have a third choice, like none of the above, then if enough people picked that, they’d have to get new candidates.
Meg White
I think kids growing up, if they were picked on and feeling inferior at 12, they’re going to feel that way at 72. You just deal with it better. I’m serious.
Sylvester Stallone
A lot of guys picked up an instrument because they couldn’t get girls to pay attention to them in high school. They turned to the guitar as a sure-fire aphrodisiac. And most of the time, it did the trick.
Bebe Buell
I was playing a singer-songwriter, so I started writing, and I started going up to different places around Los Angeles and reading poetry of my own, which terrified me, but I had to do it. I picked up a guitar and started learning guitar.
Inbar Lavi
Everything around me is surreal. I get picked up in cars and go to celebrity bashes, and I get sponsorship on clothes, and it’s great, and I really enjoy it. But you should remember where it all started: the music. That’s the key.
Craig David
I don’t think I picked up a ‘Vogue’ until I was, like, 16.
Devon Windsor
I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was good to be task – based for a while. I just came downstairs each day, picked the one I was going to do that day, and wrote.
Simon Armitage
I ran the high school newspaper and was in student government. I played sports my whole life but was never picked as captain.
Bing Gordon
You want to buy cars and houses and castles, all of that’s on you and how America has systematized your mind to be into materialism. Hip-hop ain’t got nothing to do with that. I’m glad that anybody making money has picked themselves up – I just want them to give some of it back to the community.
Afrika Bambaataa
Whenever I used to do sports at school, there were those children who were picked last. I just wasn’t picked at all.
Boyan Slat
I don’t like to be picked on. Growing up where I did you learn to fight.
Dizzee Rascal
I knew I wanted to be an actress, but I hadn’t ever really told anyone. I’d always got quite good grades, so people assumed I would go and do a ‘normal’ job. My dad took me to my first audition for drama school and picked me up without anyone knowing, really.
Kimberley Nixon
Farz’ proved to be a flop for the first 10 weeks. I remember buying tickets worth Rs 5000 myself, just so the film would run in theatres longer. And in the 11th week the film miraculously picked up and ran for 50 weeks!
Jeetendra
I’ve put myself forward to be involved. Whether I get picked, we’ll have to wait and see. Obviously everybody is excited about it, about the Olympics coming to London and the football being played in different parts of Britain.
Ryan Giggs
In agriculture, people have taken wild plants that can'

In agriculture, people have taken wild plants that can’t be eaten by people – and turned them into wonderful food sources. And that’s because genomes can change, and people working with plants have picked mutations. Mutations are nothing more than genetic changes.
Nina Fedoroff
In 1995, the Chinese government picked a 6-year-old child to succeed the Panchen Lama, the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism.
Barbara Demick
I get picked on by my older brother and sister, and I get yelled at for picking on my little brother and for not cleaning my room.
Austin Rivers
Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It’s been a case of learning on the job. I’ve worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I’ve picked bits up from everyone and everything.
Felicity Jones
Once, Naseeruddin Shah told me that the wafer shop was the best acting school that I could have attended. And I completely agree. I observed every customer very minutely and picked up some quirk or the other. Later, I used those experiences while playing different characters.
Boman Irani
So we led our lives in nature and spent a lot of time together as a family. That’s how we picked things up and learned about life.
Akiane Kramarik
You can never predict what’s going to be successful, so you have to do the one you really love, and I picked ‘Mad Men.’
Christina Hendricks
Because too much of my life was spent waiting to be seen. Hoping to be seen, hoping to be picked. Once you realize that you aren’t looked at that way any more, other things start to happen and you have to depend on other things to get by.
Diane Keaton
The Sixties were different in an isolated place. We got two television channels if the wind was blowing in the right direction. The radio stations went off at sundown. Then you picked up Chicago and heard the teenage music you really yearned for.
Charles Frazier
As an actress – and as an actor, too, but it’s worse for actresses – you constantly get picked apart for how you look.
Lizzy Caplan
If you concede early against a quality team, you have to play more openly – and can get picked off.
Lothar Matthaus
I picked up ‘On Moral Fiction’ in the bookstore and looked up myself in the index, but I didn’t read it through. I try not to read things that depress me.
John Updike
I kiss grandmas because they’re clean. I haven’t picked anything up from a grandma yet.
Don Ho
While I was in school, a local magazine picked the 10 best students, and they picked me and profiled me in the magazine.
Punit Renjen
When Sean came to meet my parents, the first thing my dad did when he picked him up at the airport was to take him right to a shooting range. My dad was like, ‘I want to see how he shoots.’
Kemp Muhl
I basically sat down for a month, with all the Sun stuff I could find and just picked out my favorites. I didn’t think that they were indicative of ’54 to ’57, although I tried to stay within that period.
Brian Setzer
I stopped playing the drums when I was ten, and I picked up Rubik’s Cubes. I was doing that for a while, and then I got into cinematography.
Rich Brian
I was a keen observer and listener. I picked up on clues. I figured things out logically, and I enjoyed puzzles. I loved the clear, focused feeling that came when I concentrated on solving a problem and everything else faded out.
Sonia Sotomayor
I don’t have to carry myself as anybody that I’m not, and people picked up on it.
Chance The Rapper
My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
Val Kilmer
I have to get a workout in in the morning. Once my day starts, I’ll have the best intentions, and it still won’t happen: one of the kids needs to be picked up somewhere, I have to hop on a conference call, or I’m just tired. So I get it done in the A.M.
Laila Ali
From the time I was very little and I first picked up a ball, in the back of my head I thought I would coach the game.
Doris Burke
And my father didn’t have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn’t have black quarterbacks, and I don’t think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5′ 11″. So I just picked baseball.
Willie Mays