Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
I’m a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.
It’s a big decision to pick what country I’m going to play for.
I’ve hit the Pick 6 for a hundred thousand a couple of times. A few more for 60, 70 thousand.
When we look at the situation in Ferguson, Missouri and the tragic death of Michael Brown, we are reminded of the importance of who we elect to our city councils, who sits on our local board of education committees, who we pick to represent us in Congress, in the Senate and more.
I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn’t meant to be done for 25 years.
You’ve got to try to find ways to dominate in any way – it ain’t about getting sacks, it’s about making the big plays. If that’s pressing the quarterback, making them throw a pick – whatever you’ve got to do to try to dominate the game.
Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
For me, something will come in my head and I’ll either end up calling my cell phone to record it, or I’ll just pick my guitar up and see what comes out. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it doesn’t. So there’s really no set method behind it.
If you love acting and you’ve ever experienced theater, then you know that in a movie it’s almost impossible to live out that experience, unless you’re a Pacino or a De Niro or somebody who gets to pick their parts.
I’d pick a young white guy over an old white guy for president anytime because the younger guy is more likely to have been influenced by the great social changes of the ’60s and ’70s.
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?
The cost of adding a feature isn’t just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. The trick is to pick the features that don’t fight each other.
When people note that more and more voters are cutting their landline phones and that more and more people are refusing to pick up phone calls from numbers they don’t know, they are identifying problems that the polling industry has long struggled with and continue to try to adapt to.
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that translates literature is to get the audience, after seeing this version, to pick up the book and read it themselves. My attitude is that TV can never really be any form of art, because it serves audience expectations.
Employees make the best dates. You don’t have to pick them up and they’re always tax-deductible.
I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch – that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it’s: ‘Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.’
We all fall off the wagon. It’s only one day; it’s not the rest of your life. Pick yourself up and go again.
I love food – all kinds of food, and I feel like I am never full. Sushi is my favorite if I had to pick.
Right now I just want to chill for a while. Take a hiatus from all the craziness. To clean my house, see my family. Just see some movies and pick some strawberries.
Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.
I’m not a wilting flower. I’m honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I’ve burned a lot of bridges.
You can always pick up stuff when you’re watching a high level – it’s like with anything – so yeah, I watch a lot of football.
Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.
Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.
I’m going to have to pick my shots and play great tennis.
Jupiter, Pluto, pick a planet: we can go there. I just got a bit more work to do in the music industry, and we’re going to space, baby.
I love shopping! I look for new shopping portals. I keep buying a lot of stuff online. I don’t follow any one person per se, but if I feel that the particular wear will look good on me, I pick it up without thinking.
Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books – one I’ve read a dozen times – and still slide right into the story.
Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you. Pick people who are interested in what you’re interested in.
I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star.
I don’t hate redheads! The millionaire men – wealthy men – never pick them. Every time I offer them they say no. I could say the most gorgeous redhead in the world and they’ll say no, they don’t want it. Now if you ask an Irish guy in Ireland, he says ‘yes,’ because that’s indigenous to that country.
I just have always felt that I think we know that it’s an ensemble show, and it’s very hard to pick a show to submit when you’re nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.
Here, you can walk into a bookstore and pick up a Bible or Christian literature and learn. Over there, they are lucky if they have one Bible for a whole village.
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
I’m easy to pick on because I’m a string bean.
Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
Though acting offers would keep coming and going, and I would pick up only the ones that I find good, my hands are literally full with candles… I can’t think beyond them.
It just doesn’t go with my story to be a first round pick, because I had to grind my whole life.
I love the fact that people don’t see the ukulele as a serious instrument. A lot of people see it as more of a toy, and I love that because it just proves that people aren’t intimidated by the instrument. They aren’t afraid to pick it up.
It’s that kind of in-born music thing – I could pick up the guitar and play something. It’s not something I consciously do.
I’m a fan of Kobe and LeBron. People always try to make me pick one or the other, but I think they’re both great. They both deliver.
I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.
I tend to pick on the people I’m closest with because I know they know it’s not personal.
I pick projects according to how fascinating they are to me, and it has resulted in a broad reach. My records are actually in five different sports: balloons, airplanes, airships, gliders, and sailboats.
Anyone who’s got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some ’50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That’s it, really – I’m not a musician, I’m not a singer.
There’s something so empowering about knowing I can pick up an axe and split a piece of wood.
It’s about taking advantage of the opportunities you have right now, and right now we’re in a position where you call somebody and they’re willing to pick up and take the call because they’re a fan, you have to take advantage of that and have a chance to capitalize on your ideas.
I actually have to pick and chose stuff that I know I’m going to bomb at.
It was my mother’s idea. Her feeling was that I didn’t have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
Being a strongman is a real test of functional strength. What can you pick up, carry and how fast can you move it. It’s not a weight room strength, it takes brute strength and power to lift, carry and pull all types objects from fire engines, Mack trucks, transport planes and large stones.
When you’re the presidential nominee you get to pick whomever you choose to be on the ticket, and that person gets to say yes or no because, obviously, it’s a very important decision.
I used to hang out with grandfather all the time because he used to pick me up from school sometimes, or drive me to my mother’s, so I’d be with my grandfather a lot. I used to watch him write his sermons.
I didn’t know how to box so I would have looked like a complete street fighter actually, but what we did have to do was pick up some sides and then just memorize them within two days and go there and audition.
I pick up on styles, way before they get popular, pretty much before young kids do. I see ’em coming.
Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left to their own devices, markets pick expensive banking losers.
I don’t like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don’t play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.
One major should not get you into the Hall of Fame – maybe one major and 40 wins. I’m not gonna pick a guy with one major and 11 wins.
Whether you’re a quarterback and you just threw a pick, or you’re a corner and you just got beat for a touchdown, you’ve got to have a short-term memory, shake it off and play the next play.
