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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Barbara Olson Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice.
    Barbara Olson
    American lawyer (1955 - 2001)
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  • Alvin Toffler Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
    Alvin Toffler
    American writer, futurist, and businessman (1928 - 2016)
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  • Beth Brooke As an athlete, you sort of just win every day. Because you're going to sometimes lose every day. And so you just keep picking yourself up and going forward.
    Beth Brooke
    American businesswoman and athelete (1959 - )
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  • Billy Connolly As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It's something they reserve just for me.
    Billy Connolly
    Scottish stand-up comedian, musician, actor (1942 - )
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  • Bill Keller Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite.
    Bill Keller
    American journalist (1949 - )
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  • Ben Zobrist For me, it's not so much about picking the right position; it's about the team.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Antonin Scalia If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.
    Antonin Scalia
    American jurist (1936 - 2016)
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  • Jack Lemmon If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
    Jack Lemmon
    American actor (1925 - 2001)
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  • Sam Levenson It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors.
    Sam Levenson
    American author (1911 - 1980)
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  • Busta Rhymes It's almost not safe to be an artist, the way everybody is randomly picking people to feud with.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Anna Quindlen New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Caity Lotz On 'Death Valley,' I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.
    Caity Lotz
    American actress, dancer and singer (1986 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken 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.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Ben Shapiro Selective Biblical quotation is a favorite of leftists who interpret the Bible the same way they do the Constitution: as a Chinese menu designed to allow picking and choosing. That's because when many Democrats take the Bible as a whole, they realize how much they despise it.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Raoul Vaneigem The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Seng-Ts'an The ultimate Path is without difficulty. Just avoid picking and choosing.
    Seng-Ts'an
    Chinese third patriarch of Zen Buddhism
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  • Adam Garcia You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.
    Adam Garcia
    Australian actor (1973 - )
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  • Ambrose Bierce Philanthropist. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Philanthropist: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
    The Devil's Dictionary
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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