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"God picks us up where we are, not where we should have been"
"I always felt that if somebody picks on you it's because they're not happy doing what they're doing."
"I'd pick fortune over fame any day."
"Now I get to pick and choose exactly what I want to do."
"The thing about stories is you have to pick the ones that last."
"See a pin and pick it up, and, all day long, you'll have a pin."
"If we pick out which parts of the Bible we dislike, we actually have a god we've created. How can that god ever call you out on anything?"
"Everyone picks the best one when given a choice."
"Don't wait to be picked. Pick yourself."
"When we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other."
"If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He's everything that I'm not."
"Our cultural instinct is to wait to get pickedNo one is going to pick you. Pick yourself."
"If God calls you, pick up the damn phone!"
"Why would anyone pick blue over pink? Pink is obviously a better colour."
"A good bargaine is a pick-purse. [A good bargain is a pick-purse.]"
"Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again."
"You don't pick dance. Dance picks you."
"I never have, but I would love to pick R. Kelly's brain."
"I see somebody dying, I pick him up."