We were kids without fathers, so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history, and in a way, that was a gift. We got to pick and choose the ancestors who would inspire the world we were going to make for ourselves.
I listened very, very carefully to the world around me to pick up the signals of when trouble was coming. Not that I could stop it. But it made me observant. That was helpful when I became a lawyer, because I knew how to read people's signals.
When you're working in the [film] industry and you're working with people who are well known and are so regarded, you do just pick up on things. Seeing the way that people hold themselves and compose themselves before a scene - it's inspirational.
I've had failures, don't get me wrong, but it wasn't beneath me to pick up the phone and introduce myself to Bernard Malamud and say, "I'd like to introduce myself to you and to come meet you. I think I might have something that's worthy of your skills as a writer. "
When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.
Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.
If you are smart, you never retire. You may retire from that job you have had for many years, but you will pick up another career for yourself of some type.
Go home, pick up your video camera, and make a film.
Even if you're walking through the airport or going to pick up your mail, if you meet a fan and they have a camera, they will take a picture of you and millions could potentially see that picture - if it's picked up by a blog or whatever.
When you dance with the devil, you don't get to pick the tune.
When there aren't any smart decisions, I suppose you just have to pick the stupid decision you like best.
I met a lot of amazing people whose lives were changed (for the better) by the power of music. Music gave them strength to get out of abusive relationships or to just pick up a musical instrument and learn to play.
We are best friends. Always remember that if you fall, I will pick you up. after I finish laughing.
[Billie Holiday] was keeping it super real, and you can feel that to this day. Everything that she sang, she believed in. So I had to pick songs that I felt the same about.
Love what you do. Believe in your instincts. And you'd better be able to pick yourself up and brush yourself off every day.
I haven't gone home with anybody who tried to pick me up in a long time.
How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off.
There are geologists who can pick up a rock and say, 'Yes, there's oil under there. ' A geologist who has been studying those kinds of rocks for 10 or 20 years is able to make that pronouncement.
When we talk about magic a lot of people think you use that to pick up girls. So therefore there's this slimy connotation associated with it, like, "Oh hey, pick a card - my number's on it!" So I think I've avoided ever having people think that's what's happening. I try to make magic the treat of the interaction or the treat of the flirt. I've never gone up and tried to do a trick to get a girl's number, only because I feel like that's what people expect and it feels slimy.
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.