Don't pick on your sister when she's holding a baseball bat.
A kid that picks up a record, he doesn't need to know anything other than the music and have it in his or her headphones. They're getting ideas directly, it's like someone whispering in their ear. That's such a personal way to receive information.
The only justification for looking down on anyone is that you're going to stop and pick them up.
Don't wait to be picked. Pick yourself.
Quick, how do you pick up a cat?" "Buy her a drink.
We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer.
Our cultural instinct is to wait to get pickedNo one is going to pick you. Pick yourself.
My worry about the New York Times is that it's got the only position as a national elitist general-interest paper. So the network news picks up its cues from the Times. And local papers do too. It has a huge influence. And we'd love to challenge it.
What I didn't do was pick one thing and keep saying it over and over again, so I could have gotten credit for it.
My dad is adorably optimistic, positive, pie-in-the-sky. He thinks every new song I write is my best. He sells T-shirts at my merchandise stands and hands out guitar picks to fans.
Too many people are buying gifts for themselves when they pick out a gift for a friend.
We pick up the pieces, Donna. Some of them are broken.
When someone picks up one of my songs and records it, I'm a flattered man, it's a blessing to me
I don't pick stuff up, I knock stuff down!
If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He's everything that I'm not.
I believe that cinema picks up ideas from society and not the other way round.
Art is like a lover whom you run away from but who comes back and picks you up.
As an old junk pusher told me, 'Watch whose money you pick up. '
In my couple of books, including Going Clear, the book about Scientology, I thought it seemed appropriate at the end of the book to help the reader frame things. Because we've gone through the history, and there's likely conflictual feelings in the reader's mind. The reader may not agree with me, but I don't try to influence the reader's judgment. I know everybody who picks this book up already has a decided opinion. But my goal is to open the reader's mind a little bit to alternative narratives.