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You got to play a hundred and fifty games a year, so pick your spots. You can miss two games a month; so pick the days you're gonna be hurt, or you're gonna rest or you're gonna have a drink or two. The rest of the time, be on that field.

Quote by Hank Aaron about games, rest, drinking, contentment, day, time

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about poetry, recollection, nature, memory, imagination, poets

I'm going to have to pick my shots and play great tennis.

I'm going to have to pick my shots and play great tennis.

Quote by Andre Agassi

I'm my own worst enemy sometimes when I pick projects.

I'm my own worst enemy sometimes when I pick projects.

Quote by Kim Basinger about enemies

We cannot blame the schools alone for the dismal decline in SAT verbal scores. When our kids come home from school do they pick up a book or do they sit glued to the tube, watching music videos? Parents, don't make the mistake of thinking your kid...

Quote by George W. Bush about decline, mistake, parents, thinking, school, home, music

Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the...

Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.

Quote by Michael Caine about career, time

So, you pick this stuff here and this stuff there and then you see things in certain ways and you start visualizing and thank God I get the chance to do this. It's really the greatest thing in the whole wide world.

Quote by Danny DeVito about contentment, things, chance, god, world

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of...

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Quote by Winston Churchill about truth, time, man

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them...

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Quote by Winston Churchill about truth, man, nothing

Most people stumble over the truth, now and then, but...

Most people stumble over the truth, now and then, but they usually manage to pick themselves up and go on, anyway.

Quote by Winston Churchill about truth, people

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us...

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Quote by Winston Churchill about truth, nothing

Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a...

Quote by Eminem about school, home, life

I think first impressions are important when you pick up...

I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script.

Quote by Dennis Farina about contentment

I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to...

I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to London. People look at you. People are ready to pick arguments.

Quote by Colin Firth about nation, people, contentment

That's like asking you to pick your favorite child... I...

That's like asking you to pick your favorite child... I do however, think Bird on a Wire was one of my finest works. Oscar caliber.

Quote by Mel Gibson about children, contentment

You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.

Quote by Larry Hagman about clothes, dream, things, contentment

It's hard to pick out one particular wrestler.

It's hard to pick out one particular wrestler.

Quote by Owen Hart

I got a burden on my mind and I'm reaching the strength...

I got a burden on my mind and I'm reaching the strength to pick it up.

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about burden, mind

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard...

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about paradise

It's a joy to be recognized and to have people that are...

It's a joy to be recognized and to have people that are interested in what you do. That can pick up your whole day.

Quote by Don Johnson about joy, day, people, contentment

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