#picked

Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world. ↗

— Bruce Barton

#business #conquered #forged #into #jesus

There was so long from when we did the pilot and then when the show was eventually picked up by Comedy Central - and, in fact, we had to shoot the pilot twice. ↗

— Thomas Lennon

#comedy #comedy central #did #eventually #fact

Ali's belief in himself was something I picked up on, and it's become my own philosophy. ↗

— Sugar Ray Leonard

#become #belief #himself #i #my own

Every job has its downside. For example, being in a band; the travel part of it - getting picked up from your house in a car, going to the airport, getting on a plane, going from the airplane to a van, then going from the van to a hotel. ↗

— Dave Lombardo

#airport #band #being #car #downside

I'm the age now that Rock was when he picked me up, so I can understand how he felt - how his fame limited his freedom. You get kinder as you go along. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#along #fame #felt #freedom #get

And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11". So I just picked baseball. ↗

— Willie Mays

#basketball #because #black #college #could

I wasn't really geeky. In terms of the high school hierarchy, I was very much in the middle ground. You have the really popular guys, you have the nerdy guys, and then you have the people who really don't care - and that was me. I wasn't really picked on or anything like that. ↗

— Callan McAuliffe

#care #geeky #ground #guys #hierarchy

You want to feel that you can do something creative that you love without being picked apart and mutilated for other people's pleasure. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#being #creative #feel #love #other

I think if you're an actor, then you can work on stage - but if you've never done it before, you're going to have picked up a few things that you're going to need to change when you're working on stage. ↗

— Dominic Monaghan

#before #change #done #few #few things

If you were in the film industry at that time, you were always picked up by directors who were much older. You were whisked about and shown things. I did work very hard though. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#always #did #directors #film #film industry