#picked

The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever. ↗

— John Gunther

#city #comparison #copy #crime #crooks

Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it. ↗

— Juliana Hatfield

#electric #electric guitar #got #guitar #i

I hate being looked at. Can't stand it. I know, I know - I picked the wrong career. I should have been a doctor. If you play certain parts you have this nice face painted on you, and then you have feel as if you have a responsibility to this idea of being beautiful. I hate that about our business. ↗

— Lena Headey

#beautiful #been #being #being beautiful #business

It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without our knowing what's going on. ↗

— Andrew J. Bacevich

#being #going #knowing #much #our

I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf. ↗

— Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#give #give me #golf #good #i

I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying. ↗

— Penelope Spheeris

#copies #decline #flea #i #ii

Only lately, like within the last few years, have I had people actually do an impression of me to me, which weirds me out to think of what they have picked up on, without ever realizing it myself. ↗

— Todd Barry

#ever #few #had #i #impression

I had developed a sitcom with UPN, but it wasn't picked up. ↗

— Charisma Carpenter

#had #i #picked #sitcom #up

I've always thought that having an attractive free agent is better than a guy who was picked in the seventh round. ↗

— David Dunn

#always #attractive #better #free #free agent

My dear, since Eve picked the apple no woman's ever been taken entirely unawares. When a woman's kissed it's because, deep down, she wants to be kissed. ↗

— Philip Dunne

#because #been #dear #deep #deep down