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Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.
John F. Kennedy

Long, Before, Place

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.
Groucho Marx

Laughter, Book, Down

I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.
Lady Gaga

School, Different, Loser

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
Richard Bach

Life, Fear, Meaning

I've had moments when I've thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there's some vibration, some connection.
Clint Eastwood

Thought, Somebody, Call

There hasn't been anybody whose life has been picked apart and distorted as much as mine.
Hillary Clinton

Life, Anybody, Whose

Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.
Jim Carrey

Since, Started, Fans

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Douglas William Jerrold

Happiness, Strangers, Grows

My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.
Harvey Fierstein

Change, Sex, Thought

If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.
Chuck Palahniuk

Find, Almost, Stuff

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.
Beverly Cleary

Sunday, Book, Rainy

Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.
Jimmy Page

Character, Person, Different

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.
Alice Walker

Women, Mother, Strong

The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it.
Norman Rockwell

Great, Happy, Country

I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.
Larry David

Good, Future, Person

Why couldn't Obama have picked somebody respectable as his running mate, you know, like John Kerry did?
Ann Coulter

Why, Somebody, Running

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.
Mick Jagger

Business, Creative, Artist

I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour - that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like 'Three Men in a Boat.'
Terry Pratchett

Men, True, Find

If you are at a boys' school, especially, there is a level of bravado that you have to keep up otherwise you'll get picked on.
Tom Hiddleston

School, Keep, Level

I picked up an issue of Cosmopolitan the other day that had tips for job interviews, because I was like, 'I need to get better at interviews.' The article was basically about how to get someone not to hate you in 20 minutes. Every single thing they told you not to do, I was like, 'I do that every day.'
Jennifer Lawrence

Hate, Job, Someone

Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.
Charles Kuralt

Good, Luck, Worship

I stand up for other people, I'm very protective of people around me. If I feel like somebody is getting a bad rap or being unfairly picked on, I will stand up for them, absolutely.
Christina Ricci

Bad, Around, Getting

You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.
Rand Paul

Home, Government, Enough

Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
Larry David

Married, Seen, Says

When I came back to it, we amicably separated from Warner Bros. I just picked up where I left off, trying to write the rest of this record. It took awhile to get out.
Joan Jett

Trying, Off, Write

I have had no control over my life. I have lived in a complete bubble. They found me and picked me for the part. And now I'm desperately trying to find my way through it.
Emma Watson

Life, Control, Through

Nobody likes to be picked on. Nobody.
Whitney Houston

A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm.
James Thomas Fields

Life, Wife, Him

There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist.
Maynard James Keenan

Once, Artist, Doctor

He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar.
Pete Townshend

Guitar, King, Link

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