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«Anything you can do needs to be done, so pick up the tool of your choice and get started»

Author: Ben Linder | Keywords: get started, pick up, tool

«[Burt Lancaster] couldn't pick up an ashtray before discussing his motivation for an hour or so.»

Author: Jeanne Moreau | Keywords: ashtray, Burt, discussing, Lancaster, motivation, or so, pick up

«If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality»

Author: Walter Gropius (Architect) | Keywords: contribution, immortality, pick up, vital

«If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think of it, theoretically or philosophically. It's really absurd to make an image, like a human image, with paint, today.»

Author: Willem de Kooning (Painter) | Keywords: brush, philosophically, pick up, theoretically

«A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone.»

Author: Aesop (Author, Fabulist) | Keywords: binding, bunch, bundle, bundles, bundling, challenged, differ, ease, farmer, for anything, in parallel, in vain, laying, match, My Sons, one by one, parallel, paralleled, pick up, quarrelsome, separate, sons, sticks, The Father, the sticks, undone, untie, untied, untying

«Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.»

Author: Babe Ruth (Baseball Player) | Keywords: checks, pick up

«He can't get away with that shit [that he's the sexiest man alive] at home. He's not Brad Pitt. He's Brad, pick up your stuff. He's Brad, shut the door. He's my Brad.»

Author: Jennifer Aniston (Actress) | Keywords: brad, Brad Pitt, get away, pick up, Pitt, sexier, sexiest, shit, with that

«If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.»

Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: between, bite, bite out, bit by bit, difference, dog, dogged, dogging, dog bite, him, make, man, pick, picking up, pick at, pick out, pick over, pick up, principal, prosperous, starves, starving, That Dog, that is

«If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. That is the difference between dog and man.»

Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: dog bite, pick, pick up, prosperous, starves, starving

«He who pelts every barking dog must pick up many stones»

Author: Proverb | Keywords: barking, pelt, pelting, pelts, pick up, stones

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