I had an assistant for a hot minute, because that was offered to me. And literally, after a day I was like, "I don't like this. I don't like someone else making the decisions that I should be making. " I'm very busy, yes, but I'm not so busy that I can't make my own decisions. I want people to contact me directly about what time I'm being picked up in the morning.
There will always be someone being picked on at school, and it's not going to go away
Here is a semi-transparent pebble I picked up on the way to my EKG. Probably worthless but it is my heart so take it.
I got picked on a lot as a kid.
I think I deliberately sold out a couple of times. I picked the songs that I thought would do well in the marketplace, even though I didn't really love the song.
The democratization of news is fine and splendid, but it's not reporting. It's based on a fragment of information picked up from television or the web, and people are sounding off about something that's not necessarily true.
So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said 'Who's speaking please?' And a voice said 'You are. '
If I'd never have picked up the first person, I'd never have picked up the 42,000 in Calcutta.
An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.
We taped all this and then got it transcribed and picked the best lines or ideas or ways to take a scene. I've done that many times, and it can improve the script but also wreck a perfectly good scene.
I picked up a guitar, and I knew what I wanted to do.
I'd tax the Daily Mail [if I were a Prime Minister] so high no one could afford to buy it. I hate that paper, I think it's really vicious. I picked one up the other day and every single page is about hate. It's just so negative.
Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up by some bunglers and dragged into the street, to more fools like themselves, and one suddenly meets it in the flea market, unrecognizable, dirty, askew, absurdly presented, without proportion, without harmony, a toy for stupid children.
People tell me that Senator Edwards got picked for his good looks, his sex appeal, and his great hair. I say to them: How do you think I got the job?
I look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand.
When I fell into modeling, because I wanted to work in fashion. I wanted to do styling or make-up. I ended getting picked up to be a model instead during my work experience.
I don’t think I could have picked a worse guy to be my soul mate.
I picked up this book called Blue Mountain, supposed to be a really good book on the Civil War.
I get around OK with a toolbox. As a kid, I picked up skills following my dad through the oil fields of Oklahoma and West Texas. My wife Janine is hard to impress, but she does think it's cool when I fix things around the house.