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Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
Mae West

Two, Before, Between

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
Confucius

Good, Men, Teacher

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.
Audrey Hepburn

Future, Past, Enjoy

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston Churchill

Men, Truth, Nothing

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
Mark Twain

Good, Lost, While

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.
Mark Twain

Fight, Ink, Buy

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston Churchill

Truth, Nothing, Off

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Winston Churchill

Time, Truth, Himself

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
Warren Buffett

Direction, Behavior, Whose

Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.
Eminem

Life, Home, Nice

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
Oscar Wilde

Others, Away, Afraid

I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.
Muhammad Ali

Greatest, Round, Double

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.
Marilyn Monroe

Change, Women, Start

Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing.
Eminem

Love, Good, Best

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt

Good, Best, Done

I feel like a spoilt rapper. I get to pick and choose everything.
Eminem

Everything, Choose, Rapper

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Smart, Sure, Fellow

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
Octavia Butler

Time, Art, Friend

Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.
Marsha Sinetar

Power, Morning, After

To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.
Dave Pelzer

Best, Yourself, Help

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.
Marilyn Manson

Best, Truth, Real

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
John Muir

Everything, Find, Try

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
Wilma Rudolph

Life, Time, Great

A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego.
Roseanne Barr

The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.
Bill Gates

Tough, Few, Careful

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.
Thurgood Marshall

Teacher, Down, Here

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
Stephen King

Good, Bad, Book

People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.
Lisa See

Friendship, Time, True

Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.
James Cameron

Everything, Friends, Small

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.
Charlie Chaplin

Nothing, Remember, Stoop

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