Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters one thing; to be able to dare!
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.
I wake up in the morning I do a little stretching exercises pick up the horn and play.
We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.
We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us food was part of the fabric of our day.
Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask What's wrong with him how much will it cost and when can I pick him up?
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.
High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.