Cherry Pick Quotes

#1. The system knows how to cherry pick black people. It's like affirmative action - once a year, one is recognized. But what has to occur is self-emergence so if they ignore you, you don't have to disappear.

Haile Gerima

#2. It's dangerous to cherry-pick a few stand-alone verses, particularly when they are used as a weapon to silence and intimidate, effectively benching half the church5 in the midst of holy harvest season when the harvest is plentiful and the workers are few.

Sarah Bessey

#3. There are many ways in which journalists can mislead a reader with science: they can cherry-pick the evidence, or massage the statistics; they can pit hysteria and emotion against cold, bland statements from authority figures.

Ben Goldacre

#4. You cherry-pick events that are relevant to the story question and construct a gauntlet of challenge (read: the plot) that will force the protagonist to put his money where his mouth is. Think baptism by ever-escalating fire.

Lisa Cron

#5. I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#6. People like to cherry-pick the parts of their career that they're either in the midst of or that they're the most proud of, but the truth is careers and lives are tapestries.

Mike Rowe

#7. Prosecutors are allowed to cherry-pick what evidence, if any, that they do present to a grand jury. So the grand jury process overall is flawed. And that's why it should not be utilized in this case and so many cases that are similar to this.

Sharon Cooper

#8. Science is not there for you to cherry pick ... You can decide whether or not to believe in it but that doesn't change the reality of an emergent scientific truth.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#9. If you were looking at where you would like your career to go, then you would have to cherry pick The Stones. People love coming to see them. They are it, they are the most definitive rock n roll band ever.

Andy Taylor

#10. There is a rampant tendency in any industry where someone is trying to sell something with a bunch of data, where they cherry pick a little bit ... bias a little bit. This becomes quite easy when there is an enormous amount of data to cherry pick from.

Burt Rutan

#11. If you pay attention to good critics, you have to listen to the bad. So you have to ignore them all really. You can't just cherry pick the glowing ones.

Ricky Gervais

#12. I claim that all those who think they can cherry-pick science simply don't understand how science works. That's what I claim. And if they did, they'd be less prone to just assert that somehow scientists are clueless.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#13. Politicians or pundits can distort or cherry-pick climate science any way they want to try and gain temporary influence with the public. But any serious industrialist who's facing 'climate exposure' - as it's now called by money managers - cannot afford to engage in that sort of self-delusion.

Clive Thompson

#14. Not taking the Bible (or other texts based on 'revealed truths') literally leaves it up to the reader to cherry-pick elements for belief. There exists no guide for such cherry-picking, and zero religious sanction for it.

Jeffrey Tayler

#15. Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.

Thomas Sowell

#16. I think that one of the strengths of Cop Shoot Cop lay in the different, and at times, clashing personalities, Ideally, I want to have both ways of working in my life.

Jim Coleman

#17. Censoring what you say is one of the ways in which people who are not nice can take away your personal freedom.

Frank Zappa

#18. No," I said. "I can't remember doing this."
"Oh," Rena made and gestured dramatically. "You don't remember it. And that automatically means you didn't do it?

Lili Frings

#19. So is this being in love? I stay with the moment, waiting to find out, the space between us fluctuating with uncertainty. The only thing I am sure of is that each time his lips leave mine they are right back again.

Kea Alwang

#20. What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?
as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!

George Bernard Shaw

#21. On one hand, as a filmmaker, I don't want to make a movie with guns everywhere.

Jim McKay

#22. Marshall McLuhan is absolutely right, we are always looking in the rear view mirror.

Margaret Atwood

#23. With every leaf that falls the tree loses a memory.

Marty Rubin

#24. I'm a visual thinker, not a language-based thinker. My brain is like Google Images.

Temple Grandin

#25. My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.

Padma Lakshmi