Up Quotes

• The fans of 'The Hunger Games,' of the book, are very passionate. It's funny: Even at my concerts there are people holding up 'Cinna' signs.

  

  Lenny Kravitz
  • People
  • Book
  • Funny

• ...on youth unemployment - governments should ensure that one out of three of jobs in the public sector are opened up to the youth and that at least one person in every household should have access to a job.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Up
  • Job

• To be honest, for me, my main workout is when I'm on stage. Even though I make pop music, I don't think I perform in the classic 'pop star' sort of way. I'm very active on stage; I always end up dripping in sweat afterwards. It's always like a full-on, wild performance, so that's pretty much like my exercise, I would say.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Music
  • Pretty
  • Star

• R. Kelly is one of the pioneers that I grew up listening to. If he's classified as an R&B artist, then I want to be like that. I don't want to have limits either.

  

  Jeremih Felton
  • Up
  • Listening

• I can actually build my equipment at the back end of the telescope such that it takes the data from all of the separate antennas and adds the signal together with different time delays and different phase shifts - it's as if I were picking out up to eight individual pixels in this large field of view.

  

  Jill Tarter
  • Time
  • Different
  • Together

• One of my favorites is one called 'Rory's Radio' that I wrote about my brother Jeff's best friend growing up - his name was Rory Dunigan. I dedicated my first record to my brother, who got killed in a car accident in 1999, and I really didn't have any songs on the first album about him, nothing on a personal note.

  

  Ashton Shepherd
  • Growing
  • Friend
  • Car

• I feel like a lot of artists these days are going out with being a feminist and making it cool, and being outspoken and letting it be mainstream, which is a great thing. I absolutely think it should be mainstream to be a feminist, it should be a no-brainer to speak up about stuff and have a voice.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Great
  • Cool
  • Feminist

• What goes up can continue.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Up

• I was born and bred a Catholic. I was brought up a very strong Catholic - I practiced in a seminary for four years, from eleven to fourteen, and trained to be a Catholic priest. So I was very steeped in all that.

  

  Pete Postlethwaite
  • Up
  • Strong
  • Catholic

• I grew up on a sugar plantation in Trinidad, on an expat estate, and that meant I had no idea about money until a lot later than most children.

  

  Andrea McLean
  • Up
  • Children
  • Money

• The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Mountains
  • New Hampshire
  • Vermont

• I grew up in Brooklyn.

  

  Johnny Kelly Black Label Society
  • Up

• I get very caught up in the day-to-day and immersed in the scenes as they unfold. It's harder for me, as I'm filming, to see the larger story.

  

  Debra Granik
  • Up

• I love stand up, but every year, the road takes a little more out of you.

  

  Bill Engvall
  • Up
  • Road

• There's a burden of responsibility for me to show up correct - in my head, if I don't do it right, then I'll get shut out, and then other trans women of color will be shut out.

  

  Janet Mock
  • Women
  • Responsibility
  • Color

• 'Point Break' is a movie that I and all of my friends grew up loving, watching all the time, quoting, living and being.

  

  Luke Bracey
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Movie

• If genetic research doesn't seemed to have lived up to its therapeutic promise, it's because sequencing is just too slow and expensive.

  

  Luke Nosek
  • Up
  • Promise

• Lies don't fix things. They don't even make things easier, at least not in the long run. Best to tell the truth and then clean up an honest mess.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Lies

• 'Xyle XY' follows this boy who is like a newborn to the world - everything he sees and experiences is for the first time. He travels into the city and ends up getting put up by this foster family.

  

  Matt Dallas
  • Time
  • World
  • Family

• You get a show where people are jumping up and dancing, but it's not a critical event in the sense of profound catharsis. Essentially it's celebratory.

  

  Archie Shepp
  • People
  • Up
  • Profound

• A lot of web companies will take a short-term approach and sell to an incumbent and don't end up living up to their full potential.

  

  Jonah Peretti
  • Up

• You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • God
  • Long

• She was my closest friend. She was the one person, other than my husband, I could turn to in a crisis. There was a lot of resentment when I first came to town. But Patsy was strong-willed and always taking up for me. If it hadn't been for her, I don't think I would have lasted.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • She
  • Strong
  • Friend

• I never read any of the comics, but I grew up on the animated series when I was a little kid - I guess it came out in 1992. So I've always been an 'X-Men' fan.

  

  Lucas Till
  • Up
  • Men

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