Up Quotes

• American people aren't interested in the procedural analysis. What they want is an up and down vote. They deserve an up and down vote on health care.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • People
  • American
  • Health

• I'm the Lord of the Dance! Fuck Michael Flatley, it's me! ...Who has the balls to call themselves the lord of anything, huh? C'mon, last time somebody called themself lord on this planet, they got CRUCIFIED, Michael! And we know where the hammer and the nails are! We could put you up in a couple of minutes!

  

  Denis Leary
  • Time
  • Couple
  • Dance

• Back in '96, I was on 'The Price Is Right' pointing at refrigerators, and 'Extra,' the TV show, came down. They were the first entertainment entity that put people up on the Internet, so they put my picture up, and America Online called the next day and said I got a zillion or whatever downloads. I didn't know what a download was!

  

  Cindy Margolis
  • People
  • America
  • Picture

• There was a movie I was trying to make right after 'Monster,' a bigger behemoth: the Chuck Yeager story. It was a life dream, but it just didn't line up. We just had issues with the life rights, ultimately.

  

  Patty Jenkins
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Movie

• I did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it.

  

  Linda M. Godwin
  • Up
  • Science
  • Math

• I was born and grew up in China during the 1960s.

  

  Li Lu
  • Up

• Mr. Hitler had to leave the stadium early, but after winning I hurried up to the radio booth. When I passed near the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me and I waved back at him.'

  

  Jesse Owens
  • Up
  • Hand
  • Winning

• Actors, I don't think, ever really grow up. I'm hoping that that rejuvenating process applies to me, too. It has so far. I've been very lucky.

  

  Derek Jacobi
  • Up

• It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I want.

  

  Margaret Haddix
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Freedom

• I write-down to speak-up.

  

  M. K. Asante
  • Writing
  • Literature
  • Speak

• A lot of people resent that I've been in someone's life for 50 years. Why shouldn't people have an affection for me and what I've done? Didn't I have to be genuine for them to buy into what I did? There are children who grow up today who will not have that when they're 55 years old. With whom will they have it? Name an example for me.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• 'Napoleon Dynamite' blew up my career.

  

  Efren Ramirez
  • Up
  • Career
  • Napoleon

• If you show me how to get up off the ground

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Up

• I think the more that I can find myself getting out of the way - like you said yourself - trying to get out of thinking too much, and sometimes something truly special can happen. That's the beautiful mystery of song writing - that you really don't know where these songs come from exactly, and you don't know how you came up with them - and god bless it that you should have the gift of channeling that.

  

  Kimbra Lee Johnson
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• My secret skill, if it even counts as one, is saying really crass things that sometimes end up as dialogue coming from other character's mouths. My inner salty sailor is alive and well - the only problem is most of the writers on our show are just as inappropriate, so at the end of the day, it's hard to tell who came up with the line.

  

  Lela Loren
  • Up
  • Character

• I joke that the Olympics is the warm-up to the Paralympics.

  

  Lee Pearson
  • Up

• Red lipstick has been my beauty staple for years. I show up to Pilates or yoga at 8 A.M. wearing my red lipstick.

  

  Liz Goldwyn
  • Red
  • Yoga
  • Lipstick

• For my father, he didn't know what 'Grey's Anatomy' was. He didn't know who John Mayer was. But when I showed up on the 'Law & Order' TNT promo spot, he thought, 'Wow, my son has made it.'

  

  Mat Kearney
  • Father
  • Law
  • Son

• She remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should never never shut yourself up in a wardrobe.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • She

• I made a sort-of living in the beginning of my acting career as a reporter. I think my very first job was 'Early Edition' as reporter no. 1, and for 'Light It Up,' I was reporter no. 2.

  

  Amy Landecker
  • Job
  • Career
  • Light

• When I first came to Columbia University, I was dirt poor. I did not choose to come here - I just ended up here because I had nowhere else to go, having just escaped from China after Tiananmen. I was in a new country where I didn't understand the language, didn't know anybody, and didn't have a penny to my name. So I was desperate and afraid.

  

  Li Lu
  • Up
  • Country

• I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself.

  

  John le Carre
  • Up
  • World
  • Mood

• I have never been afraid to stand up to the leadership on issues where we disagree. If you chose to keep Cambridge Labour, then I can continue to press the Government for the things that matter to you, in a way that members of the opposition are unable to.

  

  Anne Campbell
  • Up
  • Leadership

• I'm always excited to see my good buddy Richelle Mead. She cracks me up. I never get to see Veronica Roth enough, either.

  

  Margaret Stohl
  • Up
  • Good
  • She

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