Up Quotes

• I consider myself a feminist because I believe women should have equal rights. Of course. It's just that the term 'feminism' conjures up other things for people.

  

  Marina and the Diamonds
  • People
  • Believe
  • Women

• Thousands of kids and parents come up to us and say, How do we get better as a singer?

  

  Paula Abdul
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Parents

• Why is the rest of the world so overcrowded? Nobody lives in America! We're all squashed up on top of each other in London.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • World
  • Why
  • America

• I went to a very small Catholic school. It wasn't an easy place to be growing up gay.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell
  • School
  • Small
  • Growing

• Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth, no matter how much blood ends up on their hands. They are master deceivers and talented manipulators who cannot be trusted to change.

  

  George Ayittey
  • Up
  • Power

• Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• I'm really pleased to share the 'Station to Station' film. It has a very unorthodox structure; it's made up of separate one-minute films. So you watch this piece that is like time moving. Everything is democratised, whether it's a minute of Patti Smith or a single landscape with a drone, it's this amazing modern kaleidoscope.

  

  Doug Aitken
  • Time
  • Single
  • Amazing

• I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean myself off being dependent. It was a very important time for me to be able to create my own individual, independent life; just as a way of growing up.

  

  Alice Englert
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• I love what Paul Thomas Anderson did with 'The Master' with putting out those teasers made up of footage that's not in the movie.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
  • Up
  • Movie

• I'm really interested in mythology and folklore. I'm interested in moralities, why we're here, faith... all of these bigger questions that I think we can place in films that allow us to question and give us a safe place to feel. Those types of questions can pop up in all sorts of different types of films - drama, comedy, action movie.

  

  Brie Larson
  • Different
  • Why
  • Movie

• I decided to start embracing and wearing my natural hair, but there was only one problem; I didn't know what to do with it or how to style it. Growing up, all I knew was my relaxed, processed hair, so I had to go through this learning phase.

  

  Kimberly Elise
  • Growing
  • Learning
  • Style

• I feel like I've met most people I look up to musically. I just want to meet Chef.

  

  Zach Condon
  • People
  • Up

• I think there's a void for some authentic soul music with an edge. I think there's some people who grew up with Motown and Stevie Wonder that still can appreciate Future, Drake, and all these different things, too, but there shouldn't be a void for those people, as well.

  

  Anderson Paak
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• Radio astronomers are aware in the back of their minds that if there are other civilizations out there in space, it might be the radio astronomers who first pick up the signal.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • Up
  • Space

• Michael Bradley has the stuff of leadership; he works hard and can break up the opponent's play. However, that's not enough to justify his philanthropic attitude towards possession, the generous portion of balls that he contributes to his foes. His sloppiness constantly culminates in unnecessary goals.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Attitude
  • Leadership
  • Goals

• If you set your story in Rome, Ireland or Sheboygan, for that matter, go there. If you're broke, set it in the town where you live, or where you grew up.

  

  Lynn Flewelling
  • Up
  • Live

• Can you believe this shit? Hell has frozen over. Now, a lot of people come up here and thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus. He didn't help me a bit. If it was up to him, Cesar Millan would be up here with that damn dog. So all I can say is- suck it, Jesus! This award is my god now!

  

  Kathy Griffin
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• My whole life has largely been one of surprises. I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant, unexpected encouragements of this kind if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day of his life - that is, tries to make each day reach as nearly as possible the high-water mark of pure, unselfish, useful living.

  

  Booker T. Washington
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Mind

• I came to the conclusion that I'm not going to give up cycling because some people are cheating.

  

  Bradley Wiggins
  • People
  • Up
  • Cheating

• I didn't want to stay until I had used up all the enjoyment because that's too long to stay anywhere.

  

  Darrell Royal
  • Up
  • Long

• If Mr. [Donald] Trump is up 10 or 15 points on Election Day and ends up losing, then, you know, maybe he can raise some questions. That doesn't seem to be the case at that moment.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Moments
  • Trump
  • Losing

• My parents were funny. My brothers were funny. We just laughed and had a good time. Growing up, it breeds that. It breeds your funny. It breeds your creativity.

  

  Kym Whitley
  • Time
  • Good
  • Parents

• When you do a play, you have the kind of nightly feeling of accomplishment. But you also have the daily dread of the doing it every night. And because you're doing the whole thing every day, it's like climbing up the mountain every single night. With a movie it's like climbing the mountain very slowly, over months of filming.

  

  Jesse Eisenberg
  • Movie
  • Night
  • Feeling

• It is very difficult also to sacrifice one's suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

  

  G. I. Gurdjieff
  • Men
  • Suffering
  • Sacrifice

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