Up Quotes

• When a church manipulates the law to say, "These people are lesser," it takes a lot of resilience to hold your head up and say, "I am not lesser!" Some people can do it and some cannot; and some of those people who cannot will be destroyed.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Law
  • Church

• The practice of pumping up before the scene, especially if you've got your shirt off, most actors will do that.

  

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
  • Up
  • Practice

• When I get up in the morning and put on a pink or a green wig, I see myself as a piece of animation. It lets me be the person I want to be, a person who's not embarrassed to have fun.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Fun
  • Morning
  • Green

• The Gun Control Act of 1968 was an attempt to impose order. It set up the Federal Firearms License (FFL) system; gun stores would have to become licensed, and they would have to follow certain rules. Felons, illegal immigrants, and crazy people would be prohibited from buying guns.

  

  Jeanne Marie Laskas
  • People
  • Control
  • Crazy

• But when I really look back on my life, being really honest about it and now that I've got the chance to travel the world, seeing how a lot of little kids grow up - my life wasn't so bad.

  

  Artis Leon Ivey Jr.
  • Life
  • World
  • Kids

• Everybody is going to die, so people are enthralled by the possibility that they don't have to completely die, that there is something that comes afterward. It's like if you're going to France for the summer, you're going to read up on it. Everyone just wants to know where they're going, or if they're going anywhere.

  

  Mary Roach
  • People
  • Die
  • Summer

• Public enthusiasm for new advances is a key ingredient in influencing policy-makers to stimulate follow-up work with suitable funding, and it can be achieved far faster now that interested non-specialists can explore new research autonomously and can also be appealed to directly by scientists.

  

  Aubrey de Grey
  • Up
  • Work
  • Explore

• Every time somebody would ask me what I want to be when I grow up, I would always say, 'I want to be on Broadway!'

  

  Lilla Crawford
  • Up
  • Time

• We live in a modest system, a galaxy called the Milky Way. If we named every star in the Milky Way and put them in the Hollywood telephone directory and stacked those telephone directories up, we'd have a pile of telephone directories 70 miles high.

  

  John Rhys-Davies
  • Live
  • High
  • Star

• I had been trying to make movies, but they were really hard to get made. TV wound up, by surprise, a much more fulfilling place to work. That said, I've always been drawn to make movies.

  

  Alan Taylor
  • Up
  • Work
  • Trying

• I have a lot of favorite films. I tend to love the silliness of 'Bringing Up Baby.' 'Charade' is fantastic. 'His Girl Friday,' the banter in that, that alone made me want to be a writer.

  

  Jennifer Grant
  • Girl
  • Alone
  • Baby

• I don't do chat-up lines. Girls often tell me I'm cheeky. Being cheeky seems to work OK for me.

  

  Jermain Defoe
  • Up
  • Work

• The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.

  

  E. B. White
  • People
  • Nature
  • Science

• I absolutely loved being famous. It was all great, up until the point when it wasn't.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Great
  • Famous
  • Loved

• When you have an injury in your forearm, it affects the command of your pitches. I would yank pitches down away, or they were staying up. I'd go to accelerate, but everything would come forward except the ball. The ball was staying behind. When you have an inconsistent release point like that, it's impossible to throw a changeup.

  

  Phil Humber
  • Up

• The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

  

  Dorothy Leigh Sayers
  • Air
  • English
  • Simplicity

• When you have a lot going on in a scene - whether it be a lot of shots, a lot of coverage, a lot of edits, or just the amount of content - it can cover up a deficit of true feeling. But when you don't have a lot of material to work with, you really have to be sincere with everything. You really have to mean it, because there's nowhere to hide.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
  • Work
  • True
  • Feeling

• Make Up For Ever has foundation options that work for me - and everyone.

  

  Khoudia Diop
  • Up
  • Work

• Have you ever met a successful person who wasn't restless- who was satisfied with where he or she was in life? They want new challenges. They want to get up and go...and that's one of the reasons they're successful.

  

  Alex Trebek
  • Life
  • She
  • Person

• What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.

  

  Charles de Montesquieu
  • Up

• If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.

  

  Pope Francis
  • God
  • Help
  • Past

• Rich Folkers is throwing 'em up in the bullpen.

  

  Jerry Coleman
  • Funny
  • Humor
  • Rich

• I almost literally wake up in the morning starting to think of my next idea. It's almost always driven by what's in the news. The hard part, really, is getting from knowing what I want to say to figuring out how to say it in an image. I'm still not entirely sure how to explain how that happens... Suddenly, something just works.

  

  David Horsey
  • Up
  • Morning

• This thing is such a ripple, the way lives are affected by gentrification. On one hand, yes, you're cleaning up this area, you're making it more livable for people. But you're not saying anything about the people that live there.

  

  Brian Azzarello
  • People
  • Live
  • Hand

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