Up Quotes
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I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain.
Kevin Wilson
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I grew up doing martial arts, and it's one of these things where I always kind of liked acting, but I was never real serious about it.
Jody Hill
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It just didn't occur to me, sitting at my computer, that I would end up travelling all over the world.
Jimmy Wales
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Fortunately, I grew up in a traditional family where questioning was encouraged, particularly by my pandit grandfather. We are all voracious readers, seeking knowledge. I learn a lot from discussions with my wife, siblings and parents.
Amish Tripathi
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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
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It's hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
Weird Al Yankovic
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One kid's old, used-up equipment is another kid's brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.
Bode Miller
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Being on the stage is the one place I don't get nervous. Before the show is another story, but once I'm up there, and the first chord hits, I go to this other place. It's like a dream land.
Maren Morris
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I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.
Brian McKnight
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There's a lot of people talking about elitism and all of that.Yes, I went to Princeton and Harvard, but the lens through which I see the world is the lens that I grew up with. I am the product of a working class upbringing.
Barack Obama
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All I know is politics. Really, politics takes up most of my time; it's nonstop.
Jean-Claude Duvalier
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My hardcover sales are 17% down in books but up 400% in electronics.
Lisa See
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I was a ballerina for 10 years growing up, but I stopped.
Amy Smart
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What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?
Jacques Lacan
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My working life has always been wrapped up in doing my job to the best of my abilities and doing the best for my family. It is not a contest between the two.
Johann Lamont
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When lorry drivers come up behind me and I'm cycling, innocently keeping to my side of the road, and they decide because they are so big, and their lorry is so powerful, and they just want to clear me out of the road, and they hoot aggressively, then I do see red a bit. I do.
Boris Johnson
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It started when I woke up, all I wanted to do is jump out of the window. I didn't want to eat anymore, because I was afraid that I might poison myself somehow.
Jonathan Davis
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When I'm in certain moods, a conversation will start up in my head, and suddenly I'll realize that the language has reached a very high and interesting level, and then lines and stanzas will just kind of appear, full-blown.
Franz Wright
