Up Quotes
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The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often.
Marianne Faithfull
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I didn't know music would end up being my job, but I loved it so much I wanted to do it every day.
Mat Kearney
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It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine.
Caitlin Moran
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There's a reasonable amount of traction in college education, particularly engineering, because quite a lot of that is privatized, so there is an incentive to set up new colleges of reasonably high quality.
Azim Premji
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From a building right in front of my windows, I can observe the speed of the sunrises and sunsets. The voices of children playing, laughing, yelling, and crying on the playground crawl up to the eighth floor, where I write. Their voices sound so innocent from a distance.
Andrea Hirata
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If I had a normal job and had been moving up, I'd be management level now.
Lauren Graham
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I had always wanted to tell a story that was set in Los Angeles in the '50s, because that's where I grew up, and it was the city of my childhood memories.
Curtis Hanson
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I actually grew up in the City of Pasadena.
Aja Brown
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If you lined up everyone I've ever dated, you wouldn't see any similarities.
Lisa Marie Presley
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When you're entertaining all day long and that's your work, you end up really very tired. You don't have a lot of energy left over for your loved ones.
Sia
LSD
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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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I wasn't the biggest hip-hop fan, because I had to listen to whatever my parents listened to, so growing up, it was a lot of Dolly Parton, Elvis, and Whitney Houston. When they finally put a TV in my room and I got to listen to MTV Jams I was like: 'Here I am!'
Karen Civil
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In the locker room, and when I'm with my friends, we use racial slurs... What I do with my black friends is not up to white America to dictate to me what's appropriate and inappropriate.
Charles Barkley
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I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.
John Wooden
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I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all, Teddy said. It was on a Sunday, I remember. My sister was a tiny child then, and she was drinking her milk, and all of a sudden I saw that she was God and the milk was God. I mean, all she was doing was pouring God into God, if you know what I mean.
J. D. Salinger
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For the devices we use... the funding models are completely screwed up. Angel funding isn't sufficient for hardware.
Mary Lou Jepsen
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For me, my mythology growing up was 'Raiders Of The Lost Ark' and 'Star Wars' and 'E.T.' and 'Ghostbusters.' That's what I grew up on, and there aren't many people who can write that kind of scale of story, stories that are that big.
Colm McCarthy
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A comic should suffer as much over a single line as a man with a hernia would in picking up a heavy barbell.
W. C. Fields