Up Quotes
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It takes a lot of guts to get up on top of a bar and dance.
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The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.
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The older I get, the more I realize that you don't have to be around people you don't want to be around, and you don't have to be in a situation you don't want to be in. You have the power to rise up and leave.
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I like science fiction. I am quite a technologically kind of up-to-date person. I like seeing what the new developments are.
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If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.
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My family was once invited to lunch at a chateau owned by a friend of a friend. As we drove our rental car up to the giant castle, my kids gasped and said, 'They must be rich!'
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The idea of bringing young people up to Literature is doubtless calculated to raise the eyebrows almost as much as the suggestion of bringing them up to the Stage.
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About Donald Trump When he was over here, he was saying that he was going up to Scotland, my golf course in Scotland, cause people in London are protesting but up in Scotland they really like me. Can I say on behalf of the Scottish nation? We fucking don’t.
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My self-publishing adventure led to my work being picked up by a traditional publisher and eventually hitting the bestseller lists. That led to two more bestselling novels.
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One of the symptoms of an absence of innovation is the fact that you lose your jobs. Everyone else catches up with you. They can do what you do better than you or cheaper than you. And in a multinational corporate-free market enterprise, it is the company's obligation to take the factory to a place where they can make it more cheaply.
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A month passes by and brings another month. Easy to guess what lies ahead: all of yesterday's boredom. And tomorrow ends up no longer like tomorrow.
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When I was in college, I lived in a mostly black, poor neighborhood. That's where I grew up, but I attended a mostly white upper-class school in conservative Mississippi. I was often very aware of how I presented myself.
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Growing up, 'Cosmo' was my lifeline to the world. A world that I wanted to be in but couldn't get to yet.
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But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.
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Small moments can coexist with big moments and even back right up against each other.
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I was so poor growing up...if I wasn't a boy...I'd have nothing to play with.
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I grew up in this weird, educationally elite but economically impoverished environment. Total 'Oprah' story.
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That noise in my earphones knocked my nose off and I had to pick it up and find it.
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Life is about making plans from which you deviate, almost always. If you are lucky, you do come up with a plan.
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Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.
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I never had the desire to be a professional Twitterer. Every now and then something dumb pops into my head and I'll tweet it. I don't feel any obligation to respond to everyone. Not that I don't appreciate people sending me messages on there, but there are too many. Responding to everyone would take away time for all the stuff I'm actually in the business for [stand-up or scripts].
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I am one who believes in the power of the people. I am inspired when I see people hit the streets, who challenge their elected officials, and are willing to stand up and fight. I encourage it.
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If the disagreement was strong enough, we could end up pretty close to the borderline of incivility.
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All three of us - two sisters and a brother - were brought up with an emphasis on academics.
