Up Quotes
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I got into psychology simply because that's what my sister did, and I grew up in a family that was very, like, 'Follow your sister's footsteps.' I went to the same school she went to, did the same degree she did... really had no interest in it, to be honest.
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Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone literally said to me, 'You should try stand-up,' and took me to a venue.
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The best thing is to go public only when you're absolutely sure that's the right move for the company. And in order to make sure that is the case, you need to have as much control over the company as possible, which means not giving up control early on.
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In the past 20 years and more since China embarked on the road of reform and opening up, we have moved steadfastly to promote political restructuring and vigorously build democratic politics under socialism.
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People who do crime do it for reward. But you end up in jail - that's no reward. Through crime, your ambitions are low.
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A name with meaning could bring up a child, Taking the child out of the parents' hands. Better a meaningless name, I should say, As leaving more to nature and happy chance. Name children some names and see what you do.
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Cooking turkey every year doesn't have to be monotonous - I want people to always mix it up using different spices and preparations.
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I keep my stuff updated all the time. Being in the security industry, I keep up to date with securities.
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The moon was up, painting the world silver, making things look just a little more alive.
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I have not been keeping up with it as much as I should have maybe, because it’s certainly-This and Paris Hilton are the kind of issues that seem to get a lot more attention than maybe some of us think they deserve.
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All my writing takes place during the recording of the master tapes. I never do have songs when I start up an album. I actually write them while I record.
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These were al-Qaeda fighters, the first I'd ever seen up close, and they looked like badasses. As I passed on the outskirts of the grid, many of the prisoners stared directly at me. None of them cowered. I've been in a lot of prisons, but these guys showed a ferocity and a hatred unlike any I'd ever seen.
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A psychiatrist who professes to be a healer of souls, but who keeps people asleep, treats them for waking up, and drugs them asleep again (increasingly effectively as this field of technology sharpens its weapons), helps to drive them crazy.
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When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens.
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I can still remember the afternoon, on my 15th birthday, when I opened up 'The Virgin and the Gypsy,' D.H. Lawrence's novella, in my tiny cell in boarding school, and whole worlds of possibility opened out that I had never guessed existed. The language was on fire and sang of liberation.
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My background is advertising: I moved to New York from London in 1998 to start up the U.S. office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty.
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I gotta keep hustling. I know when it comes to the Internet, we move units. I grew up on the Internet.
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I'll get home from work on Friday night and take out some beans and soak them. The next morning, I'll put them in a pot for soup, then just keep chopping, chopping, chopping - carrots and celery and cabbage - and in two or three hours, you have this wonderful, mellow soup that fills up the whole house with its aroma.
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I wake up like I'm shot out of a cannon.
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The biggest thing about Pinterest is that people are there saving ideas for their personal lives. Not to rile up other people or make a big statement.
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I grew up in the Midwest. I understand a sense of the small-town mentality, small-town social politics.
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Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up.
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I just want to be real and who I am. That's something I'd feel comfortable with any little girl looking up to, so that's who I try to be.
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I guess I have kind of a type. Pretty much anybody who shows up in a black leather overcoat, I've doubled for them.
