Up Quotes
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Young people are often asked, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' and given advice about how to lead meaningful adult lives, but where's the encouragement to lead meaningful lives right now?
Adora Svitak
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My mother never wore much make-up, and she was a kind of natural beauty; she knew just how to enhance what she had.
Francois Nars
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'Form them up Sergeant!' 'Aye aye, sir.' 'You're not a bloody sailor, Sergeant. A plain yes will do.' Aye aye, sir.'
Bernard Cornwell
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I felt like I couldn't wallow in self-pity forever. I can't beat myself up forever.
James Arthur
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I grew up in an African household, so lots of chicken, lots of rice. We ate Jollof rice, a very West African dish.
Edward Enninful
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I'm a rapper and, obviously, hip hop rap is my main thing. But I also like to dive into different genres and kind of be a bit more experimental and open myself up a bit, whether that's taking influence from jazz or soul or electronic.
Little Simz
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The first few days I felt trapped in a constant twilight of vertigo, like in the dream where you're suddenly falling... only I was constantly falling. In moments of fitful sleep I was aware of the dim possibility that I would wake up, truly wake up, and this would not have happened.
Joe Biden
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With any modern relationship between a man and a woman, everyone - including their own friends - assume that they're going to hook up.
Kim Shaw
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.
Doris Lessing
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If you're writing a song, you have to write something that can be understood serially. When you're reading a poem that's written for the page, your eye can skip up and down. You can see the thing whole. But you're not going to see the thing whole in the song. You're going to hear it in series, and you can't skip back.
James Fenton
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Voice work is the best - no need to dress up, no audience, no pressure, nobody's judging you.
Kym Whitley
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I definitely think for up and coming filmmakers, people graduating from film school, people that want to do their own movies, horror movies are a great way to go.
Jonathan Levine
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I think we're a band with a lot of history now so it's nice to come up with something that doesn't have any history at all.
Chris Martin
Coldplay
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I detest computers. If you had a device like that 30 years ago that froze up constantly, misbehaved constantly, lost your information and screwed up when you needed it the most, it would have been laughable.
Tom Scholz
Boston
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I'm afraid sometimes certain individual cases of defaults are unavoidable. What we should do is to step up monitoring, properly handle relevant matters, and ensure there is no regional and systemic financial risk.
Li Keqiang
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Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up.
Jose Saramago
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When I first heard it, I thought that's extremely challenging, the vocal - it was almost hysterical, and it was so up there, the register, but it was absolutely fascinating. And I know at the time a lot of my friends couldn't bear it, they thought it was just 'too much' - but that's exactly what drew me in.
John Joseph Lydon
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I was probably toward 8 1/2 when I actually joined the church and was baptized - and, my God, did I take it seriously! I was a zealot who irritated every one of my third-grade friends. They didn't beat me up, but I got labeled "the preacher girl."
Oprah Winfrey
