Up Quotes
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Growing up, I always thought of Detroit as a basketball town because of the Pistons, but everyone says it's really, at its core, a football town.
Ndamukong Suh -
I really saw my mom advocate on my behalf and really say, 'Hey, you're good enough.' It was from her that I learned that just because something hasn't been done before, it doesn't mean it can't be done now. You have to speak up, and you've got to assert yourself because it takes somebody to be the first one to make it happen.
Kimberly Guilfoyle
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I've barfed in movies before. It seems like it always ends up being Campbell's soup mixed with something else.
Adam Scott -
When young girls are encouraged to explore what they find interesting, they grow up to be interesting women.
Amy Poehler -
Science is a cooperative enterprise, spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher, to student, to teacher. A community of minds reaching back to antiquity and forward to the stars. (From the first Cosmos: ASO episode, Standing Up in the Milky Way.)
Neil deGrasse Tyson -
If there was ever someone to look up to, it's Tom Hanks.
John Krasinski -
The current concept of prom just seems so empty. Teenagers get dressed up to go to a dance at a fancy location. It encourages social inclusion or exclusion based on your ability or inability to snag a date.
Adora Svitak -
The way I approach acting when there's a real life character, it's sort of like a Venn diagram. What I come up with is some amalgam of the two of us.
John Lithgow
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My grandmother and my father always said I would end up as a missionary. Well, I feel like I am one now.
Benjamin Watson -
So there is a natural efficiency that you pick up as you can prioritize capital across a bigger set of opportunities.
Bill Vaughan -
It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're not there, and the next day they are there. They're alive, and they're whispering in my head and all that stuff, and I want to write about those things.
George R. R. Martin -
People who pigeonhole us for our queerness are not people I'm interested in knowing. They're so boring. How dare you be so boring? Grow up. Get some Ray-Bans.
Ben Hopkins -
My mother's a police officer, so there was only so much trouble I could get myself into. But my father grew up on the other side.
Corey Hawkins -
I grew up in Florida, where if you weren't comfortable dancing, you weren't going to get any girls.
Channing Tatum
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Growing up in an atmosphere of storytelling made me an actor.
John Lithgow -
Schedules on TV are so tight, and it feels like they get tighter and tighter with every passing year. The idea of asking where your character's come from or where they grew up - you would just get a little bit laughed at.
Jessica Raine -
The party on Wall Street never ends - while the rest of us pick up their tab and suffer the hangover.
Lisa Madigan -
I'm from Georgia and grew up eating Chick-fil-A. I'm obsessed with all forms of fried chicken, like chicken briskets and chicken sandwiches.
Kelley O'Hara -
The more messy women that we put on screen, that we put in books, the more women can feel represented and seen, then they can access their own stuff, feel it's okay, and then have the strength to speak out about things like we're talking about. About rising up.
Krysten Ritter -
The president [Barack Obama] laid out his vision for foreign policy in a way that we hadn't heard before. And it could be summed up, I think, in two words - realistic idealism.
Barack Obama
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I never viewed money as being 'my money' I always saw it as 'the money.' It's a resource. If it pools up around me then it needs to be flushed back out into the system.
Louis C. K. -
If you're a journalist, and you want to see live photos happening at any location in our system, you can simply type in the location, and up comes the page.
Kevin Systrom -
I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.
Bonnie Raitt -
I'd never experienced stress before I did stand-up, and it was a massive shock to my system, this thing of waking up, and the nerves of, 'You're on stage tonight.'
Johnny Vegas