Up Quotes

• I grew up in Haughton, Louisiana. I go to my white grandparents' house, and then I cross the railroad tracks and hang out with my black grandma. We have English teachers on my white side. My grandpa is a principal. And then you go to the other side, and people have been in jail.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • People
  • House
  • Black

• I will not lose, for even in defeat/There's a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me

  

  Jay-Z
  • Lessons
  • Defeat
  • Valuable

• I feel really lucky to have had 'War and Peace' as my first big telly job. I was playing this incredible character, and we were shooting in Catherine the Great's palace near St. Petersburg in the winter, when the river was frozen. It was a dream. I still can't believe it. I wanted to soak up every last minute.

  

  Jessie Buckley
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Character

• 'We know a little place in the American Far West, where Charlie Briggs chops up the finest prairie-fed beef and tastes...' (pauses, and continues with a note of disgust in his voice) This is a lot of shit, you know that! You want one more? One more on the beef?

  

  Orson Welles
  • Up
  • American

• He Giovanni Ardini, Italian master-carver opened up a new vista for me of the quality of form, light, and colour contained in the Mediterranean conception of carving.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Light
  • Quality
  • Italian

• If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

  

  Joyce Meyer
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• Growing up in the middle of nowhere, there was a lot of twangy music around, but it didn't really connect with me then.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Music
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.

  

  Sarah Breedlove
  • Up
  • Opportunity

• Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Life
  • Ocean
  • Down

• The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Man
  • Wise
  • Wise Man

• Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Trying
  • Heart
  • Words

• Cheer for your teammates, regardless of whether they're fast or slow, veteran or neophyte, varsity or JV. Or rally the spirits of someone who's had a bad performance. Also, encourage stragglers during tough workouts; jog back to 'pick up' a runner who's behind during a long run.

  

  Don Kardong
  • Long
  • Bad
  • Cheer

• You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way.

  

  Bruno Mars
  • Up
  • Haters

• It's okay to wake up and look however you look. You are beautiful regardless.

  

  Ella Mai
  • Up
  • Beautiful

• They who humble themselves before knowledge of any kind generally end up the wiser and as voices with something meaningful to say.

  

  Haki R. Madhubuti
  • Knowledge
  • Voice
  • Humble

• I did notice growing up that there are so many things, obstacles and things, that people think you can't do because you're Muslim or because you're wearing a hijab. You hear a lot of no's. That was something that I wanted to see change.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Growing
  • Change

• I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

  

  Dean Martin
  • People
  • Good
  • Morning

• I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • House
  • Dad
  • Mom

• People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Work
  • Down

• When I'm not acting, I'm writing, building an inventory of scripts. Even if they sit on the shelf, I just keep stacking them up.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Writing
  • Acting
  • Building

• What fashion has started from hackers? They have bad posture, and they don't go out. I wish I had a hacker boyfriend - they stay at home up in the bedroom.

  

  John Waters
  • Home
  • Bad
  • Wish

• I was in high school. A couple of my friends and I decided we had to be in a class together where we could fool around, and drama was it because we'd do improvs, beating each other up. They left a year later, and I stayed in and got a knack for it, and enjoyed the whole process.

  

  Adam Beach
  • School
  • Friends
  • Together

• Long as you been living, you ain't NEVER heard of a mother-fucker overdosin' on marijuana. You might-a thought that nigga was dead. He ain't dead. He gonna wake up in 30 minutes hungry enough to eat up everything in your house. That's the side effects: hungry, happy, sleepy.' That's it.

  

  Katt Williams
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Mother

• And since the day I left Milwaukee,Lyncheburg and Bourbon, FranceBeen makin' a fool out of folksJust like you,And helpin' white people dance.I am medicine and I am poison.I can help you up or make you fall.You had some of the best timesYou'll never remember with me...Alcohol.

  

  Brad Paisley
  • People
  • Remember
  • Help

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