Up Quotes

• I don't check for Sean Hannity or Bill O'Reilly or any of these demons on the Right. They don't wake me up in the morning. I don't care about them, and they certainly don't drive the conversations I'm thinking about, but they do have an audience, and they do lie all day, every day about disenfranchised people.

  

  Jesse Williams
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Morning

• When I speak at events, I often wear my dad's ties and my mom's earrings. It's a small, almost secret way of having them with me when I'm up there onstage, talking to a roomful of strangers. It makes me feel safe.

  

  Marley Dias
  • Small
  • Dad
  • Mom

• It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

  

  Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
  • Up

• The moment I said I'd finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who'd got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I'd written Harry Potter. That would have been why.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Why
  • Book
  • War

• A real mother, who knows the will of God by experience, will prepare her children also to fulfil it. Such a mother will suffer if she sees her child overfed, effeminate, and dressed-up, for she knows that these things will make it difficult for it to fulfil the will of God which she recognizes.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • God
  • Real
  • Children

• I've always thought that a good book should be either the entry point inward, to learn about yourself, or a door outward, to open you up to new worlds.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Good
  • Book
  • Door

• I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.

  

  Iman
  • Time
  • Family
  • Day

• Every game, we're going to go for it, so when we get into playoff time, it's not like, 'You've really got to ratchet it up. You've really got to do something different.' Then what have I been doing the whole time?

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Time
  • Different
  • Game

• I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Life
  • House
  • Artist

• I wake up some mornings hating me too.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Up
  • Me
  • Wake Up

• The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• I grew up in a very religious household. My mom was a church organist. I was a religious kid.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Mom
  • Church
  • Religious

• 'SNL' doesn't have a traditional writer's room. On Monday, there's the pitch meeting with the guest, and I played that like it was stand-up.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Writer
  • Monday
  • Meeting

• Because the Asian market is so omnivorous, it affects all the shark populations up and down the Central and South American coast, and to a certain extent the East Coast of the United States as well.

  

  Peter Benchley
  • Up
  • American

• I think I'd just like to get in a time machine and travel and never come back. The '20s would be an incredible place to be, dressing up in tuxedos with fancy cars. That sounds incredible.

  

  Victor Webster
  • Time
  • Think
  • Travel

• Taking up marriage is a good excuse for taking up cursing, I think.

  

  Nancy E. Turner
  • Up
  • Good
  • Marriage

• I grew up in Bulgaria in a small city on the Black Sea Coast, so I was very interested in the sea, marine life, and everything related to it. But it was also a very dark place at night, so I could see the stars. And I just got very interested in it.

  

  Dimitar Sasselov
  • Life
  • Night
  • Black

• Hopefully, one day I won't have to be so caught up in all of that day-to-day, the Twitter and the Instagram. But I also would like to, at some point, turn off and take a break and also be, like, an artist.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Day
  • Artist
  • Turn

• Normally I begin writing a song with just with aim to express something, and sometimes I don't know what I want to express until a sentence comes to my head that will sum up everything about how I'm feeling at the time.

  

  Lianne La Havas
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Song

• Legolas is fantastic to dress up in - of course he is - and I've had the best time playing him.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Time
  • Best
  • Dress

• There's apparently soccer leagues that they've set up with young Indian girls.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • Young
  • Soccer
  • Indian

• When my sister and I were growing up, she was made out to be the goody-goody one.

  

  Princess Margaret
  • She
  • Growing
  • Sister

• I came to running late. It was something I had always wanted to do, but I always end up getting hurt. It didn't occur to me that I could actually slow down and walk a little bit!

  

  Veronica Webb
  • Running
  • Hurt
  • End

• It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Present
  • Spiritual

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