Up Quotes
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The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.
Edmund Barton
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To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.
Edith Hamilton
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In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP.
Edward Felten
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My dad put up a great hoop in our front yard in our driveway. I was in Oregon, so I had to be out there in the rain. We didn't always have a gym to go to.
Kevin Love
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Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.
Walter Pater
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The world may end up under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss.
Andrei A. Gromyko
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Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.
Paula Poundstone
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At one point, I didn't get out of bed for, I think, three months, and I went down to the bottom of the hill one day and I had to call somebody to get me to come back up - come pick me up because I couldn't physically walk up the hill.
Tanya Tucker
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Thinking more of others’ happiness than of her own was very fine; but did it not mean giving up her very individuality, quenching all the warm love, the true desires, that made her herself? Yet in this deadness lay her only comfort; so it seemed.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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I've always just felt a little out of place. I still feel out of place in San Francisco. It's this place where everything is going great, and everyone feels super optimistic about the world. It's a little different about how I grew up.
J. D. Vance
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And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.
Black Elk
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I have one idea of how to get more Democratic women to polling stations: Stand up for them.
Laura Moser
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With acting, I felt like I had a lot to prove because I didn't study it; I didn't work my way up in a traditional sense.
Tavi Gevinson
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I guess I just always had this idea that I would go to Hollywood. I had the typical 'get up and go' attitude that you have to have in order to make the brave step into the big city.
Felicia Day
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You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
Wendell Phillips
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It took me a couple years to get over the stereotype I was letting myself get caught up on, being a football player trying to start a career in music.
Sam Hunt
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My dad is Mexican, and he grew up as a normal chauvinistic Mexican, and he expected my mom to do everything for him.
Xochi Birch
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August for the people and their favourite islands. Daily the steamers sidle up to meet The effusive welcome of the pier.
W. H. Auden
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A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.
Irving Babbitt
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I need to have an outlet, and so I go and make up characters and act and sing and dance like a crazy monkey clown.
Lauren Ambrose
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Very few athletes get to experience a home Games, and I don't want to pass up the chance.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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I grew up poor. I never had any money. I was a hobo, you know, ride the freights.
Art Linkletter
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I'm not prepared to give up the truth for popularity.
Naftali Bennett
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I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.
Abel Ferrara