Up Quotes

• I like a well-roasted rotisserie chicken and eggs cooked various ways, like sunny-side up or scrambled. It's comfort food for me.

  

  Joel Robuchon
  • Up
  • Food

• As it's related to publishing, I think magazines really benefit from having a staff with a range of different perspectives and cultural references so that any reader can feel like there is someone on the masthead they can relate to, someone they can trust to speak up for them. It's great to see that idea being embraced more and more.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • Great
  • Different
  • Trust

• I read everything, but particularly, growing up in a household where my mom was black and my dad was white, I remember really loving 'Ebony' and 'Essence.' Those magazines were the only place where I could see images of women who looked like me or my mom.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • Women
  • Remember
  • Black

• 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 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

• I don't know what I feel about wearing my furs anymore. I worked so hard to have a fur coat, and I don't want to wear it anymore because I'm so wrapped up in the animals. I have real deep thoughts about it because I care about the world and nature.

  

  Diana Ross
  • World
  • Real
  • Nature

• 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

• 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

• Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.

  

  O. Henry
  • Home
  • Funny
  • Dark

• 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

• I have been very fortunate since 'Ice Age' to make movies that somehow charm audiences. I think that the key to it for me has been coming up with the right ideas but, more importantly, choosing the right collaborators and artists to execute those ideas.

  

  Chris Meledandri
  • Up
  • Age

• Sometimes you need conflict in order to come up with a solution. Through weakness, oftentimes, you can't make the right sort of settlement, so I'm aggressive, but I also get things done, and in the end, everybody likes me.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Up
  • Done

• Because I'm a good girl, I tend to fall for the bad boy persona, and it ends up biting me in the butt. They end up not knowing how to treat me, and I end up completely devastated.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Girl

• My mum and dad used to make me stand up at dinner parties and sing to their friends.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Friends
  • Dad
  • Stand

• 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

• When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.

  

  K. Flay
  • Music
  • Growing
  • College

• Pain has been part of my life. I don't complain about much. When you grow up with six boys, you can't show your pain, and if you do, they'll give you another piece of pain.

  

  Jim Kelly
  • Life
  • Up
  • Pain

• I lived near Arthur's Seat when I lived in Edinburgh. It was the perfect playground as a child. I always have a wee run up there when I'm back.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Perfect
  • Always
  • Child

• Mumbling priests swinging stick cans on their chains and even witch doctors conjuring up curses with a well-buried elephant tooth have a better sense of their places in the world. They know this universe is brimming with magic, with life and riddles and ironies. They know that the world might eat them, and no encyclopedia could stop it.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • Life
  • World
  • Stop

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

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Work
  • Down

• There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.

  

  Hamlin Garland
  • Light
  • Poetry
  • Sun

• 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

• With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • People
  • Say
  • Crack

• I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

  

  Fritz Perls
  • People
  • World
  • Live

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