Up Quotes

• It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.

  

  Pete Townshend The Who
  • Up
  • Good
  • Rock

• I'm so used to America, used to the traffic in L.A., and I don't really feel it click with the Korean culture. But obviously, I have a Korean face, and I feel like that's just - you know, I can't walk around people like I'm, like, straight-up American. It's like, I'm Korean American. My parents are from Korea.

  

  Chloe Kim
  • People
  • American
  • America

• I think, growing up in a small town - I grew up in a lot of different places. I grew up in a city environment, a more suburban environment, a more rural environment. That's the beauty of New Jersey is you get a lot of different types of living.

  

  Halsey
  • Different
  • Small
  • Growing

• Using creative expression as a means to a professional end makes me curl up a bit.

  

  Jenny Slate
  • Up
  • Professional

• You must still stand up and say no when society is facing a backslide or a moment of danger.

  

  Wang Shi
  • Society
  • Moment
  • Stand

• The middle ground in Congress has all but disappeared. The founders intended competing principles and interests to check excesses and create a balance in our politics that would benefit 'we the people.' Gerrymandered districts and a hyped-up fight-night media offer a partial explanation of why we seem to have neither checks nor balances.

  

  Donna Brazile
  • People
  • Why
  • Night

• You have to stand up for some things in this world.

  

  Marjory Stoneman Douglas
  • Up
  • World

• How it pours, pours, pours, In a never-ending sheet!How it drives beneath the doors! How it soaks the passer's feet!How it rattles on the shutter! How it rumples up the lawn!How 'twill sigh, and moan, and mutter, From darkness until dawn.

  

  Rain
  • Up

• I used to be a huge fan of Heavy Metal magazine growing up, and I was exposed to Cobalt there and fell in love with the character and the world. I've tried to track it down and pursue it myself to make a movie out of it. Also I felt like the thing that's cool about Cobalt is it does have a culty kind of underground quality to it that I really like.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • World
  • Character
  • Movie

• At school, I was a shy lad and still am. But acting gives me licence to be up there, demanding the focus. It's the one time in my life where I don't have to shout to be heard.

  

  Emun Elliott
  • Life
  • Time
  • School

• He who never looks up to a living God, to a heavenly presence, loses the power of perceiving that presence, and the universe slowly turns into a dead machine, clashing and grinding on, without purpose or end. If the light within us be darkness, how great is that darkness!

  

  James Freeman Clarke
  • Great
  • God
  • Power

• What did you expect? I don't know why we're so surprised. When you put your foot on a man's neck and hold him down for three hundred years, and then you let him up, what's he going to do? He's going to knock your block off.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Up
  • Why

• I had a fun high school experience. We had a big old prom, we had 400 kids in the graduating class and everything. It was a fun night. I enjoyed the limo ride there the most. Me and a couple friends riding with their dates, everyone was all dressed up, and I was into it, the energy and the anticipation of that entire experience.

  

  Jonathan Keltz
  • School
  • Experience
  • Kids

• Why don't they just accept that life is sad and cheer up it's not forever.

  

  Jeremy Hardy
  • Life
  • Why
  • Forever

• You know how screwed up censorship is, two girls just agreed to make out naked in front of their fathers, and we went wait, don't curse.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Censorship
  • Curse
  • Fathers

• My friends will be like, 'That bloke was chatting you up', and I'll go, 'What?' I'm so oblivious - I don't notice things like that.

  

  Eliza Doolittle
  • Up
  • Friends

• You went up a girl and came down a woman.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Girl
  • Woman
  • Went

• I grew up in Mexico, not the U.S., and the fact is that there just aren't any parts for Latin actresses. I have to persuade people that my accent won't be a problem, but an asset.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • People
  • Problem
  • Latin

• My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Time
  • World
  • She

• I grew up with nothing, so whenever I got to where I could have something I felt like I needed to have everything I couldn't have when I was young.

  

  Alan Jackson
  • Up

• I feel like, growing up, yes, I loved looking at fashion. I loved Tumblr.

  

  Barbie Ferreira
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Fashion

• Know that even when you want to give up or throw in the towel, in the end it will all be worth the hard work.

  

  Ashton Eaton
  • Up
  • Work

• I love 'Donnie Brasco' and 'Days of Thunder,' so after I did 'The Skulls,' I was like, 'I want to be either an undercover cop, or I want to race cars!' Universal came to me with a newspaper article about street racing in L.A., and I was like, 'Are you kidding me? I grew up doing that right off Peoria in Sun Valley.' They asked if I wanted to do it.

  

  Paul Walker
  • Up
  • Sun

• If we end up with war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran at the same time, can anyone see a more damaging prospect for America's world role than that?

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Time
  • World
  • America

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