Up Quotes

• Writers tend to write stories as a kind of holiday between novels, or as preliminary steps towards a novel. Stories just don't often make up a writer's main body of work, and that's not because they don't see the market for it.

  

  James Lasdun
  • Up
  • Work
  • Holiday

• I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Player
  • Years
  • Old

• Food is meant to be used as fuel for our bodies. If you're using it for any other reasons, take a step back and ask yourself, 'What's up.'

  

  Jennifer Hudson
  • Up
  • Food

• I realize that lawyers are brought up (probably from small children) to think that 'technically true' is what matters, but when you make public PR statements, they should be more than 'technically' true. They should be honest. There's a big f*cking difference.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Children
  • True
  • Small

• We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Sound

• Stand up for what you know is right.

  

  Ronald Isley The Isley Brothers
  • Up

• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Business
  • American
  • Idea

• In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • God
  • Society
  • Community

• During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Christian
  • Jesus
  • Thought

• When you're growing up with a learning disability, it shoots your confidence and belief in what you can accomplish academically; it really damages it.

  

  Maya Hawke
  • Growing
  • Learning
  • Confidence

• I feel bad for kids growing up that, like, their favorite rapper is Lil Yachty.

  

  Pete Davidson
  • Kids
  • Bad
  • Growing

• I'm one of those people who laughs everything off. If I mess up, I just say, 'Ha! Totally didn't mean to do that.'

  

  Christina Grimmie
  • People
  • Up

• I was a dancer, growing up, and I definitely thought that was going to be my profession.

  

  Margaret Qualley
  • Up
  • Growing

• I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

  

  Frank Grillo
  • People
  • Money
  • College

• You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Small
  • Know
  • Texas

• A delicious smoothie is a really easy way of taking on lots of amazing skin boosting ingredients and was my first port of call every morning in the run-up to my wedding - I'll throw in frozen berries, banana, spinach, almond butter, almond milk, and oats for a quick breakfast quite often.

  

  Ella Woodward
  • Amazing
  • Morning
  • Breakfast

• The older I get, the more of a recluse I turn into. I love the social aspect of my work. It's like a commune and gets very intense and very sociable. Then when I am not working, I shut myself away, so I can see myself living up a mountain.

  

  Ben Daniels
  • Up
  • Work
  • Mountain

• I'm giving all that I have in this life. I'm opening up my notebook and I'm saying everything in there out loud.

  

  Kanye West
  • Life
  • Giving
  • Notebook

• As a kid growing up - I can see now - it didn't matter what I did, as long as it was something I could be really good at. Cycling just happened to be the opportunity that came along.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Good
  • Long
  • Opportunity

• You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Different
  • Learn
  • Yourself

• She was, fine as fuck I wanted to sex the ho up. She said 'let's hit the parking lot so I can sick your duck.'

  

  Outkast
  • She
  • Sex
  • Sick

• We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Home
  • Game
  • Baseball

• Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring!

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Woman
  • Boring
  • Size

• The things that drive me are poverty, and pain, and knowing that I don't want to end up being alone and I want to do something with my life and I want the name Dobson to remain in everyone's heads. Basically, just to rock and be the best performer I can be, and be true, and be real, and give people the real Fefe, nothing fake, all real.

  

  Fefe Dobson
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

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