Up Quotes

• Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • American
  • Listening
  • Grow Up

• I grew up in the church. I was raised in the church.

  

  Quinton Aaron
  • Up
  • Church
  • I Was Raised

• For six years, the only consistent thing about our national drug policy has been its inconsistency. Harsher penalties, urine testing, hysteria, budget cuts and the simplistic 'Just Say No!' campaign (the equivalent of telling manic depressives to 'just cheer up') have returned drug education and treatment to the Reefer Madness era.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Education
  • Drug
  • Cheer

• I was causing trouble in high school, and in order to get me to stop and to pass, they put me into theater, and I ended up winning a Shakespeare competition. All I had to do was imitate people properly, and I ended up going to the finals when I was about 16.

  

  Keala Settle
  • People
  • School
  • High

• The Americans should stop insulting us, I'm not going to be an accomplice to the depopulation of the land. It's not up to the Americans to tell us how to organise our farm policy and the balance of our society. Their attitude is to treat the EC as if it had the plague and then encourage the rest of the world to join in.

  

  Jacques Delors
  • World
  • Society
  • Stop

• We have to remind ourselves of this at every moment: that we are in a war, a cold war as they call it; a war where there is no front line, no continuous bombardment, but where the two adversaries - this tiny champion of the Caribbean and the immense imperialist hyena - are face to face and aware that one of them is going to end up dead in the fight.

  

  Che Guevara
  • War
  • Cold
  • Champion

• I'm nice, and I show up on time.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • Time
  • Nice
  • Show

• One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

  

  Plato
  • Up

• Growing up in Canada, most kids from Canada dream of playing in the NHL, and they also hope one day to be on a Stanley Cup team. That was a big goal.

  

  Bobby Orr
  • Kids
  • Hope
  • Dream

• I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.

  

  Jennifer Lawrence
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• I really love research. It's one of the things I love most about my job. I feel like it's me in the lab cooking up the character.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • Character
  • Job
  • Cooking

• My father was a sheep shearer, so I grew up in a caravan; we'd go around from shearing shed to shearing shed. My mother always wanted us to be educated, so I went to a school.

  

  Jason Clarke
  • School
  • Mother
  • Father

• Bravery shows up in everyday life when people have the courage to live their truth, their vision and their dreams.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• The worst gig story I have is from a club in Alabama that I think is still up and running, so I won't name the name of the club. We got hired in there to play, and the owner was pretty annoying. He kept coming up to me during the show and asking me to play 'Purple Rain.'

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Pretty
  • Running
  • Story

• Over the years, I have been a house painter, farm worker, paste-up artist, Easter Bunny, pizza delivery person, homeless shelter staff member, and counselor for adults and kids with mental illness - I quit my last real job in 2000 to work on writing full-time.

  

  Jennifer McMahon
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• He found a new way to cover up his bad breath. He holds up his arms.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Bad
  • Found
  • Breath

• I use the media the way the media uses me-to attract attention. Once I have that attention, it's up to me to use it to my advantage.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Up
  • Attention

• He was not a man who prattled readily, especially in a foreign tongue. He gave the impression that each word was excavated from his interior by some up-to-date process of mining.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Up

• If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person.

  

  Ralph Bunche
  • Want
  • You
  • Idea

• Don't ever give up on life. Life can be so beautiful, especially after you've spent a lot of time with it.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Time
  • Beautiful

• I do admit that I've never been one to fit in easily to any given pattern. It's not my choice. It's just the way I am. So if the characters I wind up playing are all a bit different, it must be because that's the way I like it. Anna Kendrick is different, and she's going to stay that way.

  

  Anna Kendrick
  • Different
  • She
  • Wind

• It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A mind that's afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original.

  

  David Brin
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Creativity

• Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself.

  

  Frank Langella
  • Up

• I'm a sucker for a screwed-up protagonist. We all have issues.

  

  Chelsea Cain
  • Up

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