Up Quotes

• When we go to court, they are going to have to come up with all the evidence where they are accusing me and my dedicated deputies of racial profiling. It's always easy to throw the race card in there and that's what they're doing in Washington today, that they're concerned about racial profiling.

  

  Joe Arpaio
  • Up
  • Today

• Chad brings the bulk of the ideas to the table, and we all polish and rework the ideas he comes up with. He's such an accomplished songwriter. He wrote a song for ('American Idol' runner-up) Bo Bice, Enrique Iglesias - he's got that ear to be a musical chameleon and get into the zone of an artist. And he can't help but write a song you can hum along to. And that voice, you know it when you hear it.

  

  Daniel Adair 3 Doors Down
  • American
  • Help
  • Song

• Careers are like roller coasters. You go up, you go down, and you spin yourself around.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Down

• It's tough, no matter how good your technology is, to police every single comment coming up.

  

  Alan Patricof
  • Good
  • Single
  • Technology

• Life wasn't easy growing up; it was frustrating. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily, everything would have come easily, and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Work
  • Growing

• I work every morning, all morning, sometimes in the afternoons. Then sometimes I hunt in the afternoons - quail, doves, grouse up north - but just to stay alive, because writers die from their lifestyle but also from their lack of movement.

  

  Jim Harrison
  • Work
  • Die
  • Morning

• I don't really know a lot of famous people. I've met a lot of famous people. If I ran into Tom Hanks today, I would have to remind him who I was and he would then remember me. But he wouldn't come up to me and say, 'Hi Dave!'

  

  David Zucker
  • People
  • Remember
  • Today

• It felt when I was growing up that sport was, like, the only thing you should do... if you do music, you're really different and a bit weird.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Music
  • Different
  • Growing

• When I was a child, one of my first games was a time machine which I made for my brother - a big box covered in silver and bits of cellophane. I'd close him up in it and joggle him and say, 'We're in Victorian times now... and now we're in Egyptian times, and I can see all these pyramids and pharaohs.'

  

  Kate Williams
  • Time
  • Brother
  • Child

• I grew up in New York City, and I moved to Florida in high school.

  

  Mark V. Hurd
  • School
  • High
  • City

• I grew up with a deep belief that wherever our troops fought, they were on the side of the angels.

  

  Jane Fonda
  • Up
  • Deep

• I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed so it didn't go up my nose. In fact, it may have been icing sugar.

  

  Boris Johnson
  • Up
  • May

• Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Great
  • Sorrow
  • Shallow

• Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man, this race and that race and the other race being inferior and therefore they must be placed in an inferior position. Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Up
  • Men

• Three times during the show the drums are lifted over the audience - I go up and out, right, left and back.

  

  George Peter John Criscuola Kiss
  • Up

• You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it.

  

  Emil Zatopek
  • Up
  • High

• If you never give up and you strive hard and focus on every move like a chess game, you will make it. I believe that wholeheartedly.

  

  Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band
  • Believe
  • Game
  • Focus

• My studio's always in my house. I want to wake up and be like, 'You know I'm gonna make music today in my underwear. You know what, I'm gonna be in my pajamas. You know what, I'm actually just gonna stay inside for the next three days so I can make music.'

  

  Benny Blanco
  • Music
  • Today
  • House

• I grew up in Iowa, and the improv comedy club Comedy-Sportz across the river in Illinois held auditions. They took me even though I was only 16 - you really had to be 18, but they never checked me for ID.

  

  Eric Christian Olsen
  • Up
  • Comedy
  • River

• As far as "uncut" I think we all know that you guys cut up the special. Originally it was going to be 2 hours plus and it got chopped down so I said "we can't use those words because it's not going to represent me right".

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Up
  • Words

• I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio.

  

  Frank Rich
  • Kids
  • Independent
  • Chicago

• Advice to students: Leap in and try things. If you succeed, you can have enormous influence. If you fail, you have still learned something, and your next attempt is sure to be better for it. Advice to graduates: Do something you really enjoy doing. If it isn’t fun to get up in the morning and do your job or your school program, you’re in the wrong field.

  

  Brian Kernighan
  • School
  • Job
  • Fun

• It is not always those who have the most eminent gifts who are the most successful laborers for God. It is generally those who keep up closest communion with Christ and are most constant in prayer.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Successful

• My advice is to give up stevia, aspartame, sucralose, sugar alcohols like xylitol and malitol, and all of the other heavily-used and marketed sweeteners unless you want to slow down your metabolism, gain weight, and become an addict.

  

  Mark Hyman
  • Up
  • Advice

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