Up Quotes
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I've got a different life. I live up on a farm; I don't have anything to do with social media.
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It's insulting when somebody who is not a member of our community feels like they have a great understanding of what it's like to grow up gay in this country.
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I used to cover the environment, and it does have the advantage of the fact that when you call people up and ask them questions, their first instinct is not to lie to you.
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I may not be loud but that doesn't mean I'm not strong within myself. My mum and dad instilled in me to stand up for what I believe in – and I do.
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I made a dollar a day sweeping a laundry out. Then we made a record that was number two in Los Angeles. We got so excited hearing it on the radio that Carl threw up.
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When a man makes up his mind to thrash another, he must also make up his mind to be a little thrashed himself.
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Your morning sets up the success of your day. So many people wake up and immediately check text messages, emails, and social media. I use my first hour awake for my morning routine of breakfast and meditation to prepare myself.
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.
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Life is designed to knock you down. It will knock you down time and time again, but it doesn't matter how many times you fall - it matters how many times you get back up.
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…jumped-up commercials pretending, too late, to be the ruling class..
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I would always talk with my friends in English and Spanglish, but it was more like slang. It was more like, 'Yo, what's up, dog?' But in Spanish, I know what's proper, and what's ghetto. I know the difference.
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I learned to knit in 2002, six months after my 5-year-old daughter, Grace, died suddenly from a virulent form of strep. I was unable to read or write, and friends suggested I take up knitting; almost immediately I fell under its spell.
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One thing about being a celebrity that I learned a long time ago was that I pretty much gave up the right to fair treatment.
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Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing a presence, a permanence.
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The problem with motor neurone disease is they don't know when it starts. People go into hospital having fallen but get wrapped up and sent away, unless they're seen by an incredibly astute doctor. It is only when several things begin to go wrong that it'll be diagnosed.
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Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
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When I was young, to have had somebody out there to look up to... it would have made a world of difference; it would have changed my life.
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Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.
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The roots that weave up my right arm and onto my neck are my way of connecting with the earth: the earth's roots carry water like a human's veins carry blood.
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Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.
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Antwone's story was a story of hope and that's what appealed to me. I needed hope myself at that time. I think all actors give up at some time and think they're never going to make it.
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For four years doing that same character all the time kind of bothered me. Butit opened up a lot of doors.
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There's something different about growing up black and Muslim, especially in New Jersey. It's like when I left the mosque and I left my dad, I felt unprotected, but I also felt a weird sense of pride, like I was involved in this other way of living that was cool to me.
