Up Quotes

• The president's global warming proposal appears to be another faith-based initiative. We should have faith that major corporations will line up to volunteer cuts in their carbon pollution. That approach has failed for a decade since the president's father set up the first voluntary program.

  

  Paula Zahn
  • Father
  • Faith
  • Volunteer

• You know, in the beginning when your first payroll comes up and you have to borrow money to meet the payroll, you lose sleep the night before, and you say to yourself real fast, 'Well, maybe I should keep working a couple more years. It's sobering.

  

  Bill Kurtis
  • Real
  • Money
  • Night

• Coal is our most abundant fossil fuel. (GE's) development efforts are to just end up making the plants more competitive on an economic basis by using these other coals.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Development
  • Ends
  • Bases

• I was never somebody who grew up going, 'I really want to be a singer in a band,' and I never had any ambition toward anything, really.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Want
  • Band
  • Never

• There is only so much I can understand and not screw up.

  

  David Krumholtz
  • Up

• Hush, call no echo up in further proof Of desolation! there's a voice within That weeps . . . as thou must sing . . . alone, aloof.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Up
  • Alone

• It’s funny how the good things are all tied up with the bad. Sometimes it’s hard to tell which is which. But either way, you end up taking your sugar with your salt and your kicks with your kisses.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Way

• Before doing my first open mic, I was sitting in the back watching all these comedians banter back and forth and fire jokes and up each other, and I thought, 'This is where I wanna be.'

  

  Patton Oswalt
  • Up
  • Fire

• Growing up in Israel, how can I not be an optimist? When you remember what Israel was 50 years ago and you see Israel now, one of the most successful countries in the world, stable, democratic, with an enormously stable economy despite everything that has happened in the global economy in the last few years, how can I not be an optimist?

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • World
  • Remember
  • Growing

• I've always felt that writing can be learned but not really taught. The best thing somebody can do for you is to put the right book in your hands at the right time. I grew up in a family where the right book was always being put in my hands.

  

  Jennifer Haigh
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Family

• I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.

  

  Keith Haring
  • Poetry
  • Fallen
  • Enlightened

• My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to make that choice.

  

  Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Time
  • Different
  • Children

• Time is what makes good stories. Much has been cooking for a long time, and at last finds an out in narration one day. That's a supreme joy. And why the characters keep showing up.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• Now, if I speak to people who want to act, I say, 'Don't give yourself a back-up.' If I had gone to university, I wouldn't be doing this job now. Having that pressure and no other option just made me work that much harder for it, because you have no other choice.

  

  Tuppence Middleton
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• It's about polarization. You're trying to stir up something in your audience.

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.
  • Up
  • Trying

• It takes guts to realize you screwed up and to then come clean without any excuses.

  

  Brandon Webb
  • Up
  • Excuses

• I think I'm a realist. Which people who don't like me consider to be pessimism. It isn't pessimism at all. If I was a pessimist I wouldn't get up, I wouldn't shave, I wouldn't watch Batman at 7:30 a.m. Pessimists just don't do that sort of thing.

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • People
  • Batman
  • Realist

• It's the ultimate goal every day you wake up, to be happy. At the end of the week, you want to be happy. Happy in love, happy in work, happy in life, happy with yourself. It's pretty simple.

  

  Pierce Brosnan
  • Life
  • Work
  • Happy

• I grew up in Balham in south London, and my best friend's brother was Geoffrey Robinson, who of course later became paymaster general, but at that time, he was working in politics.

  

  Art Malik
  • Time
  • Friend
  • Brother

• When I get up there, maybe I'm nervous for the first song, but then I get into it. It's a lot of fun to stand up there. I always enjoy the moment when I'm actually standing on stage. When I'm done, I'm like, 'Oh, I want to play one more song.'

  

  Kygo
  • Done
  • Fun
  • Song

• If God calls you, pick up the damn phone!

  

  Janice Fyffe
  • Up
  • God

• I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show.

  

  Branford Marsalis
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Popular

• The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.

  

  Bianca Jagger
  • World
  • War
  • Fighting

• One of my strengths is my explosive power. Especially at the start line, where you have to accelerate faster than your competitor. I train for that by lifting barbells. It helps your hips thrust and your muscles twitch faster, and it builds strength. But I don't do too much gym work because I don't want to bulk up.

  

  Bryony Shaw
  • Work
  • Power
  • Gym

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