Up Quotes
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I grew up in this poor place, with very limited circumstances, at about 16 years of age was sent by my family to work, and instead of remaining in the position into which I was sent, I somehow worked my way out of it without any help from anyone, just luck.
Jamaica Kincaid
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Dad is a really surprising guy. Every time I think he's going to be useless, he ends up doing something amazing and saying exactly the right thing.
Clare Balding
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There's a historical view that adding process into a scrappy start-up kills innovation, but I'm a firm believer that you need process at some point to remain agile.
Belinda Johnson
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You are not going to be perfect every day. It's about turning up the next day and doing it again.
Krista Tippett
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Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.
Ken Robinson
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And what a clever guy this Harpole is, isn’t he? Awfully good at noticing all kinds of little unusual things about people and keeping them on file in his head. So he’s built a theory around us, has he? He added two and two and came up with five, but nobody else in the house was aware there was anything to count.
Kage Baker
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There weren't a lot of action roles growing up - there were a few, maybe, like Wonder Woman, but then it wasn't real action.
Kelly Hu
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Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
Jim Rohn
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It's flattering to people who stop you and say that you've helped them and all. But, again, you know, you've got to stay humble because as quick as you came up, you can come down.
Joel Osteen
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I grew up in Russia. We had a telephone line, but a load of our neighbours didn't. It became a shared resource for the whole apartment complex. People would come and knock on the door and ask to call their family in another city.
Jan Koum
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I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge.
Ben Nelson
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
Frederick Douglass
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Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.
Jean Baudrillard
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I love saying dialogue and creating a full character more than just being physical. But I always end up doing physical stuff in my roles.
Kelly Stables
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We think of beauty as being most worthy of reverence. But what is most worthy of reverence lights up only where the magnificent strength to revere is alive. To revere is not a thing for the petty and lowly, the incapacitated and underdeveloped. It is a matter of tremendous passion; only what flows from such passion is in the grand style.
Martin Heidegger
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It's very difficult today for girls to become supermodels. There is a lot more competition, a lot of countries in the East have opened up so there are many more models than there were in the Nineties. Now they have to compete with famous actresses but also with, say, reality stars to be on the magazine covers.
Claudia Schiffer
