Up Quotes

• So long as TARP money is wrapped up in GM, the company will never shake its 'Government Motors' image. That label, as competitors and GM employees are keenly aware, is code for one thing: 'GM is a failure.'

  

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.
  • Long
  • Money
  • Failure

• When I was growing up, I never saw couples fight on the family sitcoms I loved to watch. Subsequently, when tough times arose in my own relationship, I wasn't prepared and felt so isolated and alone. Marital issues weren't a part of the narrative that television told me was a 'working relationship.'

  

  Kenya Barris
  • Family
  • Growing
  • Relationship

• If I don't feel confident about my body, I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.

  

  Kim Kardashian
  • Work
  • Home
  • Action

• I often get people that come up to me with the UFC 151 poster with me and Dan on it and ask me to sign it.

  

  Jon Jones
  • People
  • Up

• I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you're not interested in them so that they'll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What's he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don't want to sign up for that.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Start

• I was wrong about that young man of yours. A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep. Now, whenever that young man looked at you he looked like a sheep. I take back all I said this morning. It is genuine.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Up
  • Help
  • Morning

• I grew up at 16 years old driving trucks across the George Washington Bridge.

  

  Don Sherwood
  • Up
  • Driving
  • Bridge

• I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.

  

  Mary Cassatt
  • Up
  • Tree

• I saw what religion did to people when I grew up, and I certainly didn't want any part of it. That turned me off it.

  

  Kristian Nairn
  • People
  • Up

• When I was growing up, there was a character on TV; there was a character stereotype: it was personified by Mel on 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'

  

  Jeffrey Tambor
  • Up
  • Character
  • Growing

• Just understanding that if you're not growing up, you're just moving backwards, and I'm a person that I always want to grow and learn and not be the smartest person in the room, because when you're not the smartest person in the room, you're always learning things.

  

  Ndamukong Suh
  • Growing
  • Learning
  • Moving

• Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars...or your two legs...or your hands...or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate them.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Life
  • World
  • Eyes

• After I came home from the 1936 Olympics with my four medals, it became increasingly apparent that everyone was going to slap me on the back, want to shake my hand or have me up to their suite. But no one was going to offer me a job.

  

  Jesse Owens
  • Home
  • Job
  • Hand

• The build-up of personal and collective debt in America and Europe should have sent warning signals to anyone familiar with the biblical institutions of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years, created specifically because of the danger of people being trapped by debt.

  

  Jonathan Sacks
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• I was born in Monterrey, Mexico, and I would go to school in Texas. I lived on the border, so I was very fortunate to grow up between two worlds and both cultures and both languages and traditions.

  

  Bianca Marroquin
  • Up
  • School
  • Texas

• As I grew up, I became aware that there are people with special needs out there, and I have a real connection with them.

  

  Elena Delle Donne
  • People
  • Real
  • Connection

• I was 16 and got my boyfriend's name tattooed on me. Don't do it. 'Cause it hurts. The moment you do it, the next month, the next year, you'll be broken up - trust me - and cover-ups hurt. You can show your love in other ways. Ink is not it. Write it on a piece of paper and mail it to him.

  

  Lauren London
  • Trust
  • Hurt
  • Broken

• Maybe I've had a sheltered life and career, but I have so many role models to look up to. It's normal that I would strive to build my own career.

  

  Lauren Bush
  • Life
  • Up
  • Career

• I remember with my first album, I was so scared of messing it up, of blowing the opportunity, that I blew it.

  

  Mike Posner
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Opportunity

• The phenomenon of dreaming ... helped to build up the notion of an unreal or spiritual world; and in general, all the conditions of savage dawn-life so strongly conduced toward a feeling of the supernatural, that we need not wonder at the thoroughness with which man's very hereditary essence has become saturated with religion and superstition.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • World
  • Feeling

• I love 'Donnie Brasco' and 'Days of Thunder,' so after I did 'The Skulls,' I was like, 'I want to be either an undercover cop, or I want to race cars!' Universal came to me with a newspaper article about street racing in L.A., and I was like, 'Are you kidding me? I grew up doing that right off Peoria in Sun Valley.' They asked if I wanted to do it.

  

  Paul Walker
  • Up
  • Sun

• School disruption comes from those children who have given up hope.

  

  Albert Shanker
  • Children
  • School
  • Hope

• You can be a victim or you can be rich, but you can't be both. Listen up! Every time, and I mean every time, you blame, justify, or complain, you are slitting your financial throat.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Time
  • Mean
  • Financial

• I don't try to be in fashion; I don't try to follow trends. You just end up out of fashion that way.

  

  Alice Temperley
  • Up
  • Fashion

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