Get Up Quotes - Page 32

• Even from my sickbed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel that something is going wrong, I will get up. Those who believe that after I have left the government as prime minister, I will go into a permanent retirement, really should have their heads examined.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Retirement, Believe, Government

  "Not fade away". www.economist.com. May 19, 2011.

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• I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.

  Noah Baumbach

  Writing, Done, Kind

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 09, 2005.

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• Watching a really good movie excites me, because it makes we want to get up off the couch and go shoot something and act in a scene.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Good Movie, Want, Scene

  "Emerging Actor Discusses His Breakout Role as the Late Oscar Grant". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• We can't all be stars; we can't all be leaders. We are all God's creatures, living life, and we have that God light in us and we're supposed to let it shine. And not everybody wants to be like me and stick their neck out to get up on stage and perform. There are those like me, but there are also those that are of a shyer nature. And they're smarter than most of us that are out there showing our asses.

  Dolly Parton

  Stars, Live Life, Light

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• Everybody I hang with - the ranchers, the farmers, the cops, the teachers, the plumbers, everybody I hang with - they've got an alarm clock. They get up, they put their heart and their soul into being the very best that they can be. They want to be an asset to their families and their neighborhood. They want to be productive members of society.

  Ted Nugent

  Teacher, Heart, Soul

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I get up every morning and I'm grateful for everything that has happened. I go through my list about being grateful for my children and grandchildren, and for the really remarkable life that I have been able to have.

  Madeleine Albright

  Morning, Children, Grateful

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

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• Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Thinking, Littles, Crosses

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.93, Wildside Press LLC

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• All things here appear to me to trudge on in one and the same round: we rise in the morning that we may eat breakfast, dinner andsupper and to bed again that we may get up the next morning and do the same: so that you never saw two peas more alike than our yesterday and to-day.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Morning, Two, Yesterday

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, Anas, Writings 1760-1770”, p.439, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I never knew anyone yet who got up at six who did anything more useful between that time and breakfast than banging a tennis ballup against the side of the house, waiting for the more civilized members of the party to get up.

  Robert Benchley

  Party, Sleep, House

  Robert Benchley (2010). “The Athletic Benchley: 105 Exercises from the Detroit Athletic Club News”, p.99, Glendower Media

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• The day's at end and there's nowhere to go,
  Draw to the fire, even this fire is dying;
  Get up and once again politely lying
  Invite the ladies toward the mistletoe.

  Allen Tate

  Christmas, Lying, Fire

  Allen Tate (1947). “Poems, 1920-1945: A Selection”

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• I'm for a high libido president! I applaud him if he gets up and picks up women.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Feminism, President

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• When I get up in the morning, I stay nude for three or four hours. If I really feel like getting formal, I'll put on board shorts.

  Iggy Pop

  Morning, Boards, Three

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• It didn't make much difference what time of night it was, whenever [my father would] come in drunk, he'd say, "Get up and sing me some songs." We didn't want to sing but we sang.

  George Jones

  Country, Song, Father

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• We know what we have to do. I know I have to get up in the morning, put my underwear on first and then put my pants on first. I don't need people to tell me that.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Morning, People, Underwear

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• I know she's just trying to make things nice, so I do my part. Now, when I get up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night, I turn on the light. I used to just go by sonar: just keep peeing 'til you hear water.

  Adam Ferrara

  Funny, Nice, Humor

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• ... if you're poor and ignorant, with a child, you're a slave. Meaning that you're never going to get out of it. These women are in bondage to a kind of slavery that the 13th Amendment just didn't deal with. The old master provided food, clothing and health care to the slaves because he wanted them to get up and go to work in the morning. And so on welfare: you get food, clothing and shelter--you get survival, but you can't really do anything else. You can't control your life.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Morning, Children, Ignorant

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• My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous. So when we got on a bus, he would always encourage me and my younger brother to get up and offer our seat to an old lady. I grew up kind of liking that, thinking, y'know, that's a nice thing, that's a courtesy.

  Paul McCartney

  Brother, Dad, Nice

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've been pulled out of my nice new car and laid out in the street by the police, interrogated and then have them get in the car and roll off leaving me lying in the street without even saying 'Get up.' The humiliation that they can put on a black man because they determine that you ain't got the money.

  Ice T

  Nice, Lying, Men

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• As soon as we are born, if we could but get up, bath, dress, shave, breakfast once for all, if we could 'cut' these monotonous cycles of routine. If the sun rose it would stay up, or once we were alive we were immortal!

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Cutting, Rose, Dresses

  W. N. P. Barbellion (2017). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”, p.175, Penguin UK

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• I may have more money than you, but money doesn't make the difference. If
  there is any difference between you and me, it may simply be that I get up and have a chance to do what I love to do, every day. If you learn anything from me, this is the best advice I can give you.

  Warren Buffett

  Differences, Giving, Advice

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• Get up there, where 'there' is . . . get up in front and . . . preach your guts out!

  David Asscherick

  Guts, Fronts

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• Get up from the piano ... Oscar is in the house. Who wants to be at the piano when Oscar is there? Find something else to do.

  Benny Carter

  Piano, House, Want

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• The mode of founding a college is, commonly, to get up a subscription of dollars and cents, and then, following blindly the principles of a division of labor to its extreme,--a principle which should never be followed but with circumspection,--to call in a contractor who makes this a subject of speculation,... and for these oversights successive generations have to pay.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, College, Division Of Labor

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.39, Graphic Arts Books

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• How many people would like to get up in a social prayer-meeting to say a few words for Christ, but there is such a cold spirit of criticism in the church that they dare not do it.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Prayer, People, Criticism

  Dwight L Moody (2013). “Secret Power”, p.17, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Yet, know this if you understand nothing else: You have a right to your joy; children or no children; spouse or no spouse. Seek it! Find it! And you will have a joyful family, no matter how much money you make or don't make. And if they aren't joyful, and they get up and leave you, then release them with love to seek their joy.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Children

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.174, Penguin

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