Straight Up Quotes

• I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.

  Tupac Shakur

  Blood, People, Cold

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Shine it up real nice, turn it sideways, and stick it straight up your candy ass!

  Dwayne Johnson

  Real, Nice, Wrestling

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• What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?

  Bradford Cox

  Song, Writing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Speak the truth. Affirm your desire. Declare your intentions. Recall your successes. Your psyche will believe you. Your body will feel you. Your Soul will thank you for the straight-up communication.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Communication, Believe, Soul

  "Why Affirmations Can Mess You Right Up (And What to Say to Yourself Instead)" by Danielle LaPorte, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 29, 2012.

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• Pastor Veronica told the story of a sparrow lying in the street with its legs straight up in the air, straining. a warhorse walks up to it, and says, 'What on earth are you doing?' The sparrow replies, 'I heard the sky was falling, and I wanted to help.'The warhorse sneers-- 'Do you really think you're going to hold back the sky, with those scrawny little legs?' And the sparrow says, 'One does what one can.'

  Anne Lamott

  Lying, Fall, Thinking

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• Things work out better when you're straight up.

  Kate Jacobs

  Work Out, Things Work Out

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• You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you.

  Whitney Houston

  Home, Night, People

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• If you're trying to force the story to be a straight up romance, it's going to be weird for you.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Romance, Trying, Stories

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• I was a power dunker. I want to go straight up, put it down on somebody. I want everybody under there.

  Darryl Dawkins

  Want

  "Dime Q&A: Darryl Dawkins Reveals The Origin of His Nickname And Recalls His First Dunk". Uproxx Interview, uproxx.com. August 4, 2011.

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• People expect us to be a straight up dance band but there are many more elements to our sound that you really get to see during our live show and hear on our record 'See The Light.'

  Nomi Ruiz

  Light, People, Sound

  "Jessica 6's Nomi". Interview with Sam Blodgett, brightestyoungthings.com. April 8, 2011.

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• When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up.

  Brian Tracy

  Self Esteem, Believe, Acceptance

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• Remember, your body needs 6 to 8 glasses of fluid daily. Straight up or on the rocks.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Drinking, Health

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, p.57, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• In all states of dilemma or of difficulty, prayer is an available source. The ship of prayer may sail through all temptations, doubts and fears, straight up to the throne of God; and though she may be outward bound with only griefs, and groans, and sighs, she shall return freighted with a wealth of blessings!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Grief, Blessing

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• Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true! I prefer to be.

  Raymond Chandler

  Fashion, Cat, Tree

  Raymond Chandler (1987). “Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler”, Delta

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• I want to teach the post basic moves: turn and bank; drop-step and shoot a power layup; turn to the middle, pump-fake, one-bounce layup; and I want to teach five power moves. They are power layup straight up; pump-fake one bounce to the other side power layup; pogo when you catch it up high, keep it up high, and shoot it; and then the two-hand follow shot.

  Jim Harrick

  Basketball, Moving, Hands

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• But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and the piano. It's not completely me because there are parts of me that aren't on that song, that are on the album.

  Vanessa Carlton

  Song, Dark, Rocks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I remember being at Greenblatt's on Sunset, and some guy just walked straight up to me, and he had some bling on and whatever, and said something about a party down in Malibu and asked if I would jump in his car and go to the party. All I could think was, 'Who are you? I don't know you, and I don't care about how good your car is.'

  Yvonne Strahovski

  Party, Sunset, Thinking

  "Yvonne Strahovski Interview" by Daniel Barna, www.askmen.com.

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• I have a little sister, and I'm constantly annoyed [by] how terribly written most females are in most everything - and especially in comedy. Their anatomy seems to be the only defining aspect of their character, and I just find that untrustful and it straight-up offends me.

  Jay Baruchel

  Character, Profound, Annoyed

  "Jay Baruchel on His Hockey Comedy, Goon, Meeting James Franco, and Writing for Women". Interview With Jennifer Vineyard, www.vulture.com. March 26, 2012.

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• Somehow, one never really runs away, or I never have, and I find that the faster I go the more catches up with me... all the while time stands, to me, still - straight up and down like a great white sheet.

  Joy Hester

  Running, Wisdom, White

  Joy Hester, Sunday Reed (1997). “Dear Sun: The Letters of Joy Hester and Sunday Reed”

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• Armed and dangerous, ain't too many can bang with us
  Straight up weed no angel dust, label us Notorious
  Thug ass niggaz that love to bust, it's strange to us
  Y'all niggaz be scramblin, gamblin
  Up in restaraunts with mandolins, and violins
  We just sittin here tryin to win, tryin not to sin
  High off weed and lots of gin
  So much smoke need oxygen, steadily countin them Benjamins

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Weed, Rap, Angel

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• Professor Focke and his technicians standing below grew ever smaller as I continued to rise straight up, 50 metres, 75 metres, 100 metres. Then I gently began to throttle back and the speed of ascent dwindled till I was hovering motionless in midair. This was intoxicating! I thought of the lark, so light and small of wing, hovering over the summer fields. Now man had wrested from him his lovely secret.

  Hanna Reitsch

  Summer, Men, Light

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• There was a survey done a few years ago that affected me greatly. it was discovered that intelligent people either estimate their intelligence accurately or slightly underestimate themselves, but stupid people overestimate their intelligence and by huge margins. (And these were things like straight up math tests, not controversial IQ tests.)

  Harvey Pekar

  Stupid, Math, Intelligent

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• The weeping voices rise straight up and strike the clouds. A passer-by at the roadside asks a conscript why, The conscript answers only that drafting happens often.

  Du Fu

  Clouds, Voice, Answers

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• I played in Joe Louis in a playoff game. I played there when the roof caved in for half a season. The facility is great for basketball because it goes straight up, so you feel like the fans are on top of you.

  Bill Laimbeer

  Basketball, Games, Fans

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• There is so much that is fake about our society. My generation is craving something that is real, honest and true. The Message is straight up! It's modern, relevant, and direct.

  Rebecca St. James

  Real, Fake, Generations

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