Uptight Quotes

• I think that I was being much more uptight about those things before. I feel like I really don't have to prove anything at this point other than what I'm doing.

  Diana Krall

  Thinking, Feels, Prove

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• Practically everybody knows what its like to feel anxious, worried, nervous, afraid, uptight, or panicky. Often, anxiety is just a nuisance, but sometimes it can cripple you and prevent you from doing what you really want with your life. But I have some great news for you: You can change the way you feel.

  David D. Burns

  Anxiety, Nuisance, News

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• Tommie Aaron taught me how to have a good attitude, to be easy going and not get uptight.

  Dale Murphy

  Attitude, Taught, Fierce

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• Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Wall, Flower, Artist

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

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• The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.

  Carl Yastrzemski

  Sports, Time, Sigh Of Relief

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• I don't advise a haircut, man. All hairdressers are in the employment of the government. Hairs are your aerials. They pick up signals from the cosmos, and transmit them directly into the brain. This is the reason bald-headed men are uptight.

  Bruce Robinson

  Men, Hair, Brain

  Bruce Robinson (2015). “Withnail and I”, p.33, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Contrary to the royal and uptight image of polo, I want to bring it to a younger generation. This is a great sport that can have a larger audience and appeal to more people. Sportsmanship is lacking in many other sports that I don't want to name.

  Randeep Hooda

  Sports, Names, People

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• One of the things that comedy has given me over the years is a really good ability to laugh at myself and to not take things that don't really matter too seriously. I feel like very little offends me anymore. I'm really grateful for that because I think I was a pretty uptight little kid.

  Anna Faris

  Grateful, Kids, Thinking

  "Comic Actress Anna Faris Finds Herself in House Bunny". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2008.

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• It sounds funny, but my biggest fear is that I'm not perfect. I'm a perfectionist, and I get upset when things go wrong or when I don't do well. I used to be very uptight, but I've learned to loosen up.

  Nick Jonas

  Perfect, Upset, Sound

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

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• I never joined the army because at ease was never that easy to me. Seemed rather uptight still. I don't relax by parting my legs slightly and putting my hands behind my back. That does not equal ease. At ease was not being in the military. I am at ease, bro, because I am not in the military.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Military, Humor

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• I have always had severe problems with Austrians. ... Musical, churchy, uptight... nice legs... hypocritical... authoritarian... always insist their dustbins are very clean.

  Peter Greenaway

  Nice, Musical, Legs

  Peter Greenaway (1999). “Eight and a half women”, Dis Voir Editions

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• ...when you let go of your expectations, when you accept life as it is, you're free.To hold on is to be serious and uptight. To let go is to lighten up.

  Richard Carlson

  Letting Go, Expectations, Serious

  Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• I was a Christian. I didn't want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26.

  Jimmy Carr

  Christian, Sex, Self

  "What I know about women". Interview with Jon Bennett, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2008.

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• Don't let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone.

  Stephen King

  Parenting, Admitting, Sun

  Commencement Address, University of Maine at Orono, May 07, 2005.

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• When it comes to dressing well, American culture is so self-fulfilled that it has not only disregarded this courtesy of self-presentation, but has turned that disregard into a virtue. "We are too superior/busy/cool/not-uptight to bother about how we look to other people, and so we can wear pajamas to school and underwear to the mall.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  School, Self, People

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• THE ONLY GOOD THING IS MY FANS LIKE ME AND COME TO SEE ME AND THATS ALL THAT MATTERS. EVERYBODY ELSE CAN KISS MY ASS. IF THEY DONT LIKE MY POLITICAL INCORRECTNESS THEN THEY CAN KEEP THEIR UPTIGHT P C ASS AWAY FROM MY SHOW. ITS THAT EASY.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Kissing, Political, Fans

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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• To make a squirrel look less uptight, put tiny sunglasses on it.

  Demetri Martin

  Squirrels, Sunglasses, Looks

  Twitter post from Jun 18, 2012

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• People who are too uptight make me nervous.

  Victoria Chang

  People, Nervous

  Interview with Colin Winnette, logger.believermag.com. June 23, 2014.

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• Don't let the sun go down on me.

  Elton John

  Forgiveness, Anger, Angry Man

  Song: Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me, 1974

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• God, teach me to be patient, teach me to go slow

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Patience, Patient, Teach

  Helen Steiner Rice, Virginia Ruehlmann (2004). “The Poems and Prayers of Helen Steiner Rice”, p.222, Revell

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• By tuning in to your minute-to-minute stream of consciousness, you discover the addictions that make you worried, anxious, resentful, uptight, afraid, angry, bored, etc. You thus use every uncomfortable emotion as an opportunity for consciousness growth. Even though you may still be feeling emotional and uptight, you begin to get at the roots of your ups and downs - your brief bits of pleasure and your long periods of unhappiness.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Opportunity, Emotional, Roots

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• You can't put down anybody. You can just try and understand. The emphasis shouldn't be on revolution, it should be on communication. Because it's just going to get more uptight. The more the revolution goes on, and there will be a civil war sooner or later.

  David Bowie

  War, Communication, Trying

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.26, Melville House

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• Hug and kiss whoever helped get you - financially, mentally, morally, emotionally - to this day. Parents, mentors, friends, teachers. If you're too uptight to do that, at least do the old handshake thing, but I recommend a hug and a kiss. Don't let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone.

  Stephen King

  Teacher, Kissing, Parent

  Commencement Address, University of Maine at Orono, May 07, 2005.

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• I've noticed the people most uptight about smokers and drinkers don't really have a problem with gluttony and gossip.

  Tim Hawkins

  Gossip, People, Advice

  Twitter post from Sep 01, 2013

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• What are you? Insane? I’m not interested in Ms. Preppy Uptight Sloan Ranger. Jeez. I’d get khaki between my teeth. Can you imagine? I’ve never been in khaki and I never want to see a woman out it. It scares me. (Dev)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Insane, Scare, Teeth

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