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• If you really love guitar, you're going to spend every waking hour stroking the thing.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Inspiring, Guitar

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• Sleeping or waking, we hear not the airy footsteps of the strange things that almost happen.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Sleep, Entrepreneur, Strange

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)”, p.1647, Delphi Classics

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• Our traditions have been waking up on Christmas morning and feasting on a southern breakfast. I'm from the South. We eat grits and biscuits and gravy and eggs with Ritz crackers and country ham, bacon, you name it. - Leigh

  Leigh-Allyn Baker

  Christmas, Country, Morning

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• You can lead in multiple ways. I try and lead by example, and make sure that I'm always accountable to my teammates. That starts off with my commitment to waking up early, training hard, lifting weights, and running. It's in my nutrition. It's just making sure I always put myself in the best possible position.

  Larry Fitzgerald

  Running, Commitment, Lifting Weights

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• People of all kinds are waking up. Even people passionate for Obama realize even that knight on a white horse isn't enough to roll back the oligarchy. I'm seeing a lot of action on the left as well that is never reported. But the Tea Party response is the most visible and the initiative they show is the most recognizable.

  Naomi Wolf

  Horse, Party, White

  "Naomi Wolf Thinks the Tea Parties Help Fight Fascism -- Is She Onto Something or in Fantasy Land?". Interview with Justine Sharrock, www.alternet.org. March 29, 2010.

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• Asleep vision (dreaming) is perception that is not tied down to anything in the real world; waking perception is something like dreaming with a little more commitment to what's in front of you.

  David Eagleman

  Dream, Real, Commitment

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.55, Vintage

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• I am a good man and I behave well on an everyday basis. It was not a decision of waking up one day and saying "I will be a good person today, problem solved", no, it has to be an everyday thing.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Men, Everyday Things, Decision

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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• For me, success to me is waking up and doing what you're doing every day, whatever that looks like to me.

  Chuck Harmony

  Looks, Wake Up

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.

  Thomas Browne

  Sleep, House, Spirit

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 2, sect. 12

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• I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, picture-hanging man. I don't care if he takes prescription drugs for cholesterol or hair loss.

  Mindy Kaling

  Loss, Men, Hair

  "The Office's Mindy Kaling on Why You Need a Man, Not a Boy" by Mindy Kaling, www.glamour.com. October 3, 2011.

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• I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me.

  William Nicholson

  Sleep, Needs, Flow

  "Fictional character: C.S Lewis (Jack)". "Shadowlands", 1993.

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• Waking up in the morning isn't a choice, you know.

  Gary Kraftsow

  Morning, Choices, Wake Up

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• The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.

  Idries Shah

  Sleep, Men, Surround

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• I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me.

  Will Self

  Writing, Firsts, Stills

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• The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.

  Walter Scott

  Eye, Exercise, Ideas

  Walter Scott (2015). “Sir Walter Scott: Collected Letters, Memoirs and Articles: Complete Autobiographical Writings, Journal & Notes, Accompanied with Extended Biographies and Reminiscences of the Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering”, p.69, e-artnow

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• Early risers catch the world waking and see its true colors.

  Bernie Taupin

  Color, World, True Colors

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• Hollywood is finally waking up to the fact that people who go to church also go to the movies. I'm not sure what took them so long to see that or how long they'll keep it up.

  Tyler Perry

  Long, People, Church

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

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• We've got the wind at our back right now. Americans are waking up to the realities of their previous choices. We must keep America moving back to preeminence because our values and conservative ideas are the world's greatest hope.

  Rick Perry

  Moving, Reality, Wind

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• A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Mother, Sky, Wake Up

  Meghan O'Rourke (2011). “The Long Goodbye: A Memoir”, p.14, Penguin

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• I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.

  Ted Nugent

  Attitude, Fire, Rocks

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• I'll quit coffee. It won't be easy drinking my Bailey's straight, but I'll get used to it. It'll still be the best part of waking up.

  Megan Mullally

  Women, Drinking, Coffee

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

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• Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Dream, Sleep

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• You could spend every waking moment online and still only experience one-trillionth of what's out there. I find that a little overwhelming.

  Moby

  Littles, Moments, Online

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• Of course, music is still a passion for me, and my new sort of career doing radio is also a passion, but definitely to be able to put a smile on someone's face. Or just waking up every day, trying to figure out how I can change a person's life for the better.

  Raheem Devaughn

  Passion, Careers, Trying

  "Raheem DeVaughn: Love, Love, and More Love". Interview with Faith Hunter, September 9, 2014.

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• The Yoga Sutras offers a clear roadmap for the evolution of consciousness from ordinary states of awareness such as waking, dreaming, and sleeping - to higher states of consciousness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Dream, Yoga, Sleep

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