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“I've never been the kind of person who would get up and wave my arms and scream and shout and say, 'Hey, listen to this, listen to this.”

Kind Persons Arms Wave Get Up Hey Scream

Author:Gillian Welch

“I'm satisfied and proud of the things I did - even the bumps and the bruises that I've had on the way. You fall down, you get up, you brush yourself off and you keep going. And that's what we're doing.”

Way Fall Proud Satisfied Get Up Keep Going Brushes Falling Down Bumps Bruises

Author:Gucci Mane

“When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you can't do that when you have two children!”

Children Two Night Sleep Morning Middle Mom Paint Get Up Middle Of The Night

Author:Julie Mehretu

“Left to my own devices I'd get up at midday every day of my life.”

Left My Own Get Up Devices

Author:Catherine McCormack

“I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.”

“From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.”

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Author:Olivia Williams

“There are always moments of despair when you get close to jobs and lose them at the last second. It feels like getting punched in the stomach. You feel like, 'Why do I do this?' Then you go to bed, get up the next day and forget about it.”

Feels Moments Jobs Lasts Next Loses Forget Bed Despair Get Up Stomach Next Day

Author:Ricky Schroder

“We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and it’s full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it worth living — the only thing that makes it possible to get up in the morning and go on living — is play. Art and play.”

Art Play Pain Life Is Suffering Morning Study Goes On Get Up Crap Worth Living Pain And Suffering

Author:Brian Sutton-Smith

“It's easy for me not to go to Mass on the road. But I've made a fundamental decision. I'm going to be dedicated. I'm going to make the time. I'm going to get up, if that means getting up at seven on a Sunday morning before a day game and do it, I'm going to do it.”

Ifs Mean Made Games Easy Decision Morning Mass Fundamentals Seven Get Up Sunday Dedicated Sunday Morning

Author:Mike Piazza

“I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.”

Space Guitar Get Up Solo Outfits Guitar Solos

Author:Ace Frehley

“When a guy knocks ya down, never get up unless he's gonna kill ya.”

Guy Killing Get Up

Author:Gennaro Angiulo

“I get between nine and ten hours of sleep. Go to bed at 8:30 and get up at 6:00 or 6:30 if I oversleep.”

Ifs Hours Sleep Bed Ten Nine Get Up

Author:Philip Johnson

“I get up early and open my emails, write cheques and answer the phone; whatever needs to be done.”

Needs Writing Done Answers Phones Get Up Email Up Early Cheques

Author:Martin Parr

“I'm a morning person: if I don't get up, put the coffee on and get to my desk by 8, the day has already lost a lot of its promise.”

Ifs Persons Lost Morning Promise Coffee Get Up Desks Morning Person

Author:Jennifer Gilmore

“I've got bills to pay like everyone else. I'm a high-earner but I don't see myself as rich. I know in some people's eyes I probably am, but I will always have to work. My son Matt asked me if we were rich the other day and I told him that in my view, being rich is not having to get up to go to work. I can't see myself ever being in that position.”

People Ifs Knows I Can Eye Views Pay Rich Position Son Bills Get Up My Son Being Rich Bills To Pay

Author:Steve McFadden

“On tour, I'll get up at 5 p.m. and go to bed at 8 in the morning. With fishing, it's the exact opposite. Fishing is the only healthy thing I do. Touring is such a grind; it's the opposite of healthy.”

Morning Healthy Bed Opposites Get Up Fishing Touring Grind

Author:Mickey Melchiondo

“The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.”

“When you meditate make sure you stay awake. If you are falling asleep get up and splash some water on yourself or sleep until you are refreshed.”

Ifs Fall Water Sleep Get Up Awake Falling Asleep

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I get up every morning with a desire to do some creative work. This desire is made of the same stuff as the sexual desire, the desire to make money, or any other desire.”

Made Desire Stuff Morning Creative Get Up Making Money Every Morning Creative Work Sexual Desire

Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer

“It is painful to recall a past intensity, to estimate your distance from the Belsen heap, to make your peace with numbers. Just to get up each morning is to make a kind of peace.”

Kind Past Peace Numbers Morning Distance Painful Get Up Intensity Recalls

Author:Leonard Cohen

“I don`t set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it.”

Feels Get Up Alarms

Author:Patricia Highsmith

“I'm walking insecurity. Without all this makeup, I look like a refugee when I get up in the morning.... I generally look like one major bowwow. I mean arf.”

Looks Mean Morning Walking Majors Get Up Insecurity Makeup Refugee

Author:Connie Chung

“As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.”

Reason Literature Morning Becoming Concerned Get Up

Author:Neil Gaiman

“A Fighter gets up... No matter what.”

Matter No Matter What Get Up Fighter

Author:Cara Castronuova

“When you get up in the morning and know you're doing something you love, feel fit and look after yourself, it's just a great thing to do.”

Knows Feels Looks Morning Fit Great Things Get Up Things To Do Something You Love Look After Yourself

Author:Jermain Defoe

“I just get up in the morning and say: 'Yeah man, I'm ready to score goals.'”

Men Goal Morning Ready Yeah Get Up Score

Author:Jermain Defoe

“One of my earliest memories is seeing the bright blue, Epic 45 of Jackie Wilson singing 'Higher and Higher,' and I'd say, 'That one!' and my parents would play it every Sunday afternoon and we'd all get up and leap around the house.”

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Author:Bronagh Gallagher

“If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind's clothing with more sooty knowledge.”

Ifs Mind Fire Get Up Burning Smoke Clothings Perfume

Author:Adyashanti

“I can only tell you one thing that I do know for sure, I am a dreamer. There are not many people that will recognize or want to recognize the fact that they are dreamers in their own life ... I continue to get up in the morning,enthusiastically, and go pick up a golf club with a thought that I can somewhere find that secret to making the cut. That's just an example, but it applies to other things in life, too, and that's the way I live and the way I think and the way I feel.”

People Thinking Knows Way Want Feels I Can Facts Secret Morning Cutting One Thing Example Picks Golf Clubs Get Up Dreamer Things In Life Golf Clubs

Author:Arnold Palmer

“Reduce your wants and lead a happy and contented life. Never hurt the feelings of others and be kind to all. Think of God as soon as you get up and when you go to bed.”

Thinking Want Kind Feelings Hurt Bed Get Up Be Kind Happy And Contented

Author:Dharma Mittra

“I enter a whorehouse with the same interest as I do the British museum or the Metropolitan - in the same spirit of curiosity. Here are the works of man, here is an art of man, here is the eternal pursuit of gold and pleasure. I couldn't be more sincere. This doesn't mean that if I go to La Scala in Milan to hear Carmen I want to get up on the stage and participate. I do not. Neither do I always participate in a fine representative national whorehouse - but I must see it as a spectacle, an offering, a symptom of a nation.”

“When you get up in the morning, before you suffer yourselves to eat one mouthful of food, call your wife and children together, bow down before the Lord, ask him to forgive your sins, and protect you through the day, to preserve you from temptation and all evil, to guide your steps aright.”

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Author:Brigham Young

“I still love doing what I do, and I'm really lucky to get up in the morning and want to go to work.”

Want Stills Morning Lucky Get Up

Author:Heston Blumenthal

“Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching.”

Sometimes Whole Religion Christianity Get Up Preaching Congregation

Author:Leonard Ravenhill

“We fall, but we get up because the ground is no place for a champion.”

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Author:Dustin Poirier

“My legacy to me is-when I drop dead and they're at my funeral - I want my three kids to get up and say, 'He's an awesome dad'.”

Want Kids Three Dad Get Up Legacy Mma Funeral

Author:Dana White

“Get up my friend. If you're still breathing, there's still time enough for greatness.”

Ifs Stills Enough Greatness My Friends Get Up Breathing Mma

Author:Andrew Craig

“I get up each morning, gather my wits, pick up the paper and read the obits. If I'm not there, I know I'm not dead, so I eat a good breakfast and go back to bed.”

Ifs Knows Morning Bed Paper Picks Wit Get Up Breakfast Obesity

Author:Pete Seeger

“Every time you get knocked down you get up stronger.”

Inspirational Stronger Get Up Knocked Down

Author:Marlon Brando

“Try again. Fall flat on your face, get up, try again. Fall on your face, get up, try again.”

Trying Faces Fall Get Up Flats Mma Your Face Try Again

Author:Frank Mir

“The beginning of a painting is a very energized, exciting time, and it generates most of the energy I have. If I've gotten 75 per cent of it down, then it takes an effort to really get up that kind of energy to finish it in the same way it's begun.”

Ifs Way Kind Energy Effort Painting Exciting Get Up Cents Finishing

Author:Burton Silverman

“I say to people that it's a choice that we make every day in our lives. Doesn't matter what you're going through. You don't have to be going through what I went through. But it's whether you decide to get up or stay down, whether you say 'yes' or whether you say 'no' to life. Basically, I decided to say, 'Yes.'”

People Matter Choices Our Lives Decided Get Up

Author:Janine Shepherd

“I'm sure everyone feels sorry for the individual who has fallen by the wayside or who can't keep up in our competitive society, but my own compassion goes beyond that to those millions of unsung men and women, who get up every morning, send the kids to school, go to work, try to keep up the payments on their house, pay exorbitant taxes to make possible compassion for the less fortunate, and as a result have to sacrifice many of their own desires and dreams and hopes. Government owes them something better than always finding a new way to make them share the fruit of their toils with others.”

“When I get up at five in the morning to go fishing, I wake my wife up and ask, 'What'll it be dear, sex or fishing?' And she says, “Don't forget your waders.'”

Asks Sex Forget Morning Five Wife Dear My Wife Get Up Fishing Forget You

Author:Robert Ruark

“Catch-and-release, that's like running down pedestrians in your car and then, when they get up and limp away, saying -- 'Off you go! That's fine. I just wanted to see if I could hit you.'”

Ifs Running Wanted Car Fine Get Up Release If I Could Pedestrians

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.”

Men Use Democratic Get Up Shops Fellowship Plain Speaking

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while.”

Mean Turns Ability Effects Climate Species Climate Change Get Up Heat Virtuous Carbon Ecosystems Delayed Heating

Author:Bill Gates

“I’m gone for eight months…If you feel that it’s critical to contact me, that I get involved in your problem, what I want you to do is to lie down. When that feeling goes away, I want you to get up, solve the problem, and then send me an e-mail with the solution.”

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Author:Bob Davids

“I found out about college radio and this whole noise genre blew me away. When I saw that guys could just get up there and have no traditional music ability and be in a band, it was really appealing to me.”

Whole Guy Found Ability Saws College Band Radio Noise Traditional Get Up Genre That Guy Traditional Music

Author:Girl Talk

“I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then go to the movie set, and then come home at night to my real life.”

Want Made Real Home Night My Own Bed Hollywood Real Life Get Up Coming Home Movie Sets

Author:Sydney Pollack