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“We have to make sure that college is accessible and affordable. Two years ago, I stood here and called upon our institutions of higher learning to develop plans for degrees that cost no more than $10,000. There were plenty of detractors at that time who insisted it couldn't be done. However, that call inspired educators at colleges and universities across our state to step up to the plate. Today, I'm proud to tell you that thirteen Texas universities have announced plans for a $10,000 degree.”

“I think everybody has to be better, right from me out. Everybody has to step up their games for us to be successful here. I've been lucky to be on some good teams over the years and that's what it takes, everybody contributing night after night.”

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Author:Ed Belfour

“His fielding leaves you wondering. Then he steps up to hit and all doubts start to fade.”

Wonder Steps Doubt Baseball Fades Step Up

Author:Mickey Mantle

“It's sort of like in the movie The Karate Kid when Daniel said he needed Mr. Miyagi. And Mr. Miyagi gave him that confidence to believe he really didn't. These guys think they really need me right now, but they don't. When I come back, we'll all need each other to step up our games and do what needs to be done.”

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Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“Don't let fear or frustration - or the fact that others around you seem to be all set - immobilize you. But do, from this day forward, open yourself up to possibilities you might never have considered. Step up. Step out of your comfort zone. Consider saying ‘yes’ even when ‘no’ feels much safer”

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Author:Meredith Vieira

“The core of a man's life should be his relationship with God. The man who walks humbly with God is motivated and empowered to step up and assume the difficult responsibilitie s that come his way.”

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Author:Dennis Rainey

“Honestly, Battlestar is a truly unique thing, and its hard for anything to step up to that. There arent often shows that are as good as that.”

Hard Shows Steps Unique Honestly Step Up Unique Things

Author:Tahmoh Penikett

“The Church will never reach her full redemptive potential until men and women with the leadership gift step up and lead.”

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Author:Bill Hybels

“That's why you bring in a veteran player. You never know when a player goes down, a guy's got to step up and play.”

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Author:Mike Shanahan

“It's time for me to step up and take control. That's what I've always been used to.”

Used Steps Nfl Step Up Take Control

Author:Philip Rivers

“What we learned in there is significantly more than what is out in the media today. I can't speak to what we learned in there, and I don't know if there are other leaks, if there is more information somewhere, if somebody else is going to step up, but I will tell you that I believe it's just the tip of the iceberg.”

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Author:Loretta Sanchez

“Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had.”

People Doe Growth Steps Rate Characteristics Step Up Implants

Book:No Laughing Matter: The Autobiography of a Wasp

Source: No Laughing Matter: The Autobiography of a Wasp

“You come to realize that life is short, and you have to step up. Don't feel sorry for me. Much is expected of those who are strong.”

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Author:Arthur Ashe

“Many people have the right aim in life, they just never get around to pulling the trigger. The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps -- we must step up the stairs.”

People Enough Vision Steps Aim Staring Pulling Venture Triggers Stairs Step Up Pulling The Trigger

Author:Vance Havner

“I try to always step up to the plate, be professional, be good at what I'm doing and deliver on the character. In Hollywood, what more can you ask for. You want a consummate professional.”

Want Trying Character Asks Steps Hollywood Be Good Plates Step Up

Author:Martin Lawrence

“Indecision is a form of self-abuse - be ready to step up!”

Self Form Steps Ready Abuse Step Up Indecision

Author:Suzanne Evans

“When the time comes to start building deep space transports and refueling rocket tankers, it will be the commercial industry that steps up, not another government-owned, government-managed enterprise.”

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Author:Buzz Aldrin

“It is a game of chess with this city. We'll have to see how it is going to play out. The city goes back and forth trying to figure out what programs to cut and what they have funding for. What I would love to see is for the city to step up and run the rink 10 months out of the year so kids can play in the summer and we can have camps here in Glenwood.”

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Author:Bill Vaughan

“People want leadership, Mr. President, and in the absence of genuine leadership, they'll listen to anyone who steps up to the microphone. They want leadership. They're so thirsty for it they'll crawl through the desert toward a mirage, and when they discover there's no water, they'll drink the sand.”

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Author:Michael J. Fox

“I didn't have to step up into a leadership role, ... I just had to be there and help out where I could. But this year I had to be more of the man.”

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Author:Landon Donovan

“Im very proud that our country still produces people like my son, who choose the path less traveled; that knowingly step up to serve, even though our country is tearing itself apart with things like political machinations.”

People Stills Country Political Steps Path Produce Son Proud Our Country My Son Traveled Step Up

Author:Steve Daines

“I think that any time you're able to get a guy like Carmelo Anthony to be on your team, you're going to be a step up.”

Thinking Able Guy Steps Team Step Up

Author:Earl Monroe

“Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their "critical thinking."”

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Author:David Harsanyi

“I am totally against the war but violence is part of mankind and it's going to happen, but as musicians I think we've got to step up and say 'come on'.”

Thinking War Happens Steps Violence Mankind Musician Step Up

Author:Elton John

“Most kids will not volunteer to eat veggies. At times you must step up to the plate and enforce the rule of authority as a parent.”

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Author:Lee Haney

“Man is at his furthest remove from the animal as a child, his intellect most human. With his fifteenth year and puberty he comes astep closer to the animal; with the sense of possessions of his thirties (the median line between laziness and greediness), still another step. In his sixtieth year of life he frequently loses his modesty as well, then the septuagenarian steps up to us as a completely unmasked beast: one need only look at the eyes and the teeth.”

“Everyone asks about gold. This is the irony: just as Jim Grant tells us (correctly) that we all have faith-based paper currencies backed by nothing, it is equally fair to say that gold is a faith-based metal. It pays no dividend, cannot be eaten, and is mostly used for nothing more useful than jewelry. I would say that anything of which 75% sits idly and expensively in bank vaults is, as a measure of value, only one step up from the Polynesian islands that attached value to certain well-known large rocks that were traded.”

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Author:Jeremy Grantham

“If Americans are working harder than ever earning less than they once did, our government and our leaders should step up, offer a plan, fix what's wrong -- or they should step aside, the recovery has been everywhere but in the family paychecks. The American Dream has become a mirage for far too many.”

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Author:Jeb Bush

“When you are surrounded by people who are much better than you, you have two choices: You can sh*t the bed, and the performance can go to hell. Or you can step up and rise to the occasion.”

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Author:John Cena

“How could you not learn from Cher with her work ethic and the way she commands attention when she walks into a room, but exudes such peaceful tranquility and love for everyone. She just makes you feel warm and welcome and more inspired to do a better job because you want to step up to the plate.”

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Author:Christina Aguilera

“When you are in your 20s and you're not married with kids, you're having fun. But when you're in your 30s and you're not married and don't have kids, you begin to develop a Peter Pan complex. As you grow older, you have more responsibilities and you have to step up to them.”

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Author:Ben Affleck

“If you become a master of meaning, you become a master of your life. Two people can have the same experience. One person decides that because of that experience his or her life is over, while the other decides that God has challenged him or her to step up, face the challenge, and become more than he or she ever was before.”

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Author:Tony Robbins

“It's always positive to hear how many people are willing to step up - whether it is the employment community, mental health community, or medical community.”

People Community Steps Willing Mental Health Medical Employment Step Up

Author:Michelle Obama

“Every person that steps up and commits to social change helps solidify the black movement cause. It is not easy for those who fill in the leader role.”

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Author:Assata Shakur

“I would just like to see hip-hop journalism in general take a step up and match the artistry. There have been great writers in music who are the caliber of artist as a writer as the people that they're covering.”

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Author:Brother Ali

“You get yourself out there and you work hard, and you hope that word of mouth carries and one day somebody will actually step up to the plate and say, 'I believe that you can do this.'”

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Author:Charlize Theron

“As the leader of the Republicans what I'm telling that we elected the president to be president. It's time for him to step up to the plate and lead us in the direction of reducing our excessive spending.”

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Author:Mitch McConnell

“If we knock on the door until it opens, not taking no for an answer, our lives will be transformed as we step up into a higher awareness.”

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Author:James Redfield

“But will this attention to poverty be sustained or transient? That depends on our leaders - whether we step up and sustain our moral commitment as the country's conscience would naturally want us to do.”

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Author:John Edward

“Do what you need to do, so that you can do what you want to do. Success and convenience do not go together. You have what it takes to be successful, so you have to step up your game and make room for it.”

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Author:Les Brown

“If I have something to apologize, I want to be the first one to step up and make that apology. I don't want anyone to broker it for me. I don't want anyone to take the hit for me. If I have anything to apologize for, I'm only human. I'm prone to making mistakes.”

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Author:Michelle Shocked

“We're striving to stay in the arenas. We [Papa Roach] had just little things that just took our show a step up and were so stoked for that.”

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Author:Tony Palermo

“It doesn't happen often, it's what you dream and hope for. We are happy, but we want to make sure these changes have teeth. What we want to get across most is that this is a real opportunity for the military. They can step up and be a leader on misogyny and gender issues.”

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Author:Amy Ziering

“I wouldn't even feel sorry for us if I was going against us. I know teams are licking their chops. The Bulls or Milwaukee, they're excited. Even though somebody is hurt they're still excited because they feel like we're a man down and we might not be as strong, but we're confident here. We got the players to still make something special happen. Guys just have to step up as a unit.”

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Author:Tristan Thompson

“It's a group of guys that put their mind to going out and playing great football. Everybody that needed to step up, stepped up. Everybody that needed to make a play, made a play and that's what it's all about.”

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Author:Kurt Warner

“We will step up support for the non-commodity export sector, working more closely with potential buyers of Russian goods. We do have something to offer in the IT sphere, the nuclear power industry, aircraft manufacturing, the aerospace industry and a number of other sectors”

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Author:Dmitry Medvedev

“There's no home team in tennis, no built-in fan base, so the players have to step up and do their fair share.”

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Author:Andy Roddick

“My guys look for me to step up in that magnitude and I take the challenge every time. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose, but you've got to have a guy that will take those shots and deal with the consequences.”

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Author:Chauncey Billups

“My journey has been a very slow build-up. Each year has been a step upward. I've never actually gone backward.”

Years Has Beens Steps Gone Journey Step Up My Journey

Author:Vijay Singh

“Anybody can be good when things are going good, but a real player steps up when things are going bad.”

Real Steps Player Be Good Step Up

Author:Daunte Culpepper

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