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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.”

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Book:The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

Source: The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

“The first thing I think about when I wake up most mornings is the fact that I'm tired. I have been tired for decades. I am tired in the morning and I am tired while becalmed in the slough of the afternoon, and I am tired in the evening, except right when I try to go to sleep.”

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Author:Susan Orlean

“I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.”

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Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?”

Ifs Persons Different Literature Wake Up If I Could Different Place Different Times Fight Club Novel

Book:Fight Club: A Novel

Source: Fight Club: A Novel

“I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being?”

Thinking Morning Wake Up Hey Just Being Being There

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.”

Kind Ideas Dream Wake Up New Ideas

Author:Dolly Parton

“The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action.”

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Author:Rand Paul

“You know you're living right when you wake up, brush your hair - and confetti falls out!”

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Author:Katy Perry

“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.”

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Author:Rick Perry

“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.”

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Author:Tyler Perry

“Every day after I wake up, I think, 'Wait... this can't be real; I'm still going to wake up.'”

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Author:Michael Phelps

“When I wake up in the morning, I just can't get started until I've had that first, piping hot pot of coffee. Oh, I've tried other enemas.”

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Author:Emo Philips

“It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up.”

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Author:Michael Pitt

“To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.”

“The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?”

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Author:J. B. Priestley

“Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.”

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Author:Pliny the Elder

“Since I was 20 years old, I've been a kind of corporation. I'd wake up in the morning and my job was to be 'Bonnie Raitt' in capital letters.”

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Author:Bonnie Raitt

“Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'.”

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Author:Joan Rivers

“You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid.”

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Author:Sugar Ray Robinson

“I have nightmares that I'm going to wake up, and everyone's driving a Prius and living in a condo, and we're all getting health insurance.”

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Author:Kid Rock

“And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, 'It could be worse.' It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“I'm living a dream I never want to wake up from.”

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Author:Cristiano Ronaldo

“I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.”

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Author:Karl Rove

“It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art.”

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Author:Jerry Saltz

“I go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.”

Thinking Kids Sleep Wake Up Going To Sleep Spoiled Being Spoiled

Author:Adam Sandler

“I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.”

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Author:Carlos Santana

“The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual.”

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Author:George Saunders

“You cry and you scream and you stomp your feet and you shout. You say, 'You know what? I'm giving up, I don't care.' And then you go to bed and you wake up and it's a brand new day, and you pick yourself back up again.”

“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.”

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Book: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

Source: 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

“If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you're going to get, you become a more successful person. In other words, if you want to make money, you have to help someone else make money.”

Ifs Want Giving Persons Helping Successful Wake Up What You Want Making Money Versus Successful Person Deciding What You Want

Author:Russell Simmons

“Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up?”

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Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“Generally, I wake up, honestly it's creepy, but I wake up around 4:20.”

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Author:Kevin Smith

“When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.”

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Author:Patti Smith

“I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.”

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Author:Susan Sontag

“My problem is that my imagination won't turn off. I wake up so excited I can't eat breakfast. I've never run out of energy. It's not like OPEC oil; I don't worry about a premium going on my energy. It's just always been there. I got it from my mom.”

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Author:Steven Spielberg

“You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.”

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Author:Lewis Black

“Basically I wake up in the morning and I think everything's going to be great. I'm really kind of optimistic, and I look forward to a new day. I pick up 'The New York Times,' and I look at the front page and realize that once again I'm wrong. I start to fixate on stuff.”

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Author:Lewis Black

“I'm not one of those people who sits at dinner on their iPhone all night. I'm either working or I'm not. I've gone down that path where you sleep with your phone beside the bed and send an email just before you put your head down and check everything again when you wake up, and I don't like it.”

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Author:Curtis Stone

“I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.”

“Sometimes I wake up before dawn, and I love sitting up in the middle of the bed with all the lights off, pitch-black dark, and talking to the Father, with no interruptions and nothing that reminds me that there's anything in life but me and Him.”

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Author:Charles R. Swindoll

“This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.”

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Book:Map: Collected and Last Poems

Source: Map: Collected and Last Poems

“I just need green. I need to wake up and see grass and squirrels. I don't want to see skyscrapers.”

Want Needs Wake Up Green Grass Squirrels Skyscraper

Author:Andre Leon Talley

“If you're married, and you have a wife, and you really love your wife, is it good enough to only say to your wife 'I love her' the day you get married? Or should you tell her every single day when you wake up and every opportunity? And that's how I feel about my relationship with Jesus Christ is that it is the most important thing in my life.”

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Author:Tim Tebow

“I have so many things to work on, and so many ways that I fail. But that's what grace is all about. and I constantly wake up every morning trying to get better, trying to improve, trying to walk closer to God.”

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Author:Tim Tebow

“It's not my fault that there is this gap between rich and poor, it is the fault of governments. I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter.”

Thinking World Want Different Government Able Mother Poor Rich Lucky Daughter Wake Up Faults My Daughter Gaps Rich And Poor Different Worlds So Lucky

Author:Emma Thompson

“I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.”

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Author:James Thurber

“I sleep with a light on in the bathroom so I can see where I'm at, because I wake up and have no clue!”

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Author:Carrie Underwood

“My attitude when I'm in Mexico is I wake up in the morning with nothing to do and I go to bed half done. I don't wear a watch. When I live down there, I do nothing according to time. I eat when I'm hungry and go to sleep when I'm tired.”

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Author:Jesse Ventura

“I wake up at about the same time every day. I sleep well and wake without an alarm clock.”

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Author:Donatella Versace