- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rise Quotes
What lifts us, and what won't stay down.
A quieter image opens this page - rising at dawn to pick berries instead of arguing a point - paired with a grander claim about art's role in lifting up mankind. Related pages include Great.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are unhappy with the direction of the country - we saw that with the rise of the Tea Party; we saw that when we had thousands of people at the statehouse in Concord, New Hampshire, protesting the government with more taxes and more spending.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the world's nations can set aside their petty bickering over religion, politics, and territory, certainly I can 'get that Olympic Spirit' and rise above my prejudices.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
In '82 and '83, that was the rise of the VCR. Every Friday, my brother and I would go to Crazy Eddie's - which was a video store in Manhattan - and rent five horror movies. And that's basically what we did, basically, for three years. Becoming social misfits.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how many plots we uncover and disrupt, no matter how many terrorist organizations we degrade or destroy, another individual or group will rise to take their place.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't understand why, to rise to the level of being president of my country, one has to be a monster. I used to say that George Bush was defiling the Oval Office, but it's been held by a long line of monsters. We don't have to support our administrations to love our country.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the people of America do not rise up, take ownership of our country, we're going to lose it forever.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our light-speed, globally connected economy has led to the rise of a new super-elite that consists, to a notable degree, of first- and second-generation wealth.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The irony of the political rise of the plutocrats is that, like Venice's oligarchs, they threaten the system that created them.
- Fame
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most actors come from the streets, and their rise to fame is guided by a natural anger. It was harder to find that rage coming from a gentle background.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just keep praying for Joan to get her power back. To resolve her problems and rise to the top. To fight back!
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
For awhile there, I kind of hit the plateau. Anytime you do that as an artist, one of two things can happen... you're either going to start to fall back off, or you're gonna start to rise.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to get a rise out of my mom with what I wear - I always go for the tallest heels or something super trendy.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was an enormous revival of pulp fiction that started in the '60s and continued into the '70s, which in large part gave rise to things like 'Star Wars' and 'Indiana Jones,' among others. But I developed an appetite for the original stuff at the time, and that appetite has never really abated.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020