- Broken
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- Nov 07, 2020
Up Quotes
Growing up, getting through, adding up.
This set of up quotes centers on growing up in a tough neighborhood and the resilience that experience builds over time. One entry treats that upbringing as proof of a law-abiding life that followed. Related themes continue in our Hope quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
We didn't have a television, so I grew up with books. This isn't to suggest I'm an intellectual, but I do read a lot because part of acting is an exploration of literature.
- Excellence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Federal employees are not rewarded for performance or excellence or results but, rather, for showing up, and often times, they don't even do that.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trade deficit always goes up when the economy is strong and plummets when the economy sinks, as it did during both the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession of 2008-09.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didn't know any arty types.
- Kingdom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up Dalgety Bay, in the Kingdom of Fife, in a 1970s bungalow. We moved there when I was nine and stayed for about six years.
- Hospital
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in L.A. County Hospital, but I grew up in Pasadena. I married my 8th grade sweetheart, Marcia.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been very successful at selling my things, but I've also been getting up at 4 in the morning for 40 years.
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020
Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico, and this is certainly not what the Mexican workers signed up for.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been accused of being unambitious, but what I do takes up every minute. I'm executive producer, I'm a writer and the host.
- I Was Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in New York and grew up on a ranch.
- Climbed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I climbed up this business.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life has a way of creeping up on us.
- Shine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Show up, shut up, and shine.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020