- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wake Up Quotes
Reflections on mornings, routines, and the reasons we rise.
This set ranges from disciplined sleep schedules and early rising to more reflective moments — mourning a loss, noticing music from the first hour of the day, or realizing an activist's path chose itself. Pair it with Day quotes for more on how people frame their daily rhythm.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Something is wrong with me - no matter how late I go to sleep, I still wake up really early.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
When somebody gives up their friends and everything they do just to be with a person, they wake up miserable one day. They're denying themselves for no real reason other than they think that's the thing to do.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
We take things for granted, and because we wake up every day, you start talking about what you're going to do next week. I said, 'Who told you you would be here next week?'
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wake up sometimes, and I have this limp, and I'm, like, What if someone chases me, and it's on a bad-knee day? I need to be able to get away.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just want to get paid to lay down, wake up when I want to wake up, go to sleep when I want to go to sleep, and my money just be there. I just want to make the most doing the least.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a guy who needs to drink coffee or anything to get myself going in the morning. I wake up, and I'm full of energy.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020