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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
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
It'd be really nice to wake up looking like, I don't know, Jake Gyllenhaal and think, 'Let's try this on for a day and see how it feels.'
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Typically, I'll wake up at 4:30 in the morning. It's just the continual jet lag residue, just weird sleeping hours.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could wake up six in the morning, go downstairs and record. I learned how to use ProTools and everything. Whenever I felt it, I could record.
- Sleep
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I can't sleep 'cause I can't get a melody or a beat out my head, so I just have to wake up and, like, record it on a voice note.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll do two gigs on a Saturday night until four o'clock in the morning, wake up, and do drag brunch on a Sunday, and then another party Sunday night. I definitely take what I do very seriously.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don't know where I am right away. I'll go to the window, and it doesn't help there either, especially if you're in an anonymous strip and it's the usual Victoria's Secret, Gap, Chili's, Applebee's.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
We only get 60 years, if we're really lucky, as adults on earth, and why not try to wake up every day and learn something and talk to people?
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I might wake up in the morning and go out for a six- to eight-mile run, and then in the afternoon, I might swim two or three kilometres. The next day, I'll mix it up and do a military circuit. I don't stick to a set programme.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020