- 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
- Nov 07, 2020
I think about dying a lot, every time I fall asleep on a train or a plane I expect to wake up to a crash!
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wake up every morning with the worst anxiety. I don't know why. I have, like, a problem.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
- Question
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- Nov 07, 2020
The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What impact could it have? These are questions leaders I have spoken to have posed.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her colonial trade against foreign competitors.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to take Sharpies and draw on my pillowcases, and then go to sleep on them and wake up with red marker from the drool all on my face.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are so many people, FIFA or whatever, that can do something against this. They should wake up and do it. If there is a racism, those people should be banned from the stadium forever. They should not even enter the stadium anymore. Never again. That's the first thing they can do.
- Pen
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you wake up, instead of checking emails on your phone, or counting your retweets, pick up a pen and scratch a few sentences into a notebook.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
To wake up in England and have the newspaper on your front door with a headline that says, 'Ozzie's Beach Whale of a Daughter,' doesn't really do much for your self-esteem at all.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wake up around seven, and I give my daughter breakfast. I spend the first hour or two of her day with her.
- Different Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find motion, literally, is where ideas come from. It's almost like a built-in rhythm section. The contents of the songs are about change, and a lot of that stuff happens when you're on tour, and you wake up and you're in a different place and you start thinking about where you're going and where you've been.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are lots of scary things about getting older, but one of the biggest, I guess, is death itself. Especially in midlife, when we suddenly wake up to the fact we may have fewer years left than we have already lived.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020