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Up To You Quotes (page 71)

You do admit that, if wealth was divided up equally, in a few years there would be rich and poor again just the same. The hard-working man would come to the top, the wastrel sink to the bottom.- Every one admits that.- Your Socialists don't.- My Socialists do. Yours mayn't; but I strongly suspect yours of being not Socialists, but ninepins, which you have constructed for your own amusement. I can't imagine any living creature who would bowl over quite so easily. E. M. Forster
Paulo Coelho quote: "you would have to give up all else, I alone would expect you..."
you would have to give up all else, I alone would expect you to be your sole and exclusive standard Paulo Coelho
Oscar Peterson quote: "You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know..."
You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz. Oscar Peterson
You would give up your career if you lost your voice for good, or if the impresarios stopped calling, or the audiences stopped coming. But as long as those things are there, I don't plan to stop. There is nothing that makes me feel better than to be with my public. Celia Cruz
You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no. Ann Patchett
To be physically fit is just a small aspect. You can be a beautiful physical specimen, but you're empty as far as what it takes to be a person, and that shows up real fast. Lee Haney
You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing. Patsy Cline
You get built up and put on a pedestal and then people want to bring you down. It can be hurtful. Some people try to make me look bad or not a nice person but it's completely false. Avril Lavigne
You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way. Al Kaline
Saul Bellow quote: "You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of..."
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. Saul Bellow
...To be honest, I'd be the last person who should be doling out gardeinng advice. I don't have the patience for growing things. Yes, I realize there's nothing quite as satisfying as eating food that you've pulled up from the ground and that's why, at the height of the planting season, I bury cans of tomato soup in my backyard and dig them up in late spring. Ellen DeGeneres
Toni Morrison quote: "You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down."
You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down. Toni Morrison
You may, perhaps, have wondered why I never chose you as a prefect? I must cofess...that I rather thought...you had enough reponsibility to be going on with." Harry looked up at him and saw a tear trickling down Dumbledore's face into his long silver beard. J. K. Rowling
To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are. Into the smallest thing you do. So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor. Because it blooms up above. Fernando Pessoa
You don't just have people who wake up in the morning and say, "What evil things can I do today, because I'm Mr. Evil?" People do things for what they think are justified reasons. Everybody is the hero of their own story, and you have to keep that in mind. If you read a lot of history, as I do, even the worst and most monstrous people thought they were the good guys. We're all very tangled knots. George R. R. Martin

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