Get Up Quotes - Page 10

• Directing comes closer than anything I’ve found yet to providing me with a good reason to get up in the morning that goes beyond just getting some money. Because all the money does is buy the bed. Getting out of it is the problem.

  Shane Black

  Morning, Bed, Doe

  Biography/Personal, www.imdb.com.

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• I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.

  Jackson Browne

  Morning, Lying, Book

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• I'm convinced that we Black women possess a special indestructible strength that allows us to not only get down, but to get up, to get through, and to get over.

  Janet Jackson

  Inspirational, Positive, Strength

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• I am focused on what needs to be done for the people of Israel. Period. I do not pity myself and I do not pat myself on the shoulder. I get up in the morning full of energy to fulfill my mission.

  Ehud Olmert

  Morning, Israel, People

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• I get up about four times a night and go back to sleep, or not. Then I swill tea around 8 a.m. I answer e-mail, while I stall thinking about whatever scares me.

  Jenny Holzer

  Sleep, Thinking, Night

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• Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Moving, Mind, Couches

  “Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations - ‘Brooklyn’” by Caroline Framke, www.avclub.com. November 6, 2012.

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• It's hard to get up at 6am when you're wearing silk pyjamas.

  Marvin Hagler

  Boxing, Silk, Hard

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• A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.

  Chinua Achebe

  Men, Yesterday, Thought Provoking

  Chinua Achebe (1988). “A Man of the People”, p.135, Heinemann

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• It's hard being Thom Yorke. You have to get up every morning and look at that face and not shoot at it with a gun.

  Thom Yorke

  Morning, Gun, Looks

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• No one wants to get up at 4 and run when it's pitch-dark, but it has to be done. The only reason i do it so early is because i believe the other guy isn't doing it and that gives me a little edge

  Mike Tyson

  Running, Believe, Dark

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• I was on my face. I heard the count from one to 10. I kept telling myself that I had to get up, but I couldn't move. I couldn't make myself move. It was the strangest feeling.

  Rocky Marciano

  Moving, Feelings, Faces

  "Remembering the Brockton Blockbuster" by Thomas Hauser, www.nysun.com. September 14, 2005.

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• It's better to oversleep and miss the boat than get up early and sink.

  Elizabeth Jane Howard

  Up Early, Missing, Boat

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• You get up early in the morning and you work all day. That’s the only secret.

  Philip Glass

  Morning, Up Early, Secret

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• I always get up for every game, but this game is especially big. It's a do-or-die thing. This could be (decide) whoever wins the regular-season championship.

  Rajon Rondo

  Winning, Games, Championship

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• We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock.

  Dave Allen

  Running, Sleep, Giving

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• Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.

  Jelly Roll Morton

  Music, Hurt, Piano

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• It's a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.

  Walter Winchell

  Summer, Chairs, Ifs

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• In winter I get up at night
  And dress by yellow candle-light.
  In summer quite the other way
  I have to go to bed by day.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Summer, Winter, Night

  A Child's Garden of Verses "Bed in Summer" l. 1 (1885)

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• Given a choice between hearing my daughter say "I'm pregnant" or "I used a condom", most mothers would get up in the middle of the night and buy them herself.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Mother, Daughter, Witty

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• In life, it's not the genetic guy who wins or the guy with the most potential who wins; it's the person with the greatest perseverance who wins. Always be willing to get up and go at it again and again. That's the guy who has his hands raised later in life. That's the guy you guys need to be.

  Greg Plitt

  Motivational, Perseverance, Winning

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• Would you kick an opponent when he was down? Yes, if I thought he might get up.

  Edmund Rouse

  Opponents, Might, Kick Ass

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• I think some of the most celebrated moments in human achievement should be those times when everything is going against a person and they are down in the dumps but they simply choose to get up. That's real greatness!

  Ryan Hall

  Running, Real, Greatness

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• You were born to run. Maybe not that fast, maybe not that far, maybe not as efficiently as others. But to get up and move, to fire up that entire energy-producing, oxygen-delivering, bone-strengthening process we call running.

  Florence Griffith Joyner

  Running, Moving, Oxygen

  Florence Griffith Joyner, John Hanc (1999). “Running For Dummies”, For Dummies

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• You have to go through cycles of extreme poverty and suffering for a while; they are used to that...They get up early, run hard, rest drink tea, get out and run hard again. Wehn Simon Dirorie gets up at 4 a.m. - I'm dedicated, but I'm not that dedicated.

  Keith Brantly

  Running, Up Early, Tea

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• Get going. Get up and walk if you have to, but finish the damned race.

  Ron Hill

  Motivational, Running, Athlete

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