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• I was neither doing these people nor myself a favor by showing up when my heart wasn't in it. There were not getting the real me, the whole me, the true me.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Real, Heart, People

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• I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.

  Frances Farmer

  Dirty, Night, Hands

  "God Dies". Essay by Frances Farmer, 1931.

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• The forces of immorality and Marxism and evil count on one thing: Us not showing up. And often, they're justified in that. And I think if you look at some of the things that have happened this year with the Freedom Agenda, it should encourage you, that when you show up, we actually win.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Winning, Thinking

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• Ed Woolard, his mentor on the Apple board, pressed Jobs for more than two years to drop the interim in front of his CEO title. Not only was Jobs refusing to commit himself, but he was baffling everyone by taking only $1 a year in pay and no stock options. I make 50 cents for showing up, he liked to joke, and the other 50 cents is based on performance.

  Walter Isaacson

  Jobs, Two, Apples

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• I got this big fear of doing smoking jokes in my act and showing up five years from now goin' [puts mic to his neck and speaks as if he had a mechanical larynx] 'good evening everybody, remember me, smoking's bad. [puts cigarette to neck and mimics smoking it] Eeww. You ever seen somebody do that? I've seen someone do that. Let me tell you something — if you're smoking out of a hole in your neck [mimics it again] I'd think about quitting. And that's just me, ya know.

  Bill Hicks

  Thinking, Years, Smoking

  "Sane Man". Stand-up show, 1989.

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• I could croak with no warning, and the only tragedy anyone would experience would be showing up on the last day of my estate sale simply to discover that all remaining items had copious amounts of dog hair on them.

  Laurie Notaro

  Dog, Hair, Tragedy

  Laurie Notaro (2011). “It Looked Different on the Model: Epic Tales of Impending Shame and Infamy”, p.64, Villard

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• That's your friend. My husband is my best friend. He's not the mirror that holds up my flaws. He's just the guy who's like, 'I think you're terrific'... It's just simple, showing up for each other.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Husband, Thinking, Simple

  "Elizabeth Gilbert Explains What Everyone Gets Wrong About ‘Soul Mates’", www.huffingtonpost.com. October 11, 2014.

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• Life is a series of family photos in which eventually you stop showing up.

  Robert Breault

  Life Is, Family Photo, Series

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• It's great to know you've earned your place and to know that you are right for the role because my biggest fear is being offered something and showing up on set and doing one day and everyone going, "Oh geez, oh no, this isn't, she isn't.." and feeling that way myself.

  Olivia Wilde

  Feelings, One Day, Roles

  Source: collider.com

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• When I was on Broadway, people would really just recognize me around the theater. When you're showing up on commercials and posters, the scope of people recognizing you gets a little wider.

  Dan Fogler

  People, Broadway, Littles

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• I want to be Jacques Pepin. I want to have a nice 50-, 60-year career. I want to be on PBS when I'm 70-something, still kicking it, having a great time, showing up in Aspen to sign cookbooks. I just want to have a nice, big, long career.

  Tyler Florence

  Nice, Years, Careers

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• Any image I have, it's just what I do, but it comes off as being very pretentious. When you're a bit in the public astigmatism, anything you do seems like you did it so somebody would see you do it, like showing up at the right parties.

  Tom Waits

  Party, Like You, Pretentious

  "Tom Waits: 'I'm a night-owl reporter' - a classic interview from the vaults". Interview with Richard Cromelin, www.theguardian.com. August 7, 2012.

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• Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works. So they literally have no habit of showing up on Monday. They have no habit of staying all day. They have no habit of 'I do this and you give me cash' unless it's illegal.

  Newt Gingrich

  Monday, Children, Poor Neighborhoods

  "Is There Truth In Gingrich's Remarks On The Poor?". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. December 7, 2011.

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• I've dated some very enthusiastic, attractive people and some very unenthusiastic, less attractive people. I see no correlation. But female friends of mine who have dated male public figures have found that is the case. They say male models are terrible in bed, because they feel like just showing up is all the effort they need to make.

  Moby

  People, Effort, Bed

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• I stopped going to mass, and boy, it was painful for me, and it was certainly painful for my family, but I just couldn't ratify their behavior and their decisions anymore by showing up on Sundays.

  Anna Quindlen

  Sunday, Boys, Decision

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My daughter takes pride in showing up with stuff that other kids envy or are freaked out by, so I send her to school with grilled octopus.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Daughter, School, Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When you have an unconditional love of Life, then you love Life just the way it is showing up, right here, right now. This is only possible when you are "seeing the perfection."

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Love Life, Unconditional Love, Perfection

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Mar 07, 2017

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• I was into the music, but the idea of showing up places on time or having to tell people when you're not going to be somewhere - that just didn't even cross my mind.

  David Pajo

  Ideas, People, Mind

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think a lot of us are looking for the same thing. I feel very lucky to have a definitive moment where I know everything shifted in me, and it was the moment I read that quote. Because I thought, A. That's everything I know about vulnerability. It's not winning, it's not losing, it's showing up and being seen. B. That's who I want to be.

  Brené Brown

  Thinking, Winning, Lucky

  "Brené Brown On Why Courage, Vulnerability And Authenticity Have To Be Practiced". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 25, 2013.

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• If the Republicans embrace these great people that are showing up, the Republicans are going to have a massive victory. It's not going to be a Mitt Romney slaughter, because he was such a bad candidate.

  Donald Trump

  People, Victory, Republican

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I'd entirely forgotten about Pass The Distance, and then I went to Japan in 2000, and was asked to do interviews with all these journalists, who were showing up with bootlegs of this record, asking me to talk about it. I was astonished. It kind of gained momentum.

  David Toop

  Distance, Japan, Interviews

  "The Strange World Of... David Toop". Interview with Karen Shook, thequietus.com. June 28, 2016.

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• For me, just showing up for the traveling and writing gave me the power to overcome my fear of fear.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Writing, Overcoming

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• With the passion and the vision of the Berners [Sanders] coming into the Greens - we call it berning green - and the events that I'm going to that are being created around the country right now, it's the Bernie folks who are showing up in huge numbers along with the traditional Green. It's very powerful.

  Jill Stein

  Country, Powerful, Passion

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• As I was saying, half a democracy is showing up and people have got not only to agree with this agenda, some of these third parties listeners, they've got to show up.

  Ralph Nader

  Party, People, Democracy

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• People have got to show up, showing up at meetings, rallies, marches, City Council, courtrooms. You've got to show up.

  Ralph Nader

  Cities, People, March

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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