Straight Up Quotes

• I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.

  Tupac Shakur

  Blood, People, Cold

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Shine it up real nice, turn it sideways, and stick it straight up your candy ass!

  Dwayne Johnson

  Real, Nice, Wrestling

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• What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?

  Bradford Cox

  Song, Writing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Speak the truth. Affirm your desire. Declare your intentions. Recall your successes. Your psyche will believe you. Your body will feel you. Your Soul will thank you for the straight-up communication.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Communication, Believe, Soul

  "Why Affirmations Can Mess You Right Up (And What to Say to Yourself Instead)" by Danielle LaPorte, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 29, 2012.

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• When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up.

  Brian Tracy

  Self Esteem, Believe, Acceptance

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• Your hair looks funny," Lief said, as soon as the Ugloids left. "It stands straight up!" No," said Nick, intensely irritated, "It's hanging straight down." Lief just gave him an upside-down shrug. "Up is down in China and you're part-Chinese.

  Neal Shusterman

  Hair, Chinese, Looks

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• you've got to burn straight up and down and then maybe sidewise for a while and have your guts scrambled by a bully and the demonic ladies, you've got to run along the edge of madness teetering, you've got to starve like a winter alleycat, you've go to live with the imbecility of at least a dozen cities, then maybe maybe maybe you might know where you are for a tiny blinking moment.

  Charles Bukowski

  Running, Winter, Cities

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• Usually, if you smile at them and show some interest in the toy, they will give it to you. That's a straight up Democrat move!

  Margaret Cho

  Smile, Moving, Giving

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• I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore oil wells. I wanted to kill all the fish I couldn't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted the whole world to hit bottom.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Beautiful, Beach, Rain

  "Fight Club". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, August 17, 1996.

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• All you have to do is speak up. Tell him straight up: "I need you here to protect and provide for us, to give us security in our lives, to help raise these children, to set an example for this boy, who needs to see what real men do, and for this girl, who needs to know what a real man is so she can find one of her own someday. I need you to be the head of this family." Lay it out like this, and your requirements will trump his mother's every time.

  Steve Harvey

  Girl, Mother, Children

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• The 2012 presidential campaign's turn away from the classic, straight-up, American election - where the candidate who gets the most votes nationwide wins - is another sad reminder of the extreme political polarization distorting today's politics. No one talks about a 50-state strategy for winning the presidency these days.

  Juan Williams

  Winning, Presidential, Political

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• I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn't have been born. Straight up.

  Lil Wayne

  People, Example, Needs

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• In 1977, I climbed a fairly difficult mountain for the first time, which was Mount McKinley, in Alaska. I climbed the so-called 'American Direct Route,' which was a route straight up to the top. I really enjoyed it. Through such experiences, I learned that mountaineering wasn't just about height. I found that different routes have different charms.

  Tamae Watanabe

  Alaska, Mountain, Different

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• I love movies that are just straight-up exploitation, but the ones that endure and the ones that last are the ones where the filmmakers put in that extra level of thought; after 25 years you put them on in front of an audience, and they'll respond to it and enjoy it.

  Eli Roth

  Years, Movie Love, Levels

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• Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Hate, Party, Men

  "Garofalo: Tea Party Goers Are Racists Who Hate Black President". "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, www.newsbusters.org. April 16, 2009.

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• When I began to cover songs for YouTube, they all tended to be in the super pop-genre.. as in, smash-hit songs. My writing process was heavily influenced by this - I went from a more heavy punk rock style to straight up sugary-sweet pop.

  Alex Goot

  Song, Sweet, Writing

  Interview with Kenneth Wong, www.popcultureonline.net. 2014.

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• You have to stay focused because a lot of things will break your confidence. But if you stay focused and want it bad enough you can achieve. I know that sounds like a PBS special, but it's true, straight up.

  Chamillionaire

  Pbs, Special, Sound

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Nobody is ever just a straight up protagonist or antagonist - everybody's morally ambiguous.

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Ambiguous, Protagonists, Antagonist

  "'American Horror Story' Star Cheyenne Jackson Reveals The Bloody Secrets Of 'Hotel'". Interview with Shaunna Murphy, www.mtv.com. October 7, 2015.

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• I know I haven't done it. I've done a couple of films, which were intended to go straight up. Thankfully they didn't. So now, I think that's what I need to do. I just need to grow as an actor.

  Max Irons

  Couple, Thinking, Needs

  "Max irons assumes his throne". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2013.

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• I'll be getting all types of crazy fans, from the hoodest dude to the straight-up dude in a business suit. It's dope. I have a crazy wide-range fan base.

  Danny Brown

  Crazy, Dope, Fans

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It was such a dramatic escalator that I was on. It was at 90 degrees. I was going straight up like a rocket ship into space. And I was thrown in with the sharks. They said sink or swim in this Cup deal.

  Kurt Busch

  Sharks, Space, Swim

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• Much to popular disbelief, horses walking around during the elections with their tails straight up in the air are not showing off their Bush/Quale buttons.

  Dan Quayle

  Horse, Air, Buttons

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• What was so great about Lost was that it came to the front door as a drama that was straight-up and really gave you the sci-fi underneath it all. It backed into sci-fi show, at least in my opinion. As soon as they got hooked, they were like, "Okay, I'm there."

  J.H. Wyman

  Drama, Doors, Opinion

  Source: collider.com

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• What I do will be straight up. Management knows that.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Management, Knows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Drag is like breaking the fourth wall in theater where we're letting you know straight up that this is an illusion. People are attracted to that because they know it's the truth of who they are also. No one is who they think they are. That's why people are attracted to drag.

  RuPaul

  Wall, Thinking, People

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