Up Early Quotes - Page 3

• The habit of getting up early, which I had formed when the children were young, now became my choice. I am not very bright or very witty or very inventive after the sun goes down.

  Toni Morrison

  Witty, Children, Writing

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• Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'

  Joey Adams

  Success, Congratulations, Oil

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• I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Dream, Morning

  "What Haruki Murakami talks about". Interview with Heidi Benson, www.sfgate.com. October 26, 2008.

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• I love the idea of getting up early on Sundays and walking to the market to pick up fresh fruits and vegetables. It's a good way to start my day, and it makes me feel like I've accomplished something before other people are even awake.

  Mandy Moore

  Sunday, Vegetables, Ideas

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• Everyone wants to be a movie star or a model, to be in the papers, but few realise just what hard work it is, getting up early, and so on.

  Helen Mirren

  Stars, Hard Work, Paper

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• My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.

  Magic Johnson

  Basketball, Men, Keys

  "Magic Johnson pushes HIV awareness". Interview with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I'd get ready by myself. I'd set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me up.

  Janet Jackson

  Morning, Children, School

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• I don't want to sound like an old grandmother but actually it's quite nice when you get up early and then, by the time it gets to 10am, you're quite perky and already quite switched on.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Nice, Grandmother, Want

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• I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I'll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I'm an artist too.

  Jimmy Carter

  Morning, Book, Tired

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• I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter's kindergarten class.

  Tucker Carlson

  Daughter, Mother, Morning

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• Get up early and go to the local produce markets. In Latin America and Asia, those are usually great places to find delicious food stalls serving cheap, authentic and fresh specialties.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Latin, America, Asia

  "Your Interview: Anthony Bourdain". CBC News.ca reader questions, www.cbc.ca. September 8, 2010.

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• On the off chance that you have children, don't clean up at all. As children, my brother and sister and I loved waking up early and playing cocktail party with the leftover debris

  Amy Sedaris

  Brother, Children, Women

  "Refined meets irreverent". Interview with Craig Nakano, articles.latimes.com. November 09, 2006.

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• I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.

  Al McGuire

  Leadership, Sports, Zero

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• I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, picture-hanging man. I don't care if he takes prescription drugs for cholesterol or hair loss.

  Mindy Kaling

  Loss, Men, Hair

  "The Office's Mindy Kaling on Why You Need a Man, Not a Boy" by Mindy Kaling, www.glamour.com. October 3, 2011.

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• People would ask me, 'Is he as funny at home as he is in the movies?' ... I would have to answer, 'Well, he can be funny. But he is also very serious. He has insomnia and if we him up early, he would bawl the hell out of me'.

  Arthur Marx

  Home, Insomnia, People

  "The one, the only Groucho on PBS" by Paul Vercammen, www.cnn.com. March 13, 2001.

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• At times I think the truest image of God today is a black inner-city grandmother in the United States or a mother of the disappeared in Argentina or the women who wake up early to make tortillas in refugee camps. They all weep for their children, and in their compassionate tears arises the political action that changes the world. The mothers show us that it is the experience of touching the pain of others that is the key to change.

  Jim Wallis

  Mother, Children, Pain

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• anyone know where Kell is?" "Sleeping," Vin said. "He came in late last night, and hasn't gotten up yet." Ham grunted, taking a bite of baywrap. "Dox?" "In his room on the third floor," Vin said. "He got up early, came down to get something to eat, and went back upstairs." ... Ham raised an eyebrow. "You always keep track of where everyone is like that?" "Yes.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Sleep, Night, Eyebrows

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• Work hard, stay positive, and get up early.
  It's the best part of the day.

  George Allen

  Positive, Hard Work, Get Up

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• The irresponsible mother helped explain bella's maturity. She'd had to grow up early, to become the caretaker. That's why she didn't like being cared for- she felt it was her job.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Mother, Jobs, Growing Up

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• Some people complain there are too many people on earth, Some people complain about secret societies, Some people accuse others of not being able to wake up early. Almost all people complain about something.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  People, Secret, Complaining

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• So asking you to take a moonlit walk with me, that would totally not work?" "What?" Again that glare. "Go away. Stop being an idiot. I don't even know you." "You're healing my little brother Bowie." "Yeah, that doesn't make us friends, kid." "So no moonlight." "Are you retarded?" "Sunrise? I could get up early." "Go away." "Sunset tomorrow?" -Sanjit & Lana

  Michael Grant

  Brother, Healing, Sunset

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• So I’m into men now, even though they can be frightening. I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, non-Velcro-shoe-wearing man.

  Mindy Kaling

  Men, Shoes, Wake Up

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.180, Crown/Archetype

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• A farmer once told me one of the greatest luxuries of his life was to wake up early only to go back to sleep again.

  James Herriot

  Sleep, Luxury, Wake Up

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• They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.

  Oscar Wilde

  Thinking, Bed, Littles

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.315, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I like getting up early. I get up around five.

  Marilu Henner

  Get Up, Five

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