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• Dogs are like their owners. If you get an uptight owner, you have an uptight dog. If you have an assertive owner, half drunk who thinks he owns the whole track, the dog will be the same. If you see that kind of person, he doesn't own a miniature Poodle.

  James R. Heath

  Dog, Thinking, Track

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• Just because we are back home, don't get comfortable. Have that same uptight feeling like it's just us against everyone.

  LeBron James

  Home, Nba Championships, Feelings

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• I would be constantly brought up on the carpet by these teachers who were brought up with Abstract Expressionism, saying, "You're too uptight, you're not expressing yourself, why don't you feel freer?" I said, "Well, I don't like that stuff. It means nothing to me."

  Paul Laffoley

  Teacher, Mean, Would Be

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• It`s great to be able to drive around and spy on people, which I do when I'm writing. People tell me the most personal things about their lives for no reason - on airplanes, everywhere I go. People just blurt out secrets. I'm not sure why. I think that they see in my films that nothing will make me uptight. I'm not going to judge them.

  John Waters

  Airplane, Writing, Thinking

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• The happiness we seek cannot be found through grasping, trying to hold on to things. It cannot be found through getting serious and uptight about wanting things to go in the direction we think will bring happiness. We are always taking hold of the wrong end of the stick. The point is that the happiness we seek is already here and it will be found through relaxation and letting go rather than through struggle.

  Pema Chodron

  Happiness, Letting Go, Struggle

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.115, Shambhala Publications

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• I've always sung in the shower. Now I make the stage a mental shower in order not to get too uptight and enjoy it.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Order, Stage, Showers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Stockholm is very, like, posh and uptight, and everything should be so luxurious and refurbished.

  Karin Dreijer Andersson

  Should, Posh, Stockholm

  "Fever Ray". Interview with Marc Hogan, pitchfork.com. March 30, 2009.

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• I know that some of the folks in the press are uptight about this [moving the press corps out of the West Wing ], and I understand. What we're - the only thing that's been discussed is whether or not the initial press conferences are going to be in that small press - and for the people listening to this that don't know this, that the press room that people see on TV is very, very tiny. Forty-nine people fit in that press room.

  Reince Priebus

  Moving, Wings, People

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I'm sorry, but chick fights are sexy. If you don't think so, you're either an uptight woman or a lying man.

  John Ridley

  Sexy, Sorry, Lying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm uptight in general, and it's hard for me to play in a situation where I'm not rehearsed or I feel like I'm not prepared. So it's always hard for me to come away from those and think it was the best thing I could do.

  Bill Orcutt

  Thinking, Play, Situation

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The Mayans were right, as it turns out, when they predicted the world would end in 2012. It was just a select world: the G.O.P. universe of arrogant, uptight, entitled, bossy, retrogressive white guys. [...] Instead of smallpox, plagues, drought and Conquistadors, the Republican decline will be traced to a stubborn refusal to adapt to a world where poor people and sick people and black people and brown people and female people and gay people count.

  Maureen Dowd

  Gay, White, Sick

  "A Lost Civilization". www.nytimes.com. December 8, 2012.

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• When [my father] reached his majority, he was the head of the family. Everybody depended upon him. He went into a very uptight appearance; he would wear Chesterfield coats to work, Homburg hats, really getting into the whole thing. He knew people like Oscar Levant. He loved New York. He wanted to live there.

  Paul Laffoley

  New York, Father, People

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• In my experience I haven't met too many uptight black people. I'm sure they're out there. Like I'm some big authority and I've lived in the inner city and ghetto.

  Paul Reubens

  Ghetto, Cities, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that if you have to work very hard at dressing up and it makes you nervous or uptight, then you won't look very well because you won't be comfortable. I think it's much better to be comfortable and happy than well dressed.

  Iris Apfel

  Thinking, Dressing Up, Looks

  "INTERVIEW: Iris Apfel, Fashion Legends Never Cease". Interview with Roger Walker-Dack, www.thegayuk.com. August 14, 2015.

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• Diablo Cody wasn't writing a script about a 16-year girl that got an abortion. She was writing a script about a 16-year old girl that got pregnant, decided to have the baby and give it to a young yuppy uptight couple for adoption. That's what the movie is about.

  Ellen Page

  Girl, Baby, Couple

  "Juno's Ellen Page and Michael Cera". Roundtable Interview, movieweb.com. June 12, 2007.

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• My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.

  Iggy Pop

  People, Palaces, Audience

  Interview with Bret Gladstone, pitchfork.com. August 13, 2007.

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• We're going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It's the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.

  Brian Eno

  Thinking, Machines, Eras

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• I'm certainly not an uptight home owner.

  Drew Barrymore

  Home, Owners

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• The problem is that we live in an uptight country. Why don't we just laugh at ourselves? We are funny. Gays are funny. Straights are funny. Women are funny. Men are funny. We are all funny, and we all do funny things. Let's laugh about it.

  Bob Newhart

  Country, Laughter, Gay

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• Why be uptight about bowel movements and sex? We all have sex. We all have penises -- except for those of us who have vaginas.

  Howard Stern

  Sex, Movement, Bowel Movements

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• I think that if you have to work very hard at dressing up and it makes you nervous or uptight, then you won't look very well because you won't be comfortable. I think it's much better to be comfortable and happy than well dressed, don't you?

  Iris Apfel

  Thinking, Dressing Up, Looks

  "Icon fashion legend Iris Apfel 96 years old and going strong". Queerguru Interview, queerguru.com. 2015.

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• Christians and non-Christians have something in common. Were both uptight about evangelism.

  Rebecca Pippert

  Christian, Religion, Common

  Rebecca Manley Pippert (1979). “Out of the Saltshaker & Into the World: Evangelism as a Way of Life”

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• Baby, everything is alright, uptight, out of sight.

  Stevie Wonder

  Baby, Sight, Expression

  Song: Uptight

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• In general, I've found female protagonists more intriguing to work with than males. I cherish women and have always preferred their company, reveling in their perfumes, their contours, their finer-grained sensibilities, lunar intuitions, nurturing instincts and relatively unfettered emotions--although I'm certainly not unaware that there are plenty of neurotic, uptight, stupid women in the world.

  Tom Robbins

  Stupid, Intuition, Males

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• Jesus is the best clue we have as to what God is like and He is consistently gracious and merciful, especially to those who are failures. He is harsh to uptight, judgmental people, but merciful and gracious to the failures. He seems to draw out the smallest kernel of faith in each person that He's with. So, I presume that that's the way God is going to judge humanity.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, People, Judging

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