Uptown Quotes

• Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.

  Ruth Gordon

  Thinking, Hair, Talking

  Ruth Gordon (1949). “The Leading Lady: Play in Three Acts”

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• Uptown is for people who have already done something. Downtown is where they’re doing something now. I live uptown but I love downtown.

  Andy Warhol

  People, Downtown, Done

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• Uptown living, you've got to call 911. Where I am, I am 911.

  Phil Robertson

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• She looks uptown, but she ain't really. She's into football, she likes my chili.

  John Anderson

  Football, Profound, Looks

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• No matter what class you're from - uptown or downtown - when you're in the dancehall everyone's equal, and it's how you choose to express yourself that makes you stand out.

  Kreesha Turner

  Class, Downtown, Matter

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back.

  Andy Warhol

  Death, Believe, People

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• Act your age, not your shoe size.

  Prince

  Funny Happy Birthday, Shoes, Age

  "Kiss". Song by Prince Rogers Nelson, 1986.

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• Now where I come from We don't let society Tell us how it's supposed to be Our clothes, our hair We don't care It's all about being there Everybody's going Uptown That's where I wanna be Uptown Set your mind free.

  Prince

  Hair, Clothes, Mind

  Song: Uptown

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• I fell in love with it. Walking around just feels so cinematic. I find the aris- tocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York, it’s different—even uptown it’s really grand, and there’s no real segregation there. It’s all mixed up.

  Imogen Poots

  New York, Real, White

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• But in New York, it’s different—even uptown it’s really grand, and there’s no real segregation there. It’s all mixed up.

  Imogen Poots

  New York, Real, Different

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• Kati with an I was a New York Times Critics' Pick and I was really happy that it got a run uptown in Harlem at the Maysles Cinema, which is a great space but isn't necessarily the most well attended for a week-long screening.

  Robert Greene

  Running, New York, Space

  "Performance as Documentary: An Interview with Robert Greene (Web Exclusive)". Interview with Erik Luers, www.cineaste.com.

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• I was born and raised in New York City, Manhattan, uptown.

  Ana Ortiz

  New York, Cities, Manhattan

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• Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Years, Batteries, Downtown

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• When I came into office, people said, 'Billionaire? How do they live? What do they eat? How do they sleep?' Today, they see me on the subway coming uptown. A couple of people say hi, some people smile and nod. Some people just sleep. It's not an issue.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Smile, Couple, Sleep

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• I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.

  Loretta Lynn

  Country, Proud, Happened

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.11, Vintage

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• [I listen to] "Uptown Funk", Bruno Mars, sometimes even Nina Simone and Adele. Whatever comes up, whatever floats my boat, whatever makes me tap into something in me to just decompress - I listen to that.

  Viola Davis

  Mars, Sometimes, Boat

  Source: www.elle.com

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• And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz.

  Peter King

  Leadership, Zero, Moving

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• My 13-year-old daughter leaves the house at 7:15 every morning and takes a smelly city bus to school way uptown. It's like 8 degrees out, and it's dark and she's got this morning face and I send her out there to take a bus. Meanwhile, my driver is sitting in a toasty Mercedes that's going to take me to work once both kids are gone. I could send her in the Mercedes and then have it come back to get me, but I can't have my kid doing that. I can't do that to her. Me? I earned that f—ing Mercedes. You better f—ing believe it.

  Louis C. K.

  Daughter, Morning, Believe

  "Louis C.K.'s Crabby, Epic Love Letter to NYC: 'Everyone's Dealing with the Same S - ... Elbow to Elbow'" by Louis C.K., as told to Lacey Rose, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 8, 2015.

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• Let me tell you something 'bout these rich Uptown folk," said Cokie. "They got everything that money can buy, their bank accounts are fat, but they ain't happy. They ain't ever gone be happy. You know why? They soul broke. And money can't fix that, no sir.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Soul, Gone, Rich

  Ruta Sepetys (2013). “Out of The Easy”, p.54, Penguin

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• I go to Queens for queens to get the crew from Brooklyn,
  Make money in Manhattan and never been tooken.
  Go Uptown and the Bronx to boogie down,
  Get strong on the Island, recoup, and lay around.

  Rakim

  Strong, Queens, Rap

  Song: Juice

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• Look, did you ask me to come all the way uptown just so you could stare at me like I was something in a petri dish? Next time I'll send you a photo." "And I'll frame it and put it on my nightstand," said Jace.

  Cassandra Clare

  Way, Next, Looks

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.897, Simon and Schuster

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• I tell the players that they can't relive any day in their lives and that they can't relive the minutes of a game, so they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing, and if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.

  Al McGuire

  Sports, Moving, Successful

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• As we drove uptown, I spotted a Kmart on a corner,with its familiar red sign.I cleared my throat."Wait. Can we stop for a minute?" "What for?" "Just - I need a few things." He looked irritated, but pulled into a metered space. "We don't really have time to go shopping." I glared at him."yeah, excuse me for being so frivolous. You have your suitcase all packed already; I dont even have clean underwear.I'll be right back.

  L.A. Weatherly

  Clean Underwear, Kmart, Shopping

  L.A. Weatherly (2010). “Angel: The Angel Trilogy”, p.76, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• I think of shock as kind of an uptown form of surprise. Comedy is filled with surprise, so when I cross a line... I like to find out where the line might be and then cross it deliberately, and then make the audience happy about crossing the line with me.

  George Carlin

  Thinking, Crossing The Line, Lines

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• Now, some people do this for shock value. Shock is just another uptown word for surprise. Granted it has a different quality to it, but a joke is about surprising someone. I'm a great believer in context. You can joke about anything. I do like finding out where the line is drawn, deliberately crossing it and bringing some of them with me across the line, and having them be happy that I did.

  George Carlin

  People, Quality, Different

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