Wake Up Quotes - Page 10

• It's just that the churches have been sleeping for a long time. A lot of people argue that the churches are even dead. I don't believe they're dead, but they've been sleeping, but they, I hope, will wake up, and that's one of my tasks is to make sure they wake up as much as they do before I die.

  Cornel West

  Believe, Sleep, Long

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• The onset of adulthood is an organic, creeping process. No one wakes up one day and decides, 'Lo, on this day I shall forever put away childish things and begin clipping coupons to go to Wal-Mart.'

  David Carr

  Forever, One Day, Process

  David Carr (2012). “The Night of the Gun”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• I love to work. I know that sounds ridiculous to say because all people love to work, but I love the homework that goes into acting. I love figuring out different ways of playing a scene. I love the energy of being on set. I love not getting enough sleep because I have to wake up early in the morning.

  Amanda Schull

  Morning, Sleep, Up Early

  "Amanda Schull: Fate intervened with ‘Center Stage’". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. August 9, 2010.

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• Knowing that you are living in a dreamworld is very liberating, because it gives you the option of waking up.

  Srikumar Rao

  Knowing, Giving, Waking

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• Most of the time when something goes bad—a marriage, a war, a run of good luck—you don’t know it. It’s like in the cartoons, only less funny. You run off the cliff and just keep going—talking, listening to music, making plans, for years sometimes—except no announcer interrupts to say ‘Excuse me, collect call for Mr. Coyote’ to make you notice and make us laugh. You just wake up and fall.

  Mark Slouka

  Running, War, Fall

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• The world ... is full of people who never knew what hit 'em, their lives are over before they wake up.

  John Updike

  Life, People, Ems

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Is Rich”, p.232, Random House

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• The buddha-dharma does not invite us to dabble in abstract notions. Rather, the task it presents us with is to attend to what we actually experience, right in this moment. You don't have to look "over there." You don't have to figure anything out. You don't have to acquire anything. And you don't have to run off to Tibet, or Japan, or anywhere else. You wake up right here. In fact, you can only wake up right here. So you don't have to do the long search, the frantic chase, the painful quest. You're already right where you need to be.

  Steve Hagen

  Running, Buddhism, Japan

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• I'm sleeping like a baby, too. Every two hours, I wake up, screaming.

  Colin Powell

  Baby, Sleep, Two

  "The Tragedy of Colin Powell" by Fred Kaplan, www.slate.com. February 19, 2004.

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• And yet, I wake up every day to a sensation of pervading disgust and annoyance. I probably ought to carry around some kind of thermometer or other instrument, to keep checking that I am not falling prey to premature curmudgeonhood.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Fall, Kind, Prey

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays”, p.9, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I look at it this way: How much of the day are you awake? You think, "I've gotta get that dry cleaning, I gotta get this going, and this, and this, and this." And all of a sudden it's dinnertime. And then there's a moment of connection with your spouse or your friends. Then you read and go to bed. Wake up and then it's the same all over. You're not awake, you're not living, you're not experiencing. We start early medicating ourselves. We start kids early, on TV and video games and so on.

  Tim Allen

  Life, Kids, Thinking

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• Beast Mode doesnt make excuses. It doesnt complain. Whatever youre doing, go out there and get it done. Keep pushing. If I have a bad game, I think about what I have to do to return to form. Figure it out, go to sleep, and wake up a new man.

  Matt Kemp

  Sleep, Men, Thinking

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• I dreamed I was a soldier who could bring peace. Sooner or later, though, you always have to wake up.

  James Cameron

  Soldier, Sooner Or Later

  "Avatar". 2009.

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• Life actually is this mystery and gift. And every moment of it can be full of real radical joy and wakefulness. And for some reason in our most difficult times, we have the best chance to wake up. Many people will tell you that their divorce or illness or loss of job was the wake up call.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Jobs, Real, Divorce

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• Many people don't wake up. They fight against a difficult time, shut the window and become more bitter. Fortunately or unfortunately, however you see it, we are served up those opportunities over and over in our life. So if you've shut the window, don't worry, another hard time is going to come around the corner - to give you that chance all over again.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Fighting, Hard Times, Opportunity

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• I've been sleeping through my life Now I'm waking up And I want to stand in the sunshine I have never been ecstatic Had a flower but it never bloomed In the darkness of my wasted youth It was hiding in the shadows Learning to become invisible Uncover me

  Juliana Hatfield

  Flower, Sleep, Sunshine

  Song: Sunshine, Album: In Exile Deo, 2004

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• Any day you wake up, maybe you die.

  Robert Jordan

  Dies

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Knife of Dreams: Book Eleven of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.395, Macmillan

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• You ever wake up in the middle of the night because a couple of cats are clawing each other to death outside your window? That's what it's like listening to you speak.

  Tucker Max

  Couple, Cat, Night

  Tucker Max (2011). “I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell”, p.219, Citadel

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• It's bad to wake up and see a large cat in mid-leap from the rough vicinity of the ceiling.

  James Nicoll

  Cat, Ceilings, Leap

  Usenet article "Gay and straight", groups.google.com. February 14, 2003.

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• I really try to wake up with my music the same as I do with my life, and that is with no expectations. I just feel what I feel that day and follow it.

  Robin Thicke

  Expectations, Trying, Feels

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

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• I'm not the kind of writer that can wake up and say, "Okay, I'm gonna write a song today," and have that song be the kind I would want to record. The songs of mine that I end up liking are songs that come from real experience. They're like chapter titles in my life.

  Lyle Lovett

  Song, Real, Writing

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• The pleasure and sadness of youth is that the speed of its passing is never thought about; and so you say that you will do this or that in a year, in five years, only to wake up one morning to realize that what you thought was infinitely prolonged has ended.

  Derek Tangye

  Morning, Sadness, Years

  "The Way to Minack". Book by Derek Tangye, 1968.

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• Money spent on vegetative patients is money not spent on preventive care, such as flu shots and mammograms. Each night in an ICU bed for such patients is a night that another patient with a genuine prognosis for recovery is denied such high-end care. Every dollar exhausted on patients who will never wake up again is a dollar not devoted to finding a cure for cancer.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Cancer, Recovery, Night

  "Rational Rationing vs. Irrational Rationing: The Struggle for the Legacy of Ruben Betancourt". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2010.

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• Let's take back the rainbow for God. Let the homosexual community find a different religious symbol to commandeer... What I want is for the Christian community to wake up, wipe the sleep from their eyes, and realize that they are in a spiritual battle that isn't going away and has no demilitarized zones. The rainbow is a symbol, but it's meaning points to the very character of God. So Christians, use this God-given symbol for His glory. Using it won't make you a homosexual.

  Ken Hutcherson

  Christian, Spiritual, Religious

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• Honestly, just waking up every morning with headaches is tough, to know that I can't play tonight or I can't run tonight. Once the headaches started going away a little bit, I knew I had a chance.

  Alecko Eskandarian

  Running, Morning, Play

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• Tad Homer-Dixon is a rare kind of public intellectual, who combines real expertise with a commitment to communicate to the widest possible readership. In The Ingenuity Gap he wants us all to wake-up to the fearful possibility that our blithe trust in science and technology may be misplaced. Human ingenuity may not be capable of coping with two emerging crises of this century and the next: population growth and environmental despoliation. Read Homer Dixon's wake-up call and you will see the future very differently.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Real, Commitment, Technology

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