Up Quotes · Page 148

I'm an exciting fighter and I always live up to the hype, unlike some other fighters who disappoint.

— Keith Thurman

John Cleese once told me he'd do anything for money. So I offered him a pound to shut up, and he took…

— Eric Idle

What has Dianne Feinstein done... I'll put my legislative background up against hers any day.

— Elizabeth Emken

A film shoot usually wraps up in a couple of months. But television shoots involve longer hours of work.

— Ashish Sharma

I got in a lot of fights growing up, and not just basketball fights.

— Avery Bradley

As footballers, you just grow up with people from different backgrounds and different colors of skin.

— Gary Lineker

Kobe Bryant was my favorite player growing up, so getting an opportunity to play for the Lakers is a big blessing.

— Austin Reaves

Your personal capacity to handle more valuable projects will go up when you appreciate yourself more.

— Brian Koslow

As I talk with the Chinese on currency, I encourage them to move much more quickly with opening up their capital markets…

— Henry Paulson

'The Magician's Apprentice' was about someone from the low end of society manifesting magical power and how that completely messes up the…

— Trudi Canavan

I grew up singing since the age of three. Vocally trained since the age of eight. Fascinated by Mary Poppins and all…

— Nikki Blonsky

Sundays in my teens were spent on homework: from 8 am until at least 8 pm, with stoppages to be fed and…

— Ronald Frame

The bane of my existence is the synopses that publishers request for a new novel or series. That's where I'm really producing…

— Michelle Gagnon

A bowler should be allowed to point out to an umpire that a batsman is backing up, leaving the officials to watch…

— Jonathan Agnew

If there is anybody trying to improve his defense, it's definitely me because I know the value of improving my defense to…

— Tommy Pham

I could never have dreamed of picking up an Ivor Novello for anything... but for Songwriter Of The Year, it's just amazing.

— Craig David

Crucially, I'd like to thank Labour party members up and down the country for sticking with us. For their active citizenship, their…

— David Blunkett

I grew up in a working-class Catholic family in south Louisiana. I went to a state university. I taught literature, wrote a…

— Nic Pizzolatto

When I grew up in the Bronx, we always had everyone telling us, 'Watch out for the system, watch out for child…

— Liz Murray

I think 'Caprica' is a little out of left field, which is kind of what I love about it. It's a little…

— Magda Apanowicz

Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone…

— Steven Weber

Scottish men of a certain age have a black response to almost everything as a measure of how sophisticated they are. I…

— Peter Capaldi

There is commerciality in storytelling, even in a film or a piece of literature. These things exist. That's why stories came to…

— Shane Carruth

We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any…

— Phil Robertson

I'm from Canada, so I did a lot of camping and rafting growing up.

— Caterina Scorsone

You have to stick up for what you believe in. And that, to me, is the biggest thing you can do about…

— Ginni Rometty

Deacon Jones grew up a street over from my grandfather, where I was raised.

— Ha Ha Clinton-Dix

I want to set up after-school programs, have basketball camps for the kids and help in the community.

— Aaron Gordon

When Joker hits his three, it opens up the game for everybody.

— Jamal Murray

Oh my God, when I auditioned for 'Hamilton,' I kept messing up the words to 'Say No To This.'

— Jasmine Cephas Jones

Sometimes you fall down, but you have to pick yourself back up.

— Vitor Belfort

I'm going to stand up for the good name of Mississippi, just like I did for Mike Espy's good name.

— Mike Espy

I've never had the 'I'm going to throw up' feeling in the ring, but I do get headaches after I wrestle if…

— Ricochet

I was afraid of not living up to what people expected me to be.

— Brigitte Bardot

I grew up in the small town of Haywards Heath, south of London.

— Lawrence Osborne

'Bottled Up' is so honest. It's something we all can relate to.

— Dinah Jane

I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

In my professional life, someone I really look up to is Kathleen Finch.

— Drew Scott

I grew up kind of poor, so like, I know it sounds pretentious, but I don't really know how to spend money.

— Mura Masa

I think you can't have swagger when you're giving up 30 points or four- or five-hundred yards.

— Devin McCourty