morning

Quotations

Quotations on the topic of ‘morning’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).

  • “I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o’clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill.” -Gerrit Smith

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  • “When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign, you came in the morning you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in.” -Ed Gillespie

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  • “It’s such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning.” -Joe Pantoliano

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  • “I don’t believe in writing at night because it comes too easily. When I read it in the morning it’s not good. I need daylight to begin. Between nine and ten o’clock I have a long breakfast with reading and music.” -Gunter Grass

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  • “In the last year my wife has noticed me struggling to get downstairs on a Sunday morning. I’ve two young children and football has been so good to me over the years I don’t want to spoil it.” -Graeme Le Saux

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  • “I don’t know why you call it morning sickness, because I was sick all day and night!” -Soleil Moon Frye

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  • “After the first day of practice, there’s not one guy who’s playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it just hurts.” -Tom Brady

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  • “I literally have meetings at eight o’clock in the morning, and I finish at nine o’clock at night. It sounds pathetic, but I don’t even have time to go shopping.” -Stella McCartney

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  • “The thing I care about is my weight – I’m as fanatical about it as a member of Girls Aloud. I weigh myself every morning. I know exactly what I want to be – 82kg – and I try to stick to it.” -Tony Parsons

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  • “Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I’ve had to deal with in politics.” -Ann Richards

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  • “Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes you can be in a completely vast suburban sprawl or an Italian or Asian suburb, and it’s that mix of people, it’s that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality.”…

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  • “It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.” -Jacques Barzun

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  • “I tend to start at 9 o’clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms of the world. So I write for six hours, pretty much without any breaks.” -Justin Cronin

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  • “I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword – I’m loyal to one particular paper, the ‘Guardian’ – and that’s my idea of a perfect morning.” -Laura Marling

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  • “Throughout my 20s I spent a lot of time just playing and not really working, but fortunately for me I continued to get just enough work, and have a reason to wake up in the morning. I really empathize with some of my peers who had success in the early years then it dries up,…

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  • “I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.” -Patrick Wilson

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  • “It was morning through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.” -Herman Hesse

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  • “I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me.” -Gina Carano

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  • “I am focused on what needs to be done for the people of Israel. Period. I do not pity myself and I do not pat myself on the shoulder. I get up in the morning full of energy to fulfill my mission.” -Ehud Olmert

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  • “I had three children while doing a show, as demanding as ‘Good Morning America,’ so this is – you know, it’s almost like I’m less daunted about motherhood, and parenting at this point in time. And I think I’m just much more fit and healthy than I was 20-years-ago.” -Joan Lunden

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  • “I’d skip school regularly to see movies – even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.” -Francois Truffaut

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  • “I was a very undisciplined person but acting was something that actually motivated me to get up in the morning. I hadn’t experienced that before, but it was something that really excited me. I think I could be quite self-conscious and it gave me a release.” -Rufus Sewell

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  • “What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning love’s the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.” -Robert Burton

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  • “I don’t dream songs. I’m more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the morning from which will come songs.” -Judy Collins

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  • “The crew are the faces you see every morning and last at night before you go home. I spend more time with those people than I do with my friends and family, so they’re forever a part of you and who you become as an actor so I hope I see them again.” -Claudia Black

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  • “And I have to say, what motivates me every day and I know my Democratic colleagues is to remember that every day 14,000 people get up in the morning with insurance that go to bed at night without it and most of them because they lost their job.” -Debbie Stabenow

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  • “Probably millions of Americans got up this morning with a cup of coffee, a cigarette and a donut. No wonder they are sick and fouled up.” -Jack LaLanne

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  • “I’m set to have my best year ever: I’m hiring some acts and there will be a show in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening. I’m going to use my theater to its fullest potential.” -Mickey Gilley

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  • “It’s not easy waking up every single morning knowing what you’re going to put your body through and having to do it. We don’t have days off.” -Bryan Clay

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  • “I’ve found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. It’s ridiculous, I should be sleeping, or dreaming, or reading a novel.” -Brit Marling

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  • “The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.” -Charles Dudley Warner

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  • “My life had become a catastrophe. I had no idea how to turn it around. My band had broken up. I had almost lost my family. My whole life had devolved into a disaster. I believe that the police officer who stopped me at three a.m. that morning saved my life.” -Trey Anastasio

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  • “The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.” -Armstrong Williams

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  • “It only worked for a little while the morning after I agreed to go with Universal, an article came out in the Hollywood trade papers, and the secret was out.” -Laura Hillenbrand

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  • “Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.” -Andrew Bird

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  • “Never get married in the morning – you never know who you might meet that night.” -Paul Hornung

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  • “I never thought in a million years I’d be that healthy girl who wakes up every morning to exercise. After being called ‘cherubic and chubby,’ I’m rocking a bikini!” -Kelly Osbourne

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  • “You were up at 5 o’clock in the morning, and then you’d ride in a caravan, because we didn’t have big movie trucks or trailers that is the hardware of a movie camp.” -Marguerite Moreau

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  • “I don’t have to get up in the morning and go beat up my body like I used to. I don’t have to be out there in August in 108 degree weather down in Texas.” -Emmitt Smith

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  • “Waking up with a bad head in the morning is difficult sometimes.” -Caroline Corr

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  • “You show up in Paris, and on the drive from the airport to the hotel you’re like, ‘This is so cool! I want to see something! I want to go to the Eiffel Tower!’ And then you leave the next morning. You think, Oh, I didn’t get to do anything. I tell people: I’ve been…

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  • “As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon.” -Rudolf Arnheim

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  • “I’m a mom – I’m lucky if I get to shower in the morning. Luckily, nail polish stays on my toes. I’ve been so bad on the upkeep, though.” -Idina Menzel

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  • “A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.” -A. J. Liebling

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  • “Yeah, I’m not really a morning person.” -Sophie Ellis-Bextor

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  • “If I’m playing in the morning, I’ll get some carbs early: porridge with chopped banana. If I’m playing in the afternoon, I’ll start with less carbs and have some eggs and fruit for breakfast, then a light lunch about 90 minutes before I play, so I don’t feel sluggish or full.” -Rory McIlroy

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  • “Remember my first tenet in getting dressed is how you feel in the morning. So if you’re not being true blue to that, it usually shows.” -Pharrell Williams

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  • “Yes, I still love ‘South Park,’ but I also love morning TV now.” -Mo Rocca

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  • “We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn’t know he lost his job, the recent college grad facing up to the painful reality that the only door that’s open to her after four years of study and a pile…

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  • “I was shocked by the amount of Welsh people in L.A. We’d go to this British pub to watch the ‘Six Nations’ early in the morning and I remember the first time I walked in it was just a sea of red.” -Matthew Rhys

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  • “A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.” -R. L. Stine

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  • “On ‘Morning Joe’ I can say what I think, be my sometimes unorthodox self, have fun, yet be serious as well.” -Mika Brzezinski

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  • “You’d have to think that you’re at least decent, or you couldn’t get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good.” -Martin Mull

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  • “I wake up every morning in a cold sweat, regardless of how well things went the day before. And put that I said that in a somewhat but not completely tongue-in-cheek way.” -Harvey Pekar

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  • “When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn’t expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.” -Joe Slovo

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  • “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” -George Horace Lorimer

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  • “I had an amazing childhood, lots of love. But my dad worked his tail off, getting up at 4 in the morning and going off at 5, 6 o’clock, yet he always had time to spend with his kids and his wife.” -Criss Angel

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  • “I have to say when we talk about the treatment of these prisoners that I would guess that these prisoners wake up every morning thanking Allah that Saddam Hussein is not in charge of these prisons.” -James Inhofe

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  • “How can a doctor judge a woman’s sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination.” -Nellie Bly

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  • “Even as a kid, I never liked breakfast. I just don’t like to eat then. I like to get up and work. I think sticking a whole bunch of carbohydrates in your stomach in the morning is probably the worst way to begin the day.” -Candace Bushnell

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  • “The worst part about pregnancy would definitely have to be my nausea. I don’t know why it’s just called morning sickness because morning sickness never just happened in the morning for me and it’s not happening just in the morning for my sister.” -Tia Mowry

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  • “The thing with me is, if I wake up one morning and I’m not happy working as an actress, I’ll stop. It’s not something I have to do. It’s not a vocation.” -Samantha Morton

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  • “The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What impact could it have? These are questions leaders I have spoken to have posed.” -Kofi Annan

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  • “I never really drank coffee in college, but now I’m on my feet all day and out all night and can’t believe it hasn’t always been in my life. When morning comes I crave it.” -Gail Simmons

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  • “Those golden minutes before you are completely awake, when your mind is just drifting, you have no censorship you are ready to develop any kind of idea. That’s when I come up with the best and worst ideas. That is the privilege of being a writer – that you can stay in bed for an…

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  • “The episodes all blend together for me, so I don’t remember. I can’t even remember what I had for breakfast this morning. I always feel I must be such a disappointment to them.” -Sarah Michelle Gellar

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  • “I still love doing what I do, and I’m really lucky to get up in the morning and want to go to work.” -Heston Blumenthal

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  • “It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.” -Frank Auerbach

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  • “Now, on nights that I can’t sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.” -Namie Amuro

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  • “In West Virginia, the most vulnerable people we have are people who get up every morning and go to work.” -Joe Manchin

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  • “She got the magazine on a Wednesday morning, and on Thursday announced our marriage was over.” -David Gest

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  • “I don’t go to Mass every day. But I go to church every day. Just sitting there, thinking – it’s a great way to start the morning, you know? You feel so good coming out, and your approach to everything is suddenly really clear.” -Mark Wahlberg

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  • “But to the slave mother New Year’s day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.” -Harriet Ann Jacobs

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  • “On the last morning of Virginia’s bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.” -Patricia Cornwell

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  • “I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o’clock the next morning I was up writing again.” -Abraham Pais

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  • “You know, the market was down yesterday… my first thought when I heard-just on a personal basis, when I heard there had been this attack and I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I thought, Time to buy.” -Brit Hume

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  • “I have a hotline to the tabloids. When I get up in the morning, I call the Star, and the last thing at night, I call them. I want them to have the inside track.” -Kirstie Alley

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  • “Normal people don’t just wake up in the morning and say I think it’d be a good idea to run for president of the United States.” -Jon Huntsman, Jr.

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  • “I am a morning writer I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day’s writing.” -Carlos Fuentes

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  • “Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books.” -Geraldine Brooks

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  • “I have to say that when you tour the world, obviously, the jetlags and different hours and ways of living and traveling, a lot of hours in the plane, and you wake up in the morning and you’re not quite sure where you are, and it is very tiring.” -Celine Dion

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  • “If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.” -George Aiken

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  • “I eat as much as the next girl, but I work my butt of in the gym every morning! The key is moderation. I splurge on the weekend. A big bowl of pasta and a delicious slice of cake for dessert are my favorites.” -Giuliana Rancic

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  • “In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn’t play good, or accidents happen continuously. Many things contradict what you are trying to say. But in cartoons, nothing contradict what you want to say.” -John Hench

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  • “I’ve never been a TV junkie. I remember watching Letterman way back when he had a morning show.” -Todd Barry

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  • “If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning.” -Larry Page

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  • “My wife gets all the money I make. I just get an apple and clean clothes every morning.” -Ray Romano

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  • “Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.” -Michael Morpurgo

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  • “What I couldn’t help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I’d learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism.” -Philip Pullman

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  • “There’s also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time – when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years.” -Andrew Wiles

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  • “Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs.” -Sheena Easton

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  • “The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.” -Anne Tyler

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  • “A lot of people think Formula One isn’t a sport because everyone drives a car when they go to work in the morning. But we’re pulling up to six G on a corner or during breaking, which is almost like being a fighter pilot. So we have to do a lot of work on our…

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  • “How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.” -Anna Held

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  • “I am not a morning person.” -Laurell K. Hamilton

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  • “I couldn’t wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.” -Ben Hogan

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  • “Whereas I used to get depressed or neurotic or dwell on things, I see my son’s bright eyes and smile in the morning, and suddenly, I don’t feel like I’m depressed anymore. There’s nothing to be depressed about when you’ve got that.” -Corey Feldman

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  • “Most of the top actors and actresses may be working in ten or twelve films at the same time, so they will give one director two hours and maybe shoot in Bombay in the morning and Madras in the evening. It happens.” -Satyajit Ray

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  • “We were doing it under the most extraordinary circumstances, but the first out of the tent in the morning would be David Lean. He said to me on the very first day of shooting, Pete, this is the beginning of a great adventure.” -Peter O’Toole

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  • “When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes.” -Ernie Banks

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  • “I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.” -Naguib Mahfouz

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  • “I kind of woke up one morning and was like, ‘Oh I see what’s happening, I get everything’. I woke up and was like, ‘I get it, I’m a product.’” -Taylor Momsen

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  • “Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can’t think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into…

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  • “Hitchhiking was such a pure form of existence. You’d wake up in the morning, and you’d have no idea what your day was going to be. And that’s something I’ve never been able to shake. I loved that.” -John Hawkes

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  • “I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the ‘Today’ programme and item four on the news was: ‘The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.’ I lay there thinking that’s interesting, then I realised it was me.” -George Osborne

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  • “I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.” -Ian Botham

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  • “I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.” -Bruce Willis

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  • “I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.” -Izaak Walton

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  • “I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in.” -Rachel Stevens

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  • “London is completely unpredictable when it comes to weather. You’ll start a scene, and it’s a beautiful morning. You get there at 6 in the morning, set up, you start the scene, start shooting. Three hours later, it is pitch black and rainy.” -David Schwimmer

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  • “I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he’s guilty do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?” -Jim Garrison

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  • “I was the type of guy that used to get up in the morning and go out and just out run everybody on the field without stretching or warming up or anything.” -Bo Jackson

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  • “I don’t mind traveling that much when I can go somewhere and stay there for a while, but touring is different. You rarely see anything. You get there early in the morning and you’re resting all day, and you go in and do a sound check, and you do the show, and then bam you’re…

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  • “The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.” -Gaston Bachelard

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  • “Too much coffee. Too much coffee and Gatorade. It’s a hell of a mix. If you’re ever tired in the morning, just try that mix, and tell me what you think.” -Kevin Garnett

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  • “I started running 3 miles every morning after throat surgery to remove a cyst last year. The gym used to be my adversary. But that has all changed. Now, I look forward to it every morning.” -Rachael Ray

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  • “When I get up in the morning and put on a pink or a green wig, I see myself as a piece of animation. It lets me be the person I want to be, a person who’s not embarrassed to have fun.” -Nicki Minaj

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  • “My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don’t get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I’m just a screwball all day long.” -Rainn Wilson

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  • “I always like to start my morning with a good amount of fruit. I really like pineapple, particularly because of the enzymes that it has. Sometimes I have oatmeal. But if I’m feeling like I really want to be watching my weight more, then I definitely do a protein, like an omelet, scrambled eggs or…

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  • “I really am super lazy and doing long hair, especially mine, is a big pain in the butt. It’s filled with cowlicks and kinks and curls and frizz – and it was taking too much time in the morning.” -Ginnifer Goodwin

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  • “I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better – as in the ‘Chronicles Of Narnia,’ ‘The Wizard Of Oz,’ ‘The Phantom Tollbooth,’ the ‘Dungeons &amp Dragons’ cartoon on Saturday morning in the ’80s.” -Lev Grossman

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  • “When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.” -Lee Trevino

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  • “The most used piece of kit in my kitchen is my saucepan. I use it every morning to cook my porridge in. The least used piece of equipment? I’d say a food mixer. I’ve never used it, I don’t really know what they’re for.” -David Walliams

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  • “I have a Viking stove. The color is butter lemon, and I had to wait several months for it, because that color wasn’t available and I really wanted butter lemon! But I don’t know that it’s seriously ever been cooked on. I mean, I make tea every morning. Does that count?” -Andy Cohen

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  • “Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning.” -Rob Sheffield

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  • “Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.” -Christopher Columbus

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  • “You’ve got to set yourself up to be as healthy as you can. The thing we tend to do is when it gets to be a bit too hard, we actually opt out for the absolute worst option. For example, if you’re in a rush in a morning and you feel like you don’t have…

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  • “I’m not a morning person. I’m really not.” -Brooke Burke

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  • “My extravagance is my garden – it’s the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.” -Ina Garten

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  • “It is a challenge, with the global fame, to try to act like I put my pants on one leg at a time, when in fact I have Pippa Middleton help me put my pants on every morning. She’s my lady-in-waiting as well.” -Kathy Griffin

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  • “I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.” -Carl Hiaasen

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  • “It was huge to read the Proverbs of the day every morning, it was huge to read the Psalm of the day every morning and to get that in us and get us going before the day even started.” -Tim Tebow

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  • “One thing I’ve very quickly learned is that if you wake up every morning worrying about what’s in the press, you would go completely and utterly potty.” -Nick Clegg

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  • “A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.” -Florence Griffith Joyner

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  • “I’ve done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.” -Richard Burton

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  • “What is news? It’s hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality – a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It’s…

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  • “The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.” -Jean Kerr

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  • “I want to host a religious show. I’m sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o’clock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really get some of our own preachers and preach that gay is good. And we’d have a great choir.” -Kate Clinton

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  • “Previously, on Lock, Stock, I went to bed at two in the morning and woke up at five in the morning, and on this one I was known to nod off on the set occasionally.” -Guy Ritchie

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  • “We went to a small lake, Bass Lake. It was beautiful. It was perfectly still when we got there in the morning. The fog was lifting off the water. It was just magical. And we did catch some fish, 13 fish.” -Jennifer Granholm

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  • “I don’t wake up each morning saying, ‘Oh, wow, it’s me. I think I’m the cat’s meow. I’m the best.’” -Jeb Bush

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  • “You know how you wake up in the morning and sometimes you look gorgeous and other times you look like you got hit by a mack truck? I realized that my mack truck is food. If I have no sugar, yeast or wine, I have no undereye bags and my skin is perfect.” -Mariska Hargitay

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  • “I exercise every morning. I do light weights – 5lb and 10lb arm exercises – and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It’s all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too.” -Larry Hagman

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  • “Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.” -Alan Shepard

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  • “My days, if they start in the morning with a cuddle from my son, are just so much more glorious than they were prior to that.” -Russell Crowe

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  • “Every morning I wake at 6am or 6.30am, champing at the bit.” -John Grisham

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  • “The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening – there’s something to be said for that.” -Ian Somerhalder

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  • “I had the perfect job for a gamer. From February to October, I’d get up at 7 in the morning with nothing to do but play games until I had to be at the park around 1 or 2 o’clock. When I got back after the game, I played until 3 or 4 in the…

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  • “I get up at the same time every morning.” -Mehmet Oz

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  • “I don’t ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.” -Pete Hamill

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  • “One thing that happens when you’re pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there’s a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It’s really like basting a turkey with body butter.” -Padma Lakshmi

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  • “If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn’t eat lunch.” -A. N. Wilson

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  • “My personality, when tasked with creating meals, goes something like this: Is there a way we can make this more difficult? Because let’s do that. I don’t mean to complicate things. It’s just – why buy pre-packaged potato salad when you can spend your morning boiling potatoes and flipping out because there’s no dill in…

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  • “When I go out clubbing I can dance ’til three o’clock in the morning with just a water bottle in my hand. I love dancing to anything with a good beat really. My favorite song to dance to at the moment is probably Drake’s ‘Best I Ever Had.’” -Jordin Sparks

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  • “I’m a car fanatic and each morning I wake up with a smile on my face, whether I’m commentating on the Formula One or at Silver Hatch racetrack in Roary the Racing Car.” -Murray Walker

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  • “The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.” -Wallace Stevens

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  • “When you walk out of your house in the morning, you don’t know what you’re going to see.” -Kyle Chandler

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  • “Chronic malnutrition, or the lack of proper nutrition over time directly contributes to three times as many child deaths as food scarcity. Yet surprisingly, you don’t really hear about this hidden crisis through the morning news, Twitter or headlines of major newspapers.” -Cat Cora

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  • “I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there’s just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning.” -Dave Eggers

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  • “I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.” -Karl Rove

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  • “Early this morning, I signed my death warrant.” -Michael Collins

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  • “For me the greatest revenge of all is having a happy adulthood, waking up in my gorgeous turquoise bedroom in the morning beside a person who really inspires me. That’s the best revenge a girl-loving girl from the Bible belt could possibly have. And, importantly, it’s healthy.” -Beth Ditto

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  • “For us political activists and candidates, the morning after any election is a mix of emotions – the personal and the immediate, the culmination of your own recent campaigning efforts and the fortunes of your party and the success or otherwise of what you stand for and believe in.” -Lucy Powell

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  • “One morning, about four o’clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable, and it came to me: I’m falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with.” -June Carter Cash

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  • “I think my real depressions started when I was about 16 and doing The Patty Duke Show. I would go to bed at about 10 o’clock on a Friday night and not get up again until 6:30 Monday morning.” -Patty Duke

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  • “‘Good Morning America’ exploited Joan Lunden’s pregnancy, but you won’t see me bringing my babies on the air. The only reason I’m talking about the babies at all is that they’ve been with me on the show since I became pregnant. After a while, I had to acknowledge this pumpkin tummy.” -Jane Pauley

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  • “I don’t have a single complete show or movie or anything else that I could look at and say, ‘Nailed that one.’ But endless dissatisfaction is, I suppose, what gets us out of bed in the morning.” -Hugh Laurie

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  • “I know I have to be like people expect, because people love to dream with me, they like to think that I love my boat of 50 metres, that I drink Cristal for breakfast, that I dance until five o’clock in the morning. I am not like that.” -Roberto Cavalli

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  • “Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o’clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.” -Haruki Murakami

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  • “When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.” -Haile Gebrselassie

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  • “A famous person to themselves, they don’t get up in the morning and think, I’m famous. I’m not famous to me. Famous is a perception.” -Van Morrison

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  • “I blend my green drink every morning. I also fix my son a full-on American breakfast with bacon and toast.” -Liz Phair

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  • “No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.” -Cyril Connolly

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  • “The world is new to us every morning – this is God’s gift and every man should believe he is reborn each day.” -Baal Shem Tov

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  • “Barack Obama knows that to create an economy built to last, we need to focus on middle-class families. Families who stay up on Sunday nights pacing the floor, like my dad did, while their children, tucked in bed, dream big dreams. Families who aren’t sure what Monday morning will bring, but who believe our nation’s…

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  • “I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don’t head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.” -Ice Cube

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  • “You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.” -John Burns

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  • “It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.” -Al Pacino

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  • “Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can’t wait to get to work in the morning. I’ve got steady jobs, I’ve got my health, and I’m here in the greatest city in the world. I’d be a pig not to be grateful.” -Christopher Meloni

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  • “I’m very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in ‘Morning Glory’ with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.” -Rachel McAdams

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