I always tell students that you’ve got to be practical. You do not need a dream. You need a purpose, something you can wake up to in the morning when the dream is dissipated. – Twyla Tharp
The Muslim Representative from Minnesota was elected by the voters of that district, and if American citizens don’t wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration, there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran. – Virgil Goode
We don’t watch the film anymore because we’ve seen it so many times, so we’ll introduce it, walk out and we’ll come back in right about when I wake up in the morning and walk over to the shop and everything’s changed. – Simon Pegg
Twitter is essential to me because I wake up and check it religiously. It’s a way I communicate with my fan base. – Theophilus London
There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying ‘What can I learn?.’ That’s a very different approach. – Tori Amos
I wake up each and every day with a smile on my face knowing I get to do something musically. – Two Chainz
I think I’m probably just an old-fashioned Tory. I don’t wake up each morning trying to figure out what kind of Conservative I am; for me it’s quite instinctive. – Sebastian Coe
But usually I’ll wake up and start writing about nine o’clock. I’ll probably write for about three hours, and I’ll do that over the next month and a half. – Stanley Tucci
I didn’t wake up and decide to become an activist. But you couldn’t help notice the inequities, the injustices. It was all around you. – Yuri Kochiyama
Studies have shown that children are less likely to wake up to a horn than the sound of a mother’s voice. – Tony Fadell
I don’t wake up every day and think about which tournaments I won and which titles I hold. It’s something I don’t care about. – Steffi Graf
I don’t go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, ‘Let’s see if I can get this done today.’ – Tom Brady
When I wake up, I’ll go through emails on my iPhone – the junk email. At that point, my brain isn’t usually awake enough to handle anything more than that. – Sam Trammell
I’m really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can’t say I felt that way in my late 20s. – Tori Amos
The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe… now it seems that everything has been turned upside down. – Tori Amos
Every person needs to go home and have that person to wake up to – eventually, when the party’s over. – Ty Dolla Sign
I wake up every day thinking, ‘I just can’t do it anymore.’ There’s nothing left to say, and I’m completely dry. And then I get in the room with somebody and they say the right thing, and I’m on again. – Shane McAnally
When I went around promoting ‘Crumb,’ there would be days I’d wake up in, like, Houston or Cleveland, and I’d step outside the hotel and get no idea where I was. It all looks the same: one big corporate, consumer theme park. It’s all, ‘Here’s the Starbucks, and here’s the Gap, and we’ll go over to Banana Republic and the Cineplex.’ – Terry Zwigoff
There are still people who believe in that and wake up every day believing it’s possible, and invest their whole selves in that. – Todd Rundgren
Let me put it this way: I don’t feel as settled as I look. I think that’s true of everyone, probably. Except for Beyonce and Jay-Z. I don’t think they wake up and think, ‘Ugh, when’s it going to work out for us? Why can’t we catch a break?’ Aside from them, I’m pretty sure everyone’s life feels a lot less intentional. – Sloane Crosley
El Capitan is the most chapping environment in the world: windy, cold, super dry. I wake up twice a night and reapply lotion to my hands. We sand our fingertips to keep them smooth. – Tommy Caldwell
I’ll get up at 5 or 6. I try to catch up on sleep on the weekends, so I’ll try to get seven hours of sleep. During the week, my ideal is to go to bed at 9 and wake up six hours later. – Wendy Kopp
When they told me I had cancer – a very rare form called appendiceal cancer – I was shocked. But I went straight into battle mode. Every morning, I’d wake up and have an internal conversation with cancer. ‘All right, dude,’ I’d tell it, ‘go ahead and hit me. But I’m going to hit you back even harder.’ – Stuart Scott