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Reaching Up Quotes

I've looked at pictures that my mom has of me, from when I was four years old at the turntable. I'm there, reaching up to play the records. I feel like I was bred to do what I do. I've been into music, and listening to

I've looked at pictures that my mom has of me, from when I was four years old at the turntable. I'm there, reaching up to play the records. I feel like I was bred to do what I do. I've been into music, and listening to music and critiquing it, my whole life.

Dr. Dre
Mom, Reaching Up, Years
"Dr Dre will see you now ... but you won't hear Detox until 2011" by Hattie Collins, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2010.

And reaching up my hand to try, I screamed to feel it touch the sky.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
Reaching Up, Hands, Sky
Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.116, eBookIt.com

Mephostopheles is the name of a male gigolo I knew. When he's reaching up to grab me, I suppose it's an erotic bit of poetry.

Thom Yorke
Names, Reaching Up, Erotic

I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies

Paulo Coelho
Thinking, Reaching Up, Sky

I refuse to accept the idea that the “isness” of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal “oughtness” that forever confronts him.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Men, Reaching Up, Ideas
"I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr".

I think that's what finally stopped me. I slid right to the edge. My legs were hanging over. And I could feel it too. I don't know how. There was no wind, no sound, no change of temperature. There was just this terrible emptiness reaching up for me.

Mark Z. Danielewski
Thinking, Reaching Up, Wind

We are like flowers always reaching up towards some shred of light. I find this wondrous, nearly magical, certainly brave.

Marisa Silver
Flower, Reaching Up, Light
Source: therumpus.net

A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear, because you feel naked. There's a fear of not reaching up to expectations. As you become more famous, people come and expect to hear something extraordinary, so you don't want to disappoint them. I feel this sense of responsibility.

Andrea Bocelli
Responsibility, Reaching Up, Voice

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