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Roger Moore favorite thing to do with us when we were young was to take us swimming, especially when we went out to Italy, where my mother was from, it was right by the sea, so every morning we ’d get up at the crack of dawn together and go out for a swim. It was wonderful.

Deborah Moore

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

If you were living in Africa 3 million years ago without fire, without structures, and without any means of defense, you'd better be able get up in a tree when the sun goes down.

Jeremy DeSilva

Found on CNN
6 years ago

It’s very difficult because I love playing Maria. It’s a match I always get up for, it’s extremely disappointing but I made a promise to myself that if I’m not at least 50 percent, I shouldn’t play.

Serena Williams

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It’s hard enough to get up in the morning and go through this tedious process of getting dressed and getting a cup of coffee. Then to do therapy is difficult. More mentally than physically. You do repetitive things — gross motor movement, something for the fingers, then something for the wrist. Repetitiveness is the key to all of this.

Ken Meeks

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

He didn't get up one day and go, 'I think I'll change my mind on ZTE.' I think it's part of a larger issue, and part of a larger set of negotiations.

John Kennedy

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

I'm trained for emergency situations and that's just exactly what it was, and I felt moved to act as well as other people on that plane, god created a servant heart in me, and I felt a calling to get up and do something.

Andrew Needum

Found on CNN
6 years ago

We’re very careful here not to try to mandate a lot of different things but this is a no-brainer, after all, adults get breaks at work, right ? It’s because they’ve learned that people need a break to get up, move around, to be able to come back and they do better. So, same with children.

Senator Allen

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It came early, actually, this past Sunday, [Lauren] wakes me up and was like, ‘Hey, you’ve gotta get up, I’m having the baby!’ And it was like a full-on, full-tilt boogie, going 100 mph… We get in the car and as soon as I’m backing up, she’s like, ‘April Fool's!’.

Dwayne Johnson

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

If schools, not only just our school and our administration, but across the country are going to allow one group of students to get up during class and walk out to protest one issue, would they still give the same courtesy to another group of students who wanted to protest … abortion ?

Julianne Benzel

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

He was a mama’s boy, if we were having dinner and he didn’t like the food, his mother would get up in the middle of the meal to cook him something special, and this was at a time when we didn’t have a lot of money.

Benny Dacy

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

When someone tries to get up, only then people stab them from behind, so that he dies and never gets up.

Sanyuktaa

added by Sanyuktaa
6 years ago

We sleep in our offices because we work until midnight and get up early, we don’t see our staffs. I never see my staff when I return.

Paul Ryan

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I have this challenge to my future colleagues in Washington, take this election where the people of Alabama said Congressional Democrats want to get something done : Congressional Democrats want you to find common ground, Congressional Democrats want you to talk. … Go ahead and fund that CHIP program before I get up there.

Democrat Doug Jones

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Foo Fighters tend to bring fans on stage to play songs with them, it must be weird for them. I could never have imagined being like 16 years old and having like Rob Halford say, ‘Get up here and play ‘Living After Midnight’ with us. I would have been stoked.

Foo Fighters

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Every time I watch it, I’m shocked and amazed that I was able to walk away the way I could, it definitely wasn’t a normal walk. I hobbled and was able to get up and out. But I was amazed the damage wasn’t more severe.

Officer Lesell

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

They’ve been a tremendous comfort just to see how you go on living after something like this, to see them still functioning […] because when it happens to you, you don’t think you can ever get up in the morning again.

Phil Vetrano

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Took about 10 minutes to get up out of there.

Frankie Bledsaw

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I thought it was my mom’s friends because sometimes they pray and they start dancing, so I get up from my bed and I start walking over to my door. And as I'm opening my door, I make eye contact with the SWAT officer and he pushes up against the door with his shield and he slams me against the wall. He starts screaming at me, ‘Stop resisting! Stop resisting!’.

Israel Orellana

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

You get bad days where you’re sad or feel depressed, and some days it takes a lot of motivation to get up, those times I try to give myself a pep talk, or think I’m going to turn off my mind and just do it. And sometimes, you just have to suck it up.

Scott Johnson

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It makes me feel like I need to get up and do something when I’m not doing anything, i try to keep up with him.

Mike Norton

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

People are expecting me to be able to do exactly what I did back then, i am nothing but a machine now. I get up in the morning. I eat. I train. I eat. It’s the toughest thing I ever embarked upon, guys. I’m 13 years removed from the business. I can’t name a power wrestler who has come back 13 freaking years afterwards. And then, within 20 pounds of what he was back then.

Bill Goldberg

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

My mom would clean it every week and I would tag along and get up there and pretend to preach to an invisible crowd, in a small community you are all family and that church kept everyone connected in some way and that is what will be missed the most.

Jill Pederson

Found on CNN
7 years ago

With the spring time change, you essentially have to go to bed earlier and get up earlier, which is difficult for many of us to do, most of us end up losing 40 to 50 minutes of sleep those first few days—and as a nation that’s significantly sleep deprived to begin with, even that little change can impact health.

Sandhya Kumar

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

When I hit him my arms locked, i wanted to roll over and lift my head. All I could remember is lifting my head trying to get up but I couldn’t get up.

Devon Gales

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

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