"France is an old country that needs to wake up."
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"Pain is G-d's megaphone to wake up the world."
"Wake up meat head, don't pretend that you are dead."
"There should be a better way to start a day than waking up every morning."
"I know and value what it means to wake up and be alive and to share my story. I'm so blessed to be here and to be able to talk about it."
"I have worries and fears just like everybody else. But I have every reason to wake up each morning and be very happy."
"If you've got cool nails, you wake up and you're like, 'Oh, I'm happy now.'"
"Science has done absolutely nothing about noise. The worst design flaw in the human body is that you can't close your ears. The reason you can't close your ears is, if a lion was coming, you had to wake up. Today no lions are coming. Beeping trucks are coming. I read the other day that the guy who invented the beep when trucks go backward, he died. I thought: Of course - he dies, I have to listen to it."
"Our planet's alarm is going off, and it is time to wake up and take action!"
"Wake up. Get out of your mind. Be present."
"When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep."
"You need to wake up if you want to dream."
"Life's work is to wake up, to let the things that enter your life wake you up rather than put you to sleep."
"My main goal now is waking up healthy every day and going on with life."
"Of course you lose track of where you are sometimes, as you finish a show and ride in a tour bus from anywhere from 3 -12 hours and wake up in another city, and check into a hotel. So, I woke up after a few hours, packed all my stuff up and headed for the bus to depart for that day's show. I get to the lobby and our production person looked at me and said, "where are you headed?" - It was a day off!"
"Every day when you wake up, ask yourself, 'What do I really, really, really want? ' You have to say really, really, really, otherwise you won't believe it."
"Something in me, in my bruised heart, wakes up, and even though I'm terrified, I don't push the feeling away."
"You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity."
"We all do the wrong thing. And then we have to wake up the next morning and live with the fact that we have done things that are wrong."
"One day we'll wake up and discover we are family."