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Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight. -- Robert Mapplethorpe
Tommie Aaron taught me how to have a good attitude, to be easy going and not get uptight. -- Dale Murphy
My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard. -- Iggy Pop
I think that I was being much more uptight about those things before. I feel like I really don't have to prove anything at this point other than what I'm doing. -- Diana Krall
The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything. -- Carl Yastrzemski
Contrary to the royal and uptight image of polo, I want to bring it to a younger generation. This is a great sport that can have a larger audience and appeal to more people. Sportsmanship is lacking in many other sports that I don't want to name. -- Randeep Hooda
One of the things that comedy has given me over the years is a really good ability to laugh at myself and to not take things that don't matter too much too seriously. I feel that very little offends me anymore and I'm really grateful for that because I think I was a pretty uptight little kid. -- Anna Faris
Life is for living, not living uptight, see ya somewhere up in the sky. -- Jay-Z
Just because we are back home, don't get comfortable. Have that same uptight feeling like it's just us against everyone. -- LeBron James
I have always had severe problems with Austrians. ... Musical, churchy, uptight... nice legs... hypocritical... authoritarian... always insist their dustbins are very clean. -- Peter Greenaway
I've always sung in the shower. Now I make the stage a mental shower in order not to get too uptight and enjoy it. -- Elizabeth Taylor
We're going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It's the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music. -- Brian Eno
There are people who are younger than I who are more uptight than I am. It's not necessarily an age thing. I mean nobody is offering me 20-year old leads any more. -- Ewan McGregor
...when you let go of your expectations, when you accept life as it is, you're free.To hold on is to be serious and uptight. To let go is to lighten up. -- Richard Carlson
It sounds funny, but my biggest fear is that I'm not perfect. I'm a perfectionist, and I get upset when things go wrong or when I don't do well. I used to be very uptight, but I've learned to loosen up. -- Nick Jonas
I don't advise a haircut, man. All hairdressers are in the employment of the government. Hairs are your aerials. They pick up signals from the cosmos, and transmit them directly into the brain. This is the reason bald-headed men are uptight. -- Bruce Robinson
The problem is that we live in an uptight country. Why don't we just laugh at ourselves? We are funny. Gays are funny. Straights are funny. Women are funny. Men are funny. We are all funny, and we all do funny things. Let's laugh about it. -- Bob Newhart
THE ONLY GOOD THING IS MY FANS LIKE ME AND COME TO SEE ME AND THATS ALL THAT MATTERS. EVERYBODY ELSE CAN KISS MY ASS. IF THEY DONT LIKE MY POLITICAL INCORRECTNESS THEN THEY CAN KEEP THEIR UPTIGHT P C ASS AWAY FROM MY SHOW. ITS THAT EASY. -- Larry the Cable Guy
Diablo Cody wasn't writing a script about a 16-year girl that got an abortion. She was writing a script about a 16-year old girl that got pregnant, decided to have the baby and give it to a young yuppy uptight couple for adoption. That's what the movie is about. -- Ellen Page
Practically everybody knows what its like to feel anxious, worried, nervous, afraid, uptight, or panicky. Often, anxiety is just a nuisance, but sometimes it can cripple you and prevent you from doing what you really want with your life. But I have some great news for you: You can change the way you feel. -- David D. Burns
I never joined the army because at ease was never that easy to me. Seemed rather uptight still. I don't relax by parting my legs slightly and putting my hands behind my back. That does not equal ease. At ease was not being in the military. I am at ease, bro, because I am not in the military. -- Mitch Hedberg
When it comes to dressing well, American culture is so self-fulfilled that it has not only disregarded this courtesy of self-presentation, but has turned that disregard into a virtue. "We are too superior/busy/cool/not-uptight to bother about how we look to other people, and so we can wear pajamas to school and underwear to the mall. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I can zero in on a vision of where I want to be in the future. I can see it so clearly in front of me, when I daydream, it's almost a reality. Then I get this easy feeling, and I don't have to be uptight to get there because I already feel like I'm there, that it's just a matter of time. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Hug and kiss whoever helped get you - financially, mentally, morally, emotionally - to this day. Parents, mentors, friends, teachers. If you're too uptight to do that, at least do the old handshake thing, but I recommend a hug and a kiss. Don't let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone. -- Stephen King
In some cases, she was actively trying not to make friends, though she usually stopped short of being rude. (Uptight, tense, and mildly misanthropic? Yes. Rude? No.) -- Rainbow Rowell
What are you? Insane? I'm not interested in Ms. Preppy Uptight Sloan Ranger. Jeez. I'd get khaki between my teeth. Can you imagine? I've never been in khaki and I never want to see a woman out it. It scares me. (Dev) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'm certainly not an uptight home owner. -- Drew Barrymore
I'm probably the most uptight, conservative person you'll meet. I'm very religious. -- Danielle Steel
When you first start out with something new, you're always a little uptight. -- Don Rickles
I like someone who doesn't take life too seriously. I hate people who are a bit uptight. -- Louis Tomlinson
I'm sorry, but chick fights are sexy. If you don't think so, you're either an uptight woman or a lying man. -- John Ridley
Everything I know about the FBI came from movies! Right? The idea of these kind of uptight, conservative guys whose ties are tied too tight. -- Leslie Hope
I was a Christian. I didn't want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26. -- Jimmy Carr
I grew up in Northern California, so the hippies were still around. My father and mother were very Republican, very strait-laced and very uptight, but my uncles were hippies. -- Grant Show
It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round. If everyone was straight-laced and uptight, it would sure be a drag. We need a little tug of war in society. -- Nikki Sixx
I try to be really hippie about things. I'm uptight in all the ways that are really important, but the things my husband and family can benefit from my uptightness, I'm completely lacking. -- Amanda Peet
It just so happens that people aren't doing comedy about abortion or cannibalism or waterboarding. And that to me doesn't necessarily mean that there aren't aspects of those subjects that are funny, it just means that people are too uptight. -- Rob McElhenney
I think we're very uptight in America. You have to remember that we're descended from Puritans. Whether or not the country is now composed of immigrants, our culture as American really begins with the landing of the Pilgrims and a puritanical view of things. -- Tom Ford
I felt black. I was as far as I was concerned. And I wanted to be black for lots of reasons. They were better musicians, they were better athletes, they were not uptight about sex, and they knew how to enjoy life better than most people. -- Jerry Leiber
I graduated from high school in '62 and I didn't know any people who were gay. I'm sure there were people, but I didn't know any. For years and years, I guess, I was very uptight about being a gay actor. I thought it would make me less hirable. -- John Glover
Practically everybody knows what it's like to feel anxious, worried, nervous, afraid, uptight, or panicky. Often, anxiety is just a nuisance, but sometimes it can cripple you and prevent you from doing what you really want with your life. But I have some great news for you: You can change the way you feel. -- David D. Burns
I never thought of acting as a creative process. Christ, I used to go to the movies and see Brando talking like he was trying to sell shoes, and he was great. I thought anybody could do it. Then I tried it, and I got so uptight, I'm limited as to what I can do on film. -- Kris Kristofferson
Who is my biggest inspiration? Wow... I really, without wanting to sound 'aw gee shucks,' I'd have to say my wife who taught a rather uptight Englishman what there is to be got out of life. Susan is my greatest inspiration. She has more integrity than anyone I know, and integrity is more important than anything for a happy and successful life. -- Charles Shaughnessy
People who are too uptight make me nervous. -- Victoria Chang
Baby, everything is alright, uptight, out of sight. -- Stevie Wonder
Christians and non-Christians have something in common. Were both uptight about evangelism. -- Rebecca Pippert
To make a squirrel look less uptight, put tiny sunglasses on it. -- Demetri Martin
You don't want to be too uptight about anything. Especially your job. -- Gilbert Arenas
Everybody in the states is so relaxed, and everybody in Japan is so uptight. -- Ichiro Suzuki
I get always a little uptight when I hear politicians say how exceptional America is. -- John F. Kerry
Stockholm is very, like, posh and uptight, and everything should be so luxurious and refurbished. -- Karin Dreijer Andersson
The computer brings out the uptight perfectionist in us - we start editing ideas before we have them. -- Austin Kleon
I've noticed the people most uptight about smokers and drinkers don't really have a problem with gluttony and gossip. -- Tim Hawkins
Basil Fawlty was an easy character for me. For some reason, portraying a mean uptight incompetent bully comes naturally to me. -- John Cleese
Why be uptight about bowel movements and sex? We all have sex. We all have penises -- except for those of us who have vaginas. -- Howard Stern
Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table. -- Natalie Goldberg
German people get very uptight if you mention World War II. Germans today feel that what's past is past, new generations don't really remember it. -- Donna Summer
I separate cartooning, which is fun and wacky and soulful, from illustration, which is very well-drawn and extremely uptight to look at. There's a difference. I'm a cartoonist. -- Ralph Bakshi
Laughing at fear is one of the best things you can do. When you are afraid, instead of just plunging into panic, laugh. The fear gets really uptight and leaves. -- Frederick Lenz
In my experience I haven't met too many uptight black people. I'm sure they're out there. Like I'm some big authority and I've lived in the inner city and ghetto. -- Paul Reubens

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