Come Up Quotes - Page 12

• 'Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

  Frank Miller

  Fun, Dirty, Naughty

  "Black and white and bloody" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2005.

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• The whole memorial is for different senses... seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling. I probably would have come up with something different if I had not lived through it.

  Lawrence Halprin

  Memorial, Feelings, Different

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• A good place to start a more civil dialog would be for my Republican colleagues in the House to change the name of the bill they have introduced to repeal health care reform. The bill, titled the "Repeal the Job Killing Health Care Law Act," was set to come up for a vote this week, but in the wake of Gabby's shooting, it has been postponed at least until next week. Don't get me wrong - I'm not suggesting that the name of that one piece of legislation somehow led to the horror of this weekend - but is it really necessary to put the word "killing" in the title of a major piece of legislation?

  Chellie Pingree

  Jobs, Stupid, Weekend

  "For Gabby’s Sake, Republicans Should Change the Name of Their Health Care Repeal Bill" by Chellie Pingree, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 09, 2011.

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• Elena had always felt like the center of her own world - who doesn't? The world arranged itself around her like petals around the stem of a flower. This way the meadows, that way the woodland. Over here, the baryn's estate, out there, the hills that hug the known world close and imply a world at beyond. She could never come up with the edge of a world, because it always kept going on beyond. She moved the center of the world as she walked. The world was balanced on her head.

  Gregory Maguire

  Life, Flower, Hug

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• Our intention is to really explore this transition and, beyond that, explore the particular things that someone comes up against when they're gay or lesbian.

  Laura Innes

  Gay, Transition, Intention

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• There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true.

  Ian Hart

  Typewriters, Monkeys, Thanks

  2001 In the Sunday Herald, 30 Dec.

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• Indecision is a major time waster; 80% of decisions should be made the first time they come up

  Brian Tracy

  Decision, Firsts, Wasting Time

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• . . . God is too busy making the sun come up and go down and watching so the moon floats just right in the sky to be concerned with color . . . only man wants always God should be there to condemn this one and save that one. Always it is man who wants to make heaven and hell. God is too busy training the bees to make honey and every morning opening up all the new flowers for business.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Morning, Flower, Men

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• My job is to come up with something that you like and you agree with that you would play wholeheartedly. If we disagree, I may not be doing my job correctly.

  Harold Ramis

  Jobs, Agreement, Play

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• I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come up with solutions.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Trying, Together

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• I think of bad news as a huge bird, with the wings of a crow and the face of my Grade Four school teacher, sparse bun, rancid teeth, wrinkly frown, pursed mouth and all, sailing around the world under cover of darkness pleased to be the bearer of ill tidings, carrying a basket of rotten eggs, and knowing- as the sun comes up- exactly where to drop them. On me, for one.

  Margaret Atwood

  Teacher, School, Thinking

  Margaret Atwood (2008). “Moral Disorder and Other Stories”, p.5, Anchor

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• I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using.

  Thom Gunn

  Trying, Want, Corny

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• As the dawn comes up like thunder.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Morning, Dawn, Thunder

  "Mandalay" st. 1 (1892)

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• I win and succeed only 'cause I fail so much. I fail all the time. I wrote 70 songs just to have 12 good ones. For the video I shot 60 hours of footage. 60 hours! To come up with an 8 minute video. So really I only win 'cause I fail.

  Jared Leto

  Song, Winning, Video

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• I have met thousands of children now, and not even one time has a child come up to me and said, 'Ms. Rowling, I'm so glad I've read these books because now I want to be a witch.'

  J. K. Rowling

  Children, Book, Want

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• It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel that way.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Thinking, Stories, Way

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• As I get more confident as a filmmaker, I don't need to prepare so much in advance. I can trust that I and my team can come up with a solution.

  David Mackenzie

  Team, Needs, Filmmaker

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's no such thing as clean coal. It's non-existent. Theoretically, it might be possible, many years from now, to come up with a way to clean it as it's burnt. But there's not a single demonstration project in the United States. [...] Clean coal doesn't exist.

  Al Gore

  Years, Climate, United States

  "Al Gore: Energy Crisis Can Be Fixed". Interview with Katie Couric, www.cbsnews.com. July 17, 2008.

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• We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the results of their researches

  Franz Boas

  Research, Scientist, Results

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• This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Climbing, Valleys, Brag

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• I've come up with the theory that the music is within. We don't bring it in; it's already there. We have to figure out how to get it out.

  Howard Roberts

  Music, Figures, Theory

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• I hate all the old pictures of me before 2010 - and they are always the first ones to come up. That's why I don't Google myself, man.

  Big Sean

  Hate, Men, Google

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• The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world-class expert - in anything. In study after study, of composers, basketball players, fiction writers, ice skaters, concert pianists, chess players, master criminals, and what have you, this number comes up again and again…no one has yet found a case in which true world-class expertise was accomplished in less time. It seems that it takes the brain this long to assimilate all that it needs to know to achieve true mastery.

  Daniel Levitin

  Basketball, Player, Numbers

  "Outliers: The Story of Success". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, November 18, 2008.

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• Farm policy, although it's complex, can be explained. What it can't be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked family car, no mayor of Washington, D.C., videotaped in flagrante delicto has ever come up with anything as farfetched as U.S. farm policy.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Cheating, Car, Farming

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.248, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, Running, Darkness

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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