Come Up Quotes - Page 19

• I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.

  Jane Haddam

  Book, Character, People

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• The nature of a panther is that he never attacks. But if anyone attacks or backs into a corner, the panther comes up to wipe that aggressor or that attacker out.

  Huey Newton

  Wipe, Panthers, Corners

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• It's the hardest thing to come up with an hour of material that can consistently keep people laughing.

  Aziz Ansari

  People, Laughing, Hours

  "Q+A: Aziz Ansari, Overachiever". Interview with Adam K. Raymond, www.esquire.com. April 25, 2012.

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• What is mathematics? Ask this question of person chosen at random, and you are likely to receive the answer "Mathematics is the study of number." With a bit of prodding as to what kind of study they mean, you may be able to induce them to come up with the description "the science of numbers." But that is about as far as you will get. And with that you will have obtained a description of mathematics that ceased to be accurate some two and a half thousand years ago!

  Keith Devlin

  Mean, Years, Two

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• Atten. Pray of what disease did Mr. Badman die, for now I perceive we are come up to his death? Wise. I cannot so properly say that he died of one disease, for there were many that had consented, and laid their heads together to bring him to his end. He was dropsical, he was consumptive, he was surfeited, was gouty, and, as some say, he had a tang of the pox in his bowels. Yet the captain of all these men of death that came against him to take him away, was the consumption, for it was that that brought him down to the grave.

  John Bunyan

  Wise, Men, Together

  John Bunyan (2014). “'Life and Death of Mr Badman' and 'The Holy War'”, p.157, Cambridge University Press

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• One of life's fundamental truths states, "Ask and you shall receive." As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Kids, Rejection

  "'How Am I Doing?' The One Question That Can Change All Of Your Relationships" by Jack Canfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 8, 2009.

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• In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

  Roger Enrico

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wind

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• If a lady comes up to you and tells you that your dear mama is lying in a faint on the pavement round the corner, don't you believe her, don't have anything to do with her, do not go with her into the cab. It is the White Slave Traffic.

  Stevie Smith

  Lying, Believe, White

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• It is a great rush to come up with a joke that gets a good response from the audience. It's gold!

  Kevin Nealon

  Gold, Response, Audience

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• You know how in high school you do these plays and people come up after the show and they're really excited for you? Well, that's what's happening to me right now.

  Mira Sorvino

  School, Play, People

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• I'd met Dr Dre, he was thinking about his next album, we talked a little and he said, 'Let me give you some of these loops and see what you come up with'.

  Burt Bacharach

  Thinking, Giving, Drs

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• Sometimes I wouldn't give an interview because I didn't have the time or something else was more important. So they come up with a story which I don't think is always true, but they have to sell papers.

  Martina Hingis

  Sports, Thinking, Giving

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• My tendency as an actor is, when there's a certain energy, I feel a challenge to match it, to come up to that plate and play on the same level.

  Carla Gugino

  Play, Challenges, Energy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If fans come up to me, I talk to them.

  Chester Bennington

  Fans, Ifs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.

  Iain Banks

  Writing, Thinking, Stories

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• Very few people have the guts to come up to you and say, 'Hey, are you gay?

  Lance Bass

  Gay, People, Up To You

  "'NSYNC's Lance Bass reveals he's gay: 'I'm not ashamed ... I don't think it's wrong'" by Jennifer Vineyard, www.mtv.com. July 26, 2006.

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• As a doctor, when I was minister of health and would go somewhere, little girls would come up to me and say, 'I want to be like you one day, I want to be a doctor.' Now, they tell me, 'I want to be president just like you.' All of us can dream as big as we want.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Girl, Dream, Doctors

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• Kids are more genuine. When they come up and want to talk to you, they don't have an agenda. It's more endearing and less piercing to your aura.

  Alan Cumming

  Kids, Piercings, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.

  Alex Chilton

  Years, Trying, Sometimes

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• So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar to really try and come up with stuff that feels interesting enough to me to keep it.

  Catie Curtis

  Writing, Eight, Guitar

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• I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.

  Aaron Carter

  Girl, Air, Hands

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• I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

  Simon Callow

  Answers, Mankind, Situation

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• I was using Twitter a lot on my phone, and was realising there was a massive gap between the link on the tweet and the full story. If you could come up with a summary layer to show in Twitter, that would be awesome.

  Nick D'Aloisio

  Phones, Gaps, Would Be

  "Summly creator Nick D'Aloisio: 'I try to maintain a level of humbleness'". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2013.

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• I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books.

  Emma Donoghue

  Book

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• Immigration comes up, but the issue that is on everybody's mind is the economy.

  Mario Diaz-Balart

  Issues, Mind, Immigration

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