Come Up Quotes - Page 23

• Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.

  Harper Lee

  Tkam, People, Mad

  Harper Lee (1970). “To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.20, Dramatic Publishing

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• I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

  Chris LeDoux

  Song, Writing, Ideas

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• I wrote about drugs, and I didn't think I was being unsafe or careless by writing about them. I didn't want fans to think heroin was cool. But then I've had fans come up to me and give me the thumbs up, telling me they're high. That's exactly what I didn't want to happen.

  Layne Staley

  Writing, Thinking, Thumbs Up

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• I could not wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.

  Ben Hogan

  Morning, Golf, Waiting

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• Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today.

  William Eggleston

  Photography, People, Answers

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• He'd (Yogi Berra) fall in a sewer and come up with a gold watch.

  Casey Stengel

  Fall, Gold, Watches

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• I just have one of those faces. People come up to me and say, 'What's wrong?' Nothing. 'Well, it takes more energy to frown than it does to smile.' Yeah, you know it takes more energy to point that out than it does to leave me alone?

  Bill Hicks

  Funny, Humor, People

  "Bill Hicks: Relentless". Documentary, Comedy, 1992.

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• Quoting Scripture leads you to the fountain, but only if you plunge in and come up wet will I know that you are a Christian.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Scripture, Fountain

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• I'm not an educated man, but I've read some history. Every kingdom comes up bloody. Every castle is built on a pile of bones. When I came out here, LA was nothing. Back east I was a gangster, out here I'm god.

  Mickey Cohen

  Men, Castles, East

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• I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.

  Madeleine Albright

  People, Democracy, Oxymoron

  "QUESTIONS FOR MADELEINE ALBRIGHT; State of the Secretary". Interview with Deborah Solomon, query.nytimes.com. April 23, 2006.

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• I have come up with a sure-fire concept for a hit television show, which would be called `A Live Celebrity Gets Eaten by a Shark'.

  Dave Barry

  Fire, Sharks, Would Be

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.171, Ballantine Books

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• Part of paying the price is the willingness to do whatever it takes to get the job done. It comes from a declaration that you are going to get it done no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes, no matter what comes up.

  Jack Canfield

  Jobs, Long, Done

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• The responsibility of leadership is not to come up with all the ideas but to create an environment in which great ideas can thrive.

  Simon Sinek

  Responsibility, Ideas, Environment

  FaceBook post by Simon Sinek from Apr 07, 2016

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• We're all living on borrowed time. The trick is to come up with works of sufficient interest to pay off the debt.

  John M. Ford

  Debt, Pay, Borrowed Time

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• But I suspect that all writers come up with premises of some kind, fragments of narrative or scenarios, in the course of a working week.

  Nick Hornby

  Narrative, Kind, Week

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• But where do we come up with this notion of a woman in which the less space you take up, the more you're worth?

  Dar Williams

  Space, Notion

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• The sun comes up just about as often as it goes down, in the long run, but this doesn't make its motion random.

  Donald Knuth

  Running, Long, Sun

  Donald E. Knuth (2014). “Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2: Seminumerical Algorithms”, p.115, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• One man's trash that's another man's come up.

  Macklemore

  Men, Trash, Another Man

  Song: Thrift Shop, 2012

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• One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets. Not just any streets, but the toughest, meanest streets of the urban ghetto. And that's called 'street credibility'.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Ghetto, Artist, Urban

  "The Stop Snitchin' Crisis; Did U.S. Military Choose Public Relations Over Truth in Tillman Death?; War of Words Over Iraq Funding Escalates". "Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees", April 24, 2007.

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• Fifteen-year-old girls produce children with sixteen-year-old boys in the backseat of cars and in the stairwells of apartment buildings. Why can't two loving adults who have contemplated parenthood and are prepared to offer love, patience, and devotion come up with enough chromosomal matter to stick together and create a child?

  Scott Simon

  Girl, Children, Boys

  "Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption". Book by Scott Simon, 2010.

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• People tend to think that in order to start a new business they have to come up with something new and dazzling, but that's a myth - and it's often propagated by venture capitalists.

  Gurbaksh Chahal

  Thinking, Order, People

  Gurbaksh Chahal (2008). “The Dream: How I Learned the Risks and Rewards of Entrepreneurship and Made Millions”, p.59, Macmillan

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• We tend to look at successful athletes and make them almost bigger than life. I have seen many young men who have achieved greatness. I have also seen those who have come up a little short of their potential. I do know that those who succeed have been able to recognize within themselves the potential to do something well and then work hard to prepare themselves for that eventual opportunity. Others wait for the opportunity to come and then start to work, thus coming up a little short.

  LaVell Edwards

  Life, Athlete, Hard Work

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• Crime in the city streets is more than a political issue. It's a too rampant fact.... In Indianapolis they have come up with a most sensible, affordable approach to the problem. Policemen are assigned their police patrol cars for personal use after hours. They are encouraged to use the police car while taking the family shopping, to the movies, and everywhere one takes one's family. As a result, says the Police Chief's assistant, we may have as many as 400 cars on the street instead of 100 or so per shift. [And] the presence of the police car obviously indicates the proximity of policemen.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Issues, Cities, Shopping

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• You have to come up in the world before it's worthwhile for those worth less to put you down.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Success, World, Worthwhile

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• If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.

  Seth Godin

  Inspiring, Moving, Heart

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