Come Up Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• If I listen long enough, the person will generally come up with an adequate solution.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Long, Adequate

  "The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur".

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• His very foot has music in 't As he comes up the stairs.

  William Julius Mickle

  Music, Feet, Stairs

  William Julius Mickle, Tobias George Smollett (1822). “The Poems of Mickle, and Smollett”, p.93

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• The people who created the crisis in the first place will not be the ones that come up with a solution.

  Arundhati Roy

  People, Crisis, Solutions

  "Arundhati Roy: 'The people who created the crisis will not be the ones that come up with a solution'". Interview with Arun Gupta, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2011.

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• If you just go out and try to make money by starting a business, you're going to come up with something that's just like what everyone else has done. But if you look at the world and see opportunities that can be taken more seriously, then you come up with a great idea.

  Blake Mycoskie

  Taken, Opportunity, Ideas

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• Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.

  Adyashanti

  Silence, Imagine

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• God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity ... down to the very roots and sea-bed of the nature He has created. But He goes down to come up again and bring the ruined world up with Him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sea, Roots, Space

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• You are the Children of God, the sharers of immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings. You divinities on earth. Come up, O lions, and shake off the delusion that you are sheep; you are souls immortal, spirits free, blest and eternal; you are not matter, you are not bodies; matter is your servant,not you the servant of matter.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Children, Sheep, Perfect

  Swami Vivekananda (2006). “Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God”, p.39, New World Library

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• I find it funny that people now come up to me and say, 'Wow, you are absolutely gorgeous. I'm like, 'I was beautiful before I lost weight. Egotistically speaking, I thought I was amazing.'

  Raven-Symone

  Beautiful, People, Weight

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

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• The way forward is to stop pestering yourself for answers and let it, the creative part of your mind, come up with the solution when the time is right.

  Steve Backley

  Way Forward, Creative, Mind

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• I don’t work as a conceptualist. Let’s say the conceptual art model is that you have a project idea, or a set of concerns, and then you illustrate those concerns in whatever manner you see appropriate. For me, it has always been that the world suggests far more subtle and interesting variations than I could ever come up with.

  John Gossage

  Art, Ideas, Interesting

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• I want you to notice nature, how geese are in flight and they form a V in a leadership role…The lead goose, when he gets tired of flapping his wings, he drops to the back and the next goose comes up front. Without stopping, without fussing, without whining. He becomes that next leader, he or she, that’s what we have to do.

  Judy Bonds

  Tired, Wings, Leader

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• Whenever you see some business person quoted complaining about how he or she can't find workers with the necessary skills, ask what wage they're offering.
  Almost always it turns out what said business person really wants is highly (and expensively) educated workers at a manual-labor wage. No wonder they come up short.

  Paul Krugman

  Skills, Offering, Complaining

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• I can be very drunk in a club in Oxford on a Monday night and some guy comes up to you and buys you a drink and says that the last record you made changed his life. That means something.

  Thom Yorke

  Monday, Mean, Night

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

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• I think Mulder is the worst FBI agent in the world. He spends millions of dollars investigating these paranormal phenomena and never comes up with any evidence. He's the Kenneth Starr of the FBI.

  David Duchovny

  Thinking, Fbi Agents, Dollars

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• My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?

  Amy Adams

  Jobs, Mean, Actresses

  "An interview with Amy Adams". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. January 8, 2003.

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• I never get recognized for 'Mean Girls.' I can be walking around with Daniel Franzese, who's in the movie and a friend of mine, and people will come up to him and start freaking out and have no idea who I am.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Mean Girls, Who I Am, Ideas

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• What's awful about being famous and being an actress is when people come up to you and touch you. That's scary, and they just seem to think it's okay to do it, like you're public property.

  Winona Ryder

  Thinking, People, Scary

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I struggle to come up to people and say what I think.

  Maisie Williams

  Struggle, Thinking, People

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• Men have just come up to me and asked for my number right away. That doesn't work. You have to know somebody and have a conversation.

  Leah Remini

  Men, Numbers, Conversation

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

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• Because I don't do stand-up, radio has always been my equivalent, a place to stay in connection with the public and force myself to write every week and come up with new characters. Plus it's a medium that – having grown up with it and putting myself to sleep with a radio under my pillow [as a kid] – I love. No matter what picture you want to create in the listener's mind, a few minutes of work gets it done.

  Harry Shearer

  Sleep, Kids, Writing

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• I've come up with the three things you never want to hear at your kid's parent/teacher conference. Number one: 'You're only responsible for the first $10,000 worth of damage.' Number two: 'We have medication for this.' And number three: 'It was more than an ounce and he was less than a hundred yards from the school.'

  Bill Engvall

  Funny, Teacher, Kids

  FaceBook post by Bill Engvall from Jan 22, 2013

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• Everywhere I go, people come up to me on the street and ask me if there’s going to be another one!

  Mike Myers

  People, Ask Me, Streets

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