Come Up Quotes - Page 27

• When I first met my agent, I said, "If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette."

  Tia Carrere

  Personality, Age, Blonde

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

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• Quite apart from the problem of the vote, it's bad for the image of Parliament that people take the trouble to come up and are not allowed to see their MP.

  Vince Cable

  Mps, People, Vote

  "Lib Dems and Galloway defend absences" by Matthew Tempest and Ros Taylor, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2005.

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• I don`t think the Disney Channel gives us enough credit for the age range Lizzie McGuire actually has. College students come up to me, grandparents, famous people. It`s really funny.

  Hilary Duff

  College, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are a million people who can come up with little bits. The hard work is making those bits into something.

  Jeff Lynne

  Work, People, Littles

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• I admire anyone who can come up with something original. But not originality alone, because there can be originality in stupidity, with no musical description of any emotion or any beauty the man has seen, or any kind of life he has lived.

  Charles Mingus

  Men, Stupidity, Musical

  "What Is A Jazz Composer?". Charles Mingus' liner notes for "Let My Children Hear Music", album composed by Charles Mingus, January/February 1972.

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• Moms come up to me at book signings.

  Judy Blume

  Mom, Book, Signing

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• It's real hard to come up with something unique. We've seen just about everything over the last 10 years.

  Ricky Davis

  Real, Unique, Years

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• My caddy today was a Scot and he told me that he was cheering for Australia, which I thought was a bit harsh. But generally I've been amazed at how many people have come up to me here in Scotland and said: 'I've never really watched cricket before, but I was hooked all summer.' It's great.

  Andrew Strauss

  Summer, Cheer, Scotland

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• When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Persistence, Simple

  Newsweek Interview on October 14, 2006. "Steve Jobs Legacy: His Stanford University Address & More Great Quotes" by, www.thedailybeast.com. October 07, 2011.

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• Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges and come up with elegant solutions. [...] It's not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep. [...] You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.

  Steve Jobs

  Hard Work, Simple, Order

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• Now these fellows in Washington wouldn't be so serious and particular if they only had to vote on what they thought was good for the majority of the people in the U.S. That would be a cinch. But what makes it hard for them is every time a bill comes up they have things to decide that have nothing to do with the merit of the bill. The principal thing is of course: What will this do for me personally back home?

  Will Rogers

  Home, People, Majority

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• We think that computers are the most remarkable tools that humankind has ever come up with, and we think that people are basically tool users. So if we can just get lots of computers to lots of people, it will make some qualitative difference to the world.

  Steve Jobs

  Thinking, Differences, People

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• Mickey's a nice fellow who never does anyone any harm, who gets into scrapes through no fault of his own but always manages to come up grinning.

  Walt Disney

  Nice, Doe, Faults

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• To be damned is to be banished from, or be deprived of living in the presence of the Father and the Son. Who will live with him? They [who] will come up and inherit the highest glory that is prepared for the faithful.

  Brigham Young

  Father, Son, Faithful

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.271

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• Up! Children of Zulu, your day has come. Up! and destroy them all!

  Shaka

  Children, Military

  "Shaka Zulu: The Rise of the Zulu Empire". Book by E. A. Ritter, p. 179, 1955.

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• The Buddhist mind is more complicated than the Christian mind. It comes up with endless heavens, endless hells, endless earths, and then we have something lower than hell. We have endless sub-realms that make hell look like Club Med and we have endless nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Christian, Buddhist, Heaven

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• I've come up with my own cure for a closed mind: try it once, and see.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Mma, Mind, Trying

  Georges St-Pierre (2013). “The Way of the Fight”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• I like Stallone, because he writes. He sits down with a blank page and comes up with another Rambo movie. That isn't very easy for anybody. He's made it successful on top of that.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Writing, Successful, Pages

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Because you have very limited time and you have to be very judicious and wise about how you spend it. But otherwise, I've always been - ever since I was a kid, I've always been coming up with ideas. So I'm able to come up with crazy ideas twice for two collections! It's fun.

  Prabal Gurung

  Wise, Fun, Crazy

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I keep having these bros come up to me and say, "I used to watch you when I was a fetus," and I just want to kill them.

  Nick Offerman

  Watches, Fetus, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The music comes first, like, 99 percent of the time. I come up with the basic chord structure and the melody first and then I get really obsessed with arranging, adding, and subtracting parts. The last step of the process, for me, is finding words that fit into that structure and figuring out exactly what I want to talk about.

  Mikal Cronin

  Want, Lasts, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Alec Baldwin made us all feel like [we could] pal around with him and come up with the best scenarios or scenarios if you're a f - king asshole. So working with him was Alec Baldwin does it the best.

  Kate Hudson

  Kings, Doe, Pals

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• I'm always in the elements, it seems like it's pouring rain on me a lot and there's crowds of people pushing me around, and it feels very real. Which is great as a actor, you don't have to come up with too much of it. I'm always amazed.

  Charlie Day

  Real, Rain, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I have people constantly come up to me telling me that I have written their life. When I wrote the story I thought it was a pretty good story but I had no idea that many people felt like that.

  Blackie

  Ideas, People, Stories

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• D.C. fans, I think, are so good. They just come up to me, and they're so nice and so polite and just, 'Hey, I hope you have a great career,' and 'How are you doing, everything's good?' That's pretty much where they leave it at.

  Bryce Harper

  Nice, Thinking, Careers

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