Come Up Quotes - Page 29

• Before I even put pen to paper, in any sense, I'm like, "What's the coolest MacGuffin you can come up with? What are the last frames of this series?" The secret that's behind this entire thing is to be as evocative, original, thought-provoking and timely.

  Paul Scheuring

  Thought Provoking, Secret, Original Thought

  Source: collider.com

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• Twitter is great and it's glorious and it's easy, but if somebody comes up with something kind of like Twitter tomorrow, that's better or smarter or more useful, in three weeks time, Twitter could more or less be history because that's how fast things go.

  Neil Gaiman

  Three, Tomorrow, Kind

  "Neil Gaiman Talks AMERICAN GODS, DOCTOR WHO, Writing a Musical, Ray Bradbury, China and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 30, 2011.

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• It's always dangerous to prescribe an idea on other people. I think people's interactions with art are their own, and will be far more interesting and sophisticated than anything that I could come up with.

  Tom Sturridge

  Art, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• Really good original ideas are very hard to come up with. Good ideas - easy. Really good, original ideas - it can take months.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Ideas, Months, Easy

  Source: collider.com

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• It's very unique. When you have someone who's lucky to get a minute in a game come up and tell you how you can be better when he's two years older than you, it's such a selfless act. Everyone is willing to tell you how to get better.

  Christopher Page

  Unique, Two, Years

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• Perhaps there is a minimum distance that should separate one exhibit from another... Indeed those specialized in psychophysics have actually come up with some rules.

  Semir Zeki

  Distance, Exhibitions, Should

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• There have been so many people that have come up and embraced me as an example of what it's like to face something tough and just get up the next day and keep pushing.

  Ann Romney

  Next Day, People, Example

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• Compared to dreams, reality can be truly cruel. But it can also come up with beautiful surprises.

  Nujood Ali

  Beautiful, Dream, Reality

  Nujood Ali, Delphine Minoui (2010). “I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced”, p.126, Broadway Books

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• If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused.

  Lance Armstrong

  Hollywood, Stories, Scripts

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• British scientists say they have developed a super broccoli that can help fight heart disease. You know, if you want to fight heart disease, why don't you come up with a food people will actually eat? Like a super glazed doughnut.

  Jay Leno

  Heart, Fighting, People

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• When one speaks of increasing power, machinery, and industry there comes up a picture of a cold, metallic sort of world in which great factories will drive away the trees, the flowers, the birds, and the green fields. And that then we shall have a world composed of metal machines and human machines. With all of that I do not agree. I think that unless we know more about the machines and their use, unless we better understand the mechanical portion of life, we cannot have the time to enjoy the trees, and the birds, and the flowers, and the green fields.

  Henry Ford

  Flower, Thinking, Green Fields

  Henry Ford, Rose Wilder Lane, Samuel Crowther “The Story of Henry Ford - An American Dream Cone True”, Lulu.com

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• I can’t help thinking about memoir as a down-and-up process: Dive down for color; come up for context. Sink back down for action; climb back up for self-awareness and gratitude.

  Koren Zailckas

  Gratitude, Thinking, Self

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• A political country is like an American forest; you have only to cut down the old trees, and immediately new trees come up to replace them.

  Walter Bagehot

  Country, Cutting, Tree

  Walter Bagehot (1930). “The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays”, p.7, Lulu.com

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• Sometimes I'm thinkin' I'm Too high to fall Other times I'm thinkin' I'm So low I don't know If I can come up at all

  Bob Dylan

  Fall, Sometimes, Lows

  Song: Black Crow Blues, Album: Another Side of Bob Dylan

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• If David Brent is the best thing that I ever come up with, then so be it. What are you supposed to do, time the best thing you do for just before you die?

  Ricky Gervais

  Best Things, Dies, Ifs

  2003 On his character in the television series The Office. Quoted in the Observer, 14 Dec.

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• You know I've had people come up and ask me to sign their guns. Sign my name on gun handles and holsters and stuff. I've done it once or twice for law enforcement officials, but when people do that -- and there have been quite a few of them lately -- I always tell them no. I don't want to do that. I don't want my name on that and I hope you use this gun, whatever its purpose is, I hope it's used wisely.

  Clint Eastwood

  Gun, Law, Names

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• I have way too many commitments. I get pulled in too many directions and I never seem to be able to satisfy anybody. People get turned on by knowing a celebrity, even my friends and family. They feel that there's something exciting about me, but in reality there's no substance to it. People in airports just hold on to me expecting something and it seems that I always come up empty. It's frustrating because I'm trying to please everybody, and ya just can't do that ... at least I can't.

  Tim Allen

  Commitment, Reality, Airports

  "An interview with Tim Allen". Interview to Laugh Factory Magazine, www.timallen.com. 1994.

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• I want my street to be crazy, I want my avenues, shops and buildings, to enter into a crazy dance, and this is why I deform and distort their outlines and colours. However I always come up against the same difficulty, that if all the elements were one by one deformed and distorted excessively, if in the end nothing remained of their real outlines, I would have totally effaced the location that I intended to suggest, that I wished to transform.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Crazy, Real, Elements

  "Prospectus et tous écrits suivants". Book by Jean Dubuffet, Vol. II, p. 483, 1967.

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• Soros and the Tides Foundation have been trying to indoctrinate our kids. Do you remember that stupid - what was the name of that - what was the name of the film that they did? There it is - "Story of Stuff."

  Glenn Beck

  Stupid, Kids, Names

  "Glenn Beck: Show Me Your Friends". "The Glenn Beck Show", www.foxnews.com. September 29, 2010.

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• Being part of The L Word made me realize how much more television can be that what I had experienced in my lifetime in terms of being able to be of service to people. I had so many fans come up to me who were really deeply appreciative of the show and what it had meant for them and their own sense of identity and their own sense of inclusion in our society and in our culture.

  Jennifer Beals

  People, Identity, Culture

  "The Chicago Code: Interview With Jennifer Beals". Interview with Lynn DeVries, tvdramawatch.com. February 04, 2011.

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• The difference when you have kids comes up when someone wants to meet you out after 9:30 at night. You consider that giant sacrifice. You're like, "Do I do this? Do I stay out until 10:30 and be angry, all of tomorrow?

  Adam Sandler

  Kids, Sacrifice, Night

  Source: collider.com

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• I am always amazed by the novel angles that people come up with for kids' Christmas books. Even if a family is not religious, who could resist, say, "Olive, the Other Reindeer," about Olive the dog who thinks the song refers to her and heads for the North Pole to help Santa out?

  Jabari Asim

  Dog, Song, Religious

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Usually, I start thinking about my next novel soon after completing the latest, and it can take anywhere from a month to 6 months to come up with a story.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Thinking, Stories, Next

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The word infrastructure means nothing to the majority of people of America. We have to come up with a sexier word than infrastructure. So the key thing is that you have to go out and promote and market this the right way like with everything in policy.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Mean, America, Keys

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The core tenant of what I teach is there are no facts inside the building. When we come up with a new idea, we tend to slide into our own reality distortion field to convince ourselves and others. And that's not healthy.

  Steve Blank

  Reality, Ideas, Healthy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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