Come Up Quotes - Page 33

• Around year seven or eight, you'd kill yourself when you realized Norm had to enter and you had to come up with a new beer joke.

  Ted Danson

  Beer, Years, Eight

  Source: www.gq.com

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• It's hard to program a computer to make jokes. The brain needs to do something here; the brain needs to come up with something bizarre to make something funny.

  Brian Regan

  Brain, Needs, Computer

  Source: www.charlestoncitypaper.com

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• Everybody has their favorite character.That's the only way I pick, whatever is going on in society, whatever I think folks will laugh at that's what I come up with.

  Jeff Dunham

  Character, Thinking, Laughing

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• I've always been a fast reader. Now I had to do it slowly, discussing each sentence. And every time I wanted to change something I had to come up with an intelligent defense I could be pretty sure that they would turn my suggestion down, as they had so many aspects to keep in mind. However, if I argued well, I could have a chance. I had to think of every comma, every word.

  Karl Ove Knausgard

  Intelligent, Thinking, Mind

  "'Something that's not yourself.' — An Interview with Karl Ove Knausgård". Interview with Rebecka Bülow, logger.believermag.com. September 18, 2013.

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• Note-taking is important to me: a week's worth of reading notes (or "thoughts I had in the shower" notes) is cumulatively more interesting than anything I might be able to come up with on a single given day.

  Teju Cole

  Reading, Interesting, Important

  "How Writers Read (Vol. 3)". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. December 11, 2014.

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• I have enjoyed teaching most of the times that I have done it. I also like being by myself and making things and performing, so much that if I hadn't needed an income I probably wouldn't have done much teaching. Having said that, I think working with others, having to come up with art projects, and learning how to present your ideas in a clear way, to adults and/or kids is always interesting and rewarding.

  Ed Askew

  Art, Teaching, Kids

  Interview with Christian Filardo, logger.believermag.com. November 27, 2013.

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• If life has not made you by God's grace, through faith, holy--think you, will death without faith do it? The cold waters of that narrow stream are no purifying bath in which you may wash and be clean. No! no! as you go down into them, you will come up from them.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Death, Thinking, Water

  Alexander Maclaren (1859). “Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester”, p.56

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• Listen, after almost twenty years of call-in radio, I can tell you that the main thrust of too many lives is an overemphasis on feeling good instead of doing good. Being admired and respected by the self and others has taken a back seat to feeling good, or, at least, avoiding feeling bad. And, oh boy, the excuses some of you can come up with for doing so!

  Laura Schlessinger

  Taken, Boys, Self

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• Marriage is like democracy - it doesn't really work, but it's all we've been able to come up with.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Marriage, Democracy, Able

  Shirley Hazzard (1988). “Cliffs of Fall: And Other Stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• Exercise your imagination muscle! How many uses can you come up with for a flowerpot? Write down your answers. But don't write them in this book. Grab a separate sheet of paper. I didn't spend two and a half weeks writing a book just so you could mark up the pages with your silly ideas for things you can do with a flowerpot. When it comes down to it, what's wrong with a flowerpot not being a flowerpot? Why is nothing ever good enough for you?

  Amy Sedaris

  Silly, Book, Writing

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• Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature, and the fairest. It is the fruitfulness of many plants growing into one flower and sowing itself over the world in shapes of beauty and color, which differ with the soil that receives and the sun that ripens the seed. In Persia, it comes up the rose of Hafiz; in England, the many-blossomed tree of Shakespeare.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Flower, Plants Growing, Color

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• I'm no good at describing my books. 'Holes' has been out now for seven years, and I still can't come up with a good answer when asked what that book is about.

  Louis Sachar

  Book, Years, Answers

  "A Few Words From Louis Sachar". "Small Steps" Hardcover Edition, www.randomhouse.com. 2008.

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• It's not annoying if only a couple of people come up. If a bunch of them crowd around me, it's annoying.

  Brian Bonsall

  Couple, People, Crowds

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• The essence of justice is mercy. Making a child suffer for wrong-doing is merciful to the child. There is no mercy in letting the child have its own will, plunging headlong to destruction with the bits in its mouth. There is no mercy to society nor to the criminal if the wrong is not repressed and the right vindicated. We injure the culprit who comes up to take his proper doom at the bar of justice, if we do not make him feel that he has done a wrong thing. We may deliver his body from the prison, but not at the expense of justice nor to his own injury.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Children, Essence, Justice

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• The first undeniable reality is that every living thing dies, and the second undeniable reality is that we suffer throughout our lives because we don't understand death. The truth derived from these two points is the importance of clarifying the matter of birth and death. The third undeniable reality is that all of the thoughts and feelings that arise in my head simply arise haphazardly, by chance. And the conclusion we can derive from that is not to hold on to all that comes up in our head. That is what we are doing when we sit zazen.

  Kosho Uchiyama

  Death, Truth, Reality

  Kosho Uchiyama, Tom Wright, Jisho Warner (2004). “Opening the Hand of Thought: Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.

  Paolo Giordano

  Moving, Games, Ideas

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• If you take men and lock them in a house for five years and tell them to come up with two children and they fail to do that, then we will chop off their heads.

  Robert Mugabe

  Children, Men, Years

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• I never heard the expression, "A strong man," unless somebody was in the gym lifting a heavy barbell. Why is there a difference between being an ambitious, driven woman or passionate woman and a passionate man? That is something that has come up a lot.

  Megan Griffiths

  Strong, Men, Differences

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• With scheduling and the way projects come up, I take the first thing that interests me and that moves me. If it's going to be fun, if I'm going to have a good time, and I'm going to enjoy the people I'm with, then that's a good enough reason to do it.

  Nathan Fillion

  Fun, Moving, People

  Interview with Tony 'G-Man' Guerrero, comicvine.gamespot.com. January 28, 2009.

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• I always have my setlist planned out, but the best moments are when the energy of the crowd just gets your mind working and you are able to come up with new tags for jokes and just riff off things in the room.

  Aziz Ansari

  Mind, Able, Rooms

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• It's amazing because people come up to me and say, 'Chuck, you're the luckiest guy in the world to be a world karate champion and a movie and TV star.' When they say this to me, I kind of smile because luck had nothing to do with it; God had everything to do with it.

  Chuck Norris

  Stars, People, Guy

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• The Pixar people continuously amaze me. They come up with something that actually looks as though it takes place in this happy, real-world. Every plot line is not just plausible, but oddly authentic. The stories are full of adventure, humor and love. The characters are written with great human dimension. I don't know how they do it but they astound me.

  Tom Hanks

  Real, Adventure, Character

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• People come up to me and share very personal and intimate things with me, and I am so touched by all the trust they have in me.

  Tim Gunn

  People, Intimate, Share

  "Project Runway's Tim Gunn". Interview with Tony Peregrin, chicagoist.com. September 8, 2010.

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• A lot of great thinkers- like Einstein and Newton- come up with their best ideas when they're young because they don't yet think in the way that the establishment teaches them. Sometimes your lack of knowledge frees your mind to be creative and think in a different way. But you still have to be logical and figure out a practical way to get things done, even though you're looking at things differently.

  George Lucas

  Thinking, Ideas, Creative

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• Some days I have a knot in my stomach because I've got to sit down and come up with something in womenswear that no one else came up with.

  Ralph Lauren

  Down And, Stomach, Knots

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