Come Up Quotes - Page 39

• Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.

  Solon

  Law, Break Through, Spiders

  In Diogenes Laertius 'Lives of the Eminent Philosophers' bk. 1, ch. 58.

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• That is what diminishes the artist and his song. The artist is now hermetically sealed. The publishing company got him his deal and they expect to profit from his songs. So what if he is a better singer than a songwriter; let's put him in a room with a real songwriter. Something great is bound to come...except very often nothing great comes out of such contrived match-ups. Nobody knows where a great song comes from, and that's why so many writers credit the Lord as a co-writer (though I notice they never offer Him half the writer's royalties) when they come up with a real gem.

  Michael Kosser

  Song, Real, Writing

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• The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him. Has he talents? has heenterprise? has he knowledge? It boots not. Infinitely alluring and attractive was he to you yesterday, a great hope, a sea to swim in; now, you have found his shores, found it a pond, and you care not if you never see it again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friends, Men, Sea

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.406, Library of America

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• Every new social structure strives to come up with some kind of mythology of divine origin for its values and aims.

  Zsuzsanna Budapest

  Kind, Strive, Social

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• One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women. I always write about women who are marginalized, who have no means or resources and somehow manage to get out of those situations with incredible strength - and that is more important than anything.

  Isabel Allende

  Mean, Writing, Important

  "The WD Interview: Isabel Allende". Interview with Jordan E. Rosenfeld, www.writersdigest.com. August 27, 2008.

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• Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn't, science will fix it.

  Bill Nye

  Best Things, Humans, Ifs

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• It was dark and misty for 2 weeks, and I didn't come up with a thing. Suddenly the sun shone and it was, 'Wow, look at those beautiful Alps.' I wrote 'Mr. Blue Sky' and 13 other songs in the next two weeks.

  Jeff Lynne

  Beautiful, Song, Dark

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• In a New York Post interview, Judy Blume, author of young-adult fiction, gave this advice on getting your kids to read: "Moms come up to me at book signings and describe how they're telling their daughters, 'These were my favorite books,'?" she says. "I say, 'Quit it! That's the biggest turnoff!'"You want to get them to read them, leave them around the house and every so often, say, 'You're not ready to read this yet.'

  Judy Blume

  Mom, Daughter, New York

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• Skeptics squat by the road like guardians of truth, letting no one pass who doesn't come up to scratch. They never realize that they can see only what their paradigm tells them to look for. If you judge a person only by how well he plays pool, Mozart won't pass scrutiny, but the fault is in your lens.

  Deepak Chopra

  Play, Judging, Faults

  Deepak Chopra, Leonard Mlodinow (2011). “War of the Worldviews: Where Science and Spirituality Meet -- and Do Not”, p.302, Harmony

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• Life is very narrow. Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would come up!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Intelligent, Men, Years

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.387

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• My thing is when people come up and say to me good set tonight and I say you too and then you find out that person is not in any band. Happens to me a lot.

  Oliver Sykes

  People, Band, Tonight

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• When it comes to explaining the Blessed Virgin Mary, having a lot of love is more important than having a lot of answers. When we come up lacking, she’ll make greater goods out of our deficiencies, as only a mother can do. Whenever we're humiliated and shown our weakness, we should get ready for something better than we could ever plan and prepare to accomplish. Evangelize with joy, then, and with confidence. Know from the start that you don’t have all the answers-but your Savior does, and He loves His mother. He will give you everything you need, even if sometimes you need to fail.

  Scott Hahn

  Mother, Blessed, Love Is

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• Singapore gives 10% "white space" time to all of its teachers to come up with their own innovations outside of the official curriculum. This encourages teachers to turn to their colleagues for inspiration and ideas.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Teacher, Inspiration, Ideas

  "The Global Search for Education: What Is the Fourth Way?". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2013.

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• I loved Omar Vizquel. He tells some really long jokes, and he has his own way of telling them, but he can make every joke very funny. He would always come up with jokes on the loudspeaker on the bus.

  Steve Finley

  Long, Way, Omar

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• [God] wants you to go home, look at your bucket of seed, and determine in your heart how much you'd like to sow. He wants you to consider thoughtfully your current circumstances, your life, your potential, and your finances. He wants you to involve your family. He wants you to pray about it. And then He wants you to come up with a plan.

  Andy Stanley

  Home, Heart, Buckets

  Andy Stanley (2006). “Fields of Gold”, Tyndale House Pub

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• When you make a film that is based in reality, reality will come up all around it.

  Mario Van Peebles

  Reality, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Once I come up with the concept, the rest of the song just comes.

  Fetty Wap

  Song, Concepts

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• I work with people and we come up with ideas for movies, television and things like that. It's fun and I love doing it.

  Stan Lee

  Fun, Ideas, People

  "Stan Lee explains what grownups crave as much as kids". Interview with Donna Dickens, uproxx.com. April 14, 2015.

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• You often feel like you are on a high wire with no net productions because you have to rely on spontaneity and come up with ideas on the spur of the moment - and then what happens is that there is electricity to it that gets caught.

  Nicolas Cage

  Ideas, Wire, Spurs

  "National Treasure: Book of Secrets - Nicolas Cage interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• People hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.

  Lily Tomlin

  People, Culture, Kind

  Source: deadline.com

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• The things that are the hardest are the things that are due the quickest. The more time you have the easier it is to come up with things and navigate. I think the other things that are tough are films that are very, very subtle. Where there are little tiny nuances that make a big difference.

  Christopher Lennertz

  Thinking, Differences, Littles

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• I've never gone to school for recording. I wish I understood it more. School's been hard, learning things has been hard, because of the A.D.H.D., or dyslexia, or whatever you want to call it, but I know how to come up with stuff to bring it together.

  Hank Williams III

  School, Wish, Together

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• The best pay off in the world is when someone comes up to you and says, 'your music has helped me with some pretty rough times through life. I don't know if I would still be here if it was for your music whether it be country music or heavy metal has done for me.' That's ultimately the biggest payoff for me. I hear it from young kids to military guys and military women to older folks.

  Hank Williams III

  Country, Military, Kids

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• I'm capable offstage of having some dark, twisted thoughts but the kind of things I like to do onstage are just more conceptual and I don't even think of them as being clean. I don't sit down and think, "Man, I'm going to come up with some lily-white comedy!" They're just things that I like to talk about, and then at the end of the day you think, "Well, I guess that was clean" but it's not the focus.

  Brian Regan

  Dark, Men, Thinking

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• Being large and muscular, you are not taken very seriously as an actor. When bigger roles come up and the actor needs to be muscular they tend to cast a regular sized actor and get him to hit the weight program as opposed to hiring an actor who's already muscular and developed in that area.

  James Preston Rogers

  Taken, Needs, Roles

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