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“[A comic book writers' union] will never happen. Someone will always be willing to write Batman for free. ... You sit at a bar with an editor at a show and you see 19 people come up and pitch ideas at them. If everybody writing the top 20 books all quit and demanded, 'Union now, union forever,' those 19 guys would be getting phone calls. There will never be a union. I think things are getting better - I bet things have never been so good - but there will never be a union.”

Author:Mae West

“I've learned over a period of years there are setbacks when you come up against the immovable object; sometimes the object doesn't move.”

Years Sometimes Moving Objects Periods Come Up I've Learned Setback

Author:Coleman Young

“The history of the Web so far says that we are highly motivated to come up with ways to make sense of a world richer and more interesting than the constrained resources of the traditional media let on.”

World Way Interesting Media Internet Resources Come Up Traditional Make Sense Motivated

Author:Andrew Keen

“Well, I think finding the weapons of mass destruction is going to be quite time consuming. I know we've uncovered some documents, we'll have to exploit them, and we're going to have to blanket a country the size of California and search, I think, quite rigorously, but we'll come up with them.”

“People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.”

People Humor Mother Saws Stage Performances Come Up Sense Of Humor Hairstyles

Author:Lorna Luft

“We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!”

Ideas War Real Use Problem Force Views Wonder Enemy Weapons Solutions Experience Blame Defeat Come Up Opposition Zone Lasting Problem Solving Competing Session War Zones

Author:Margaret J. Wheatley

“The sun would come up over the ocean, and we'd be eating scrambled eggs before we shot some stuff. It was a vacation in the sense that it was the best working conditions.”

Stuff Sun Conditions Ocean Eating Shots Come Up Eggs Vacation Ice Cream Scrambled Eggs Working Conditions

Author:Marguerite Moreau

“One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right one.”

Should Ideas Willing Come Up Brilliant Dozen Brilliant Ideas

Author:James Gunn

“I usually just pick a genre of movie that I feel like saluting and then go off and come up with something that I can sort of pay homage to. That's the great thing about our show is we've sort of created a landscape for 'Psych' where we're kind of allowed to go off and give shout-outs to movies that we love, genres that we love.”

Love Giving Feels Kind I Can Shows Age Pay Picks Come Up Great Things Landscape Genre Homage Psych

Author:James Roday

“Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street, same portraits.”

Streets Photographer Photograph Come Up Portraits Accused Imitating Brooms

Author:Minor White

“Now where people are - at least the people I talk to - they are focused on issues of trust. Accountability also comes up, to make sure that this doesn't happen again.”

People Happens Talking Issues Come Up Focused Accountability

Author:William P. Leahy

“I'm an unorthodox type of guy, a funny guy - at least I think I'm funny. And one of the things I like to do is come up with nicknames for myself.”

Thinking Funny Guy Type Come Up Nicknames Unorthodox Type Of Guy Funny Guy

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“I don't have an idea for a play until after I've finished writing it. I write first, and come up with what it's about later. My technique could be compared to having a large canvas and coming in every day and putting a dot on it somewhere, and after several years - literally - I begin to say, That reminds me of an elephant, so I think I'll make it one.”

Thinking Writing Years Firsts Ideas Play Come Up Finished Technique Crafts Canvas Elephants Dots

Author:Wallace Shawn

“My birthplace was California, but I couldn't forget Armenia, so what is one's country? Is it land of the earth, in a specific place? Rivers there? Lakes? The sky there? The way the moon comes up there? And the sun? Is one's country the trees, the vineyards, the grass, the birds, the rocks, the hills and summer and winter? Is it the animal rhythm of the living there? The huts and houses, the streets of cities, the tables and chairs, and the drinking of tea and talking? Is it the peach ripening in summer heat on the bough? Is it the dead in the earth there?”

“I mean People come up and ask for autographs or say hi but they wont bug you.”

People Life Inspirational Mean Asks Inspirational Life Come Up Bugs Autographs Mean People

Author:John Lennon

“Before music videos first came out, you’d listen to a song with headphones on, sitting in a beanbag chair with your eyes closed, and you’d come up with your own visions, these things that came from within. Then all of a sudden, sometimes even the very first time you heard a song, it was with these visual images attached, and it robbed you of any form of self-expression.”

Firsts Self Sometimes Eye Form Song Vision Heard Expression Sitting First Time Come Up Video Visuals Chairs Self Expression Headphones Visual Images

Author:Eddie Vedder

“So when I appear as a kind of shamanistic figure, or allude to it, I do it to stress my belief in other priorities and the need to come up with a completely different plan for working with substances. For instance, in places like universities, where everyone speaks so rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear.”

Needs Kind Different Belief Speak Plans Figures Stress University Come Up Priorities Instance Substance

Book:Warhol/Beuys/Polke

Source: Warhol/Beuys/Polke

“Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.”

Ifs Way Found Lucky Come Up Obstacles Another Way

Author:PJ Harvey

“But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere.”

Years Helping Song Roles Skills Guitar Come Up Rhythm I've Learned Melody Vocal

Author:Krist Novoselic

“When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in cliches. That doesn't make them laughable; it's something tender about them. As though in struggling to reach what's most personal about them they could only come up with what's most public.”

People Important Struggle Come Up Cliche Laughable

Author:Terrence Malick

“With any other celebrity, people come up and say, 'Hey, I really like your work.' But with my fans, when they see me, they don't even say hello. They just go, 'AWWWWWGHGHHHGHGHRRR!'”

People Fans Like You Come Up Hey Hello Really Like You

Author:Sam Kinison

“I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.”

Republican Come Up

Author:Gerrit Smith

“Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make it seem real, you sometimes put your own memories in. Even if it's a character that's very different from you.”

Ifs Writing Ideas Different Real Sometimes Character Stories Seems Order Memories Come Up Real You

Author:Jeffrey Eugenides

“Real knowing comes up when we stand in the appropriate place. But usually we don’t. First we want to understand something according to individual knowledge, prejudice, customs and habits. This means we are standing up in our individual place, not the universal perspective. This egoistic behavior makes it very difficult to see the overall picture. But buddhas and ancestors recommend that we first stand up in the appropriate place. Just stand up, be present in the Universe itself.”

Want Firsts Mean Real Universe Individual Difficult Knowing Perspective Habit Behavior Standing Universal Prejudice Come Up Appropriate Customs Ancestor

Author:Dainin Katagiri

“I have devoted 30 years of research to how creative people live and work, to make more understandable the mysterious process by which they come up with new ideas and new things. [...] If I had to express in one word what makes their personalities different from others, it's complexity. They show tendencies of thought and action that in most people are segregated. They contain contradictory extremes; instead of being an "individual", each of them is a "multitude".”

“I am going to work with Tom Daschle. And I'll work with the Republican leaders and the president to try and come up with something that we can all be proud of.”

Trying President Leader Proud Republican Come Up Toms Be Proud Going To Work

Author:John Breaux

“Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift and seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of brandy round its neck.”

Way Littles Persons Bigs Success Turns Fall Seeing Dog Rounds Come Up Supposed To Be Necks Swiss Brandy

Book:Cockburn Sums Up: An Autobiography

Source: Cockburn Sums Up: An Autobiography

“It was hard telling those kids...that I wasn't going to be there this year. And I knew I was going to miss them. I won't have an opportunity to see them again, unless they stop by the house. Now during the summer, I got lots of notes; kids would stop by the house. I'd be pulling weeds or something and they would come up and give me a hug and say, 'Oh, I can't believe it, this is so wonderful!' and just get very excited about it. It was hard not being in school. I would have loved to have gone back to school.”

Giving Years Believe I Can Hard Kids School Opportunity House Space Gone Wonderful Missing Summer Give Me Notes Come Up Excited Weed Hug Pulling Pulling Weeds

Author:Christa McAuliffe

“Of course you can do it. It doesn't require brilliance. It's just giving yourself permission and then being persistent. Persistent in seeing the problem or opportunity and persistent in thinking about it until you have come up with some interesting ideas that might change the pattern. It's really a mindset, not anything in the objective world - that is the problem.”

“Can someone explain the vitriol whenever Ayn Rand comes up? 'Atlas' is the greatest motivator for the individual that I can imagine.”

I Can Individual Imagine Come Up Atlas

Author:Rob Lowe

“Craft takes time, and therefore it is luxury. You cannot do an amazingly well-made garment without taking time—not just the time it takes to make something but also the time it took the maker to come up with the idea. That is all luxury, and that has been lost because were trying to make things faster and faster, cheaper and cheaper. The consumer tends to lose track of what luxury is.”

Trying Wells Has Beens Made Ideas Lost Loses Track Come Up Crafts Luxury Faster Consumers Makers Take Time Garments Cheaper

Author:Isabel Toledo

“Also, if you have an accident, you can't start to dance again at the top, you're too weak; you start with the easy things - the way you did them when you were young, and come up up up, the way you did then.”

Ifs Way Young Easy Weak Come Up Accidents Easy Things

Author:Ninette de Valois

“Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.”

Race Conversation Come Up Detroit

Author:Julie Mehretu

“If I go out with no make-up and a tracksuit on, nobody comes up to me. And if they do, I won't do a photo because I wouldn't want any photographic evidence.”

Ifs Want Evidence Come Up

Author:Paloma Faith

“Once you come up with a premise, you have to work out how it all happened. It's a bit like coming up with a spectacular roof design first. Before you can get it up there, you need to build a solid foundation and supporting structure.”

Needs Firsts Bits Happened Design Foundation Structure Come Up Work Out Roof Spectacular Premises Solid Foundation

Author:Linwood Barclay

“Ever since ADCC 2003 people come up to me and say, 'Did you see your bracket? It's the toughest one there is!' And I always reply with 'I didn't even look.' It's always the tough- est bracket, but thank God I al- ways win it.”

People Way Looks Winning Tough Come Up Als Thank God Brackets

Author:Marcelo Garcia

“I would encourage people to realize that you don't have to panic if you're not part of a mainstream, or if you find yourself outside the flow. If it doesn't suit you, don't go along with it. Just sit it out and get your stuff done. Don't just sit moaning or getting drunk—I spent some years doing that. But if you can just come up with something of your own, however minor it is, that's going to be easier to live with when you're at the end of your life.”

People Ifs Years Ends Done Stuff Realizing Easier Flow Come Up Suits Drunk Finding Yourself Mainstream Panic Minors Moaning Getting Drunk Suits You

Author:Robert Wyatt

“The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.”

People Want Trying Firsts Ideas Reason Bigs Fall Waiting Stage Ought Come Up Retiring Dropping Embarrassment Hints

Author:Garrison Keillor

“I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.”

Littles Come Up Rhyme Firecracker

Author:Garrison Keillor

“In that moment, when watches and clocks misbehave and you feel a cold vapor wrap itself around your heart, you unconsciously draw a line at the bottom of a long column of numbers and come up with a sum. Perhaps it's one that fills you with contentment and endows you with a level of courage and an acceptance that you didn't know you possessed.Or maybe not.”

Knows Feels Heart Long Moments Lines Levels Numbers Watches Acceptance Cold Draws Bottom Come Up Clock Contentment That Moment Possessed Wraps Columns Vapor

Book:The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel

Source: The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel

“I always try and come up with a clear theme when I'm making a videogame.”

Trying Clear Come Up Theme Videogame

Author:Shigeru Miyamoto

“Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on a good day, my rapper side will jump in and start the writing process - maybe come up with a hook or start a verse. Sometimes it just happens like that. A song like 'Lights Please' happens like that.”

Writing Sometimes Light Happens Song Process Sides Please Beats Come Up Producers Rapper Verses Writing Process Hook Good Day

Author:J. Cole

“When you come up in the slums, having nothin make you humble”

Come Up Humble Slums

Author:Kevin Gates

“I find it very fascinating that one person or a group of people can get together as a choir and come up with a song that ends up inspiring people to create emotions, love and togetherness. Communication, which comes from this idea that sparks off of humanity and becomes something that is cherished and loved by the people, is very fascinating to me.”

People Persons Ideas Ends Together Song Humanity Emotion Groups Communication Come Up Fascinating Sparks Togetherness Get Together Choir That One Person

Author:Damian Marley

“However, those who have used those words use half the sentence to fit their purpose, which, of course, I believe is to discredit me and the new Nation of Islam that has come up around me.”

Believe Use Used Purpose Courses I Believe Nations Half Fit Islam Come Up Sentences Discredit Nation Of Islam

Author:Louis Farrakhan

“Intelligence reports say Castro is very worried about me. I'm very worried that we can't come up with something to justify his worrying.”

War Worry Cold Come Up Worried Reports Justify Cold War Castro

Book:The Reagan Diaries

Source: The Reagan Diaries

“When I'm shouting at the defence, subtitles come up in front of the goal.”

Goal Player Fronts Football Come Up Soccer Defence Shouting Subtitles

Author:Shay Given

“The TMS is evolving into a logistics platform that can handle all nodes, all geographies and all transportation nodes. It's already talking to other applications in the supply chain, like warehouse management, order management and ERP systems. By adding underlying algorithms, a TMS can now understand the relationship between the cost of inventory and the cost of transportation and come up with an optimal solution to answer those questions.”

Order Answers Talking Cost Solutions Management Come Up Handle Chains Evolve Application Platforms Geography Transportation Algorithms Inventory Optimal Warehouse Logistics Supply Chain

Author:John Murphy

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