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"Is that a stake, Bones, or are you just happy with my new dress?” “In this case, it’s a stake. You could always feel around for something more, though. See what comes up."
"Scientists and artists are both living in the cultural milieu that they come up in. They're always responding to what is happening culturally."
"The manager who comes up with the right solution to the wrong problem is more dangerous than the manager who comes up with the wrong solution to the right problem."
"Don't criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one."
"But where do we come up with this notion of a woman in which the less space you take up, the more you're worth?"
"You've got to grab every opportunity that comes up."
"That's the beauty of life, the uncertainty that we experience, literally, as we go about our day-to-day activities. We're not certain of anything, so fear comes up very often. Fear comes naturally."
"It's in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I'll write it down in case it comes up again, I'll be certain to avoid it."
"Offers come up, but I'm still fighting for jobs and auditioning and being rejected."
"Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up."
"Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him."
"The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one."
"People can never work out where they know me from. They just come up and chat with me like mates."
"Have a similar outlook as a monarch. A ruler is not reluctant to come up short. Disappointment is an alternate steppingstone to significance."
"If someone comes up to me, 90 percent of the time it's about Office Space."
"I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just... wouldn't have come up out of the water."
"I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system."
"I think part of what has to happen, somewhere, pretty soon, is that a human template has to come up. We have to start with, OK let's throw out all this other stuff, everything we have thought about it before, throw out all our models, and start with a human. What is a human?"
"Challenges are opportunities for me to grow. The more I learn, the more equipped I am to handle whatever situations come up."
