100 Quotes About Come-up

  • Author Jonathan Franzen
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    I don't personally like the e-readers they've come up with so far. I don't fetishize books, but I do like that they're solid and unchanging.

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  • Author Margaret Fuller
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    Man can never come up to his ideal standard. It is the nature of the immortal spirit to raise that standard higher and higher as it goes from strength to strength, still upward and onward. The wisest and greatest men are ever the most modest.

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  • Author Morgan Freeman
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    There are things that I would like to do, but I make a big distinction between liking to do something and wanting to do something. If there's something that I want to do I've done it. If there's something that comes up that I want to do I will do it.

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  • Author Paloma Faith
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    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.

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  • Author Bear Grylls
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    The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it.

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  • Author Maggie Gyllenhaal
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    I don't even notice the advertisement that comes up on my screen. I'm a smart person and it's just something I've just blacked out because it doesn't seem right to me.

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  • Author Ricky Gervais
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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?

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