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Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting. — Henry Adams
I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole! — Benjamin Disraeli
When I was in top 40 bands, I always had to learn new material and new styles. — Babyface
It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything on top of… — Jerry Kramer
I had a coach that was not a great player, but he taught with kids and juniors so that by the time he was 50… — Guy Forget
You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the… — George Bernard Shaw
Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle. — Mignon McLaughlin
I had a .200 lifetime batting average in the major leagues, which tied me with another sports great averaging 200 or better for a ten-year… — Bob Uecker
Hitting at the top of the order is a good thing. You get more at-bats. I'm excited to see how this develops. — Chase Utley
Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there at the sandpile at Sunday School. — Robert Fulghum
London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other. — Jeanette Winterson
Our top focus - protecting our Nation - must go beyond homeland preparedness; America will only be secure if we deal with threats before they… — Bill Frist
Foreign diplomats could have modeled their conduct on the way the Negro postmen, Pullman porters, and dining car waiters of Roxbury [Massachusetts] acted, striding around… — Malcolm X
I never thought that I'd be considered to have a good body. I was bony up top and kind of dumpy on the bottom. — Gwyneth Paltrow
Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak… — John Burroughs
I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace with technological and… — Leonard Bernstein
In government, the scum rises to the top. — Friedrich August von Hayek
If you're laboring up a steep hill, imagine that a towrope is attached to the center of your chest, pulling you steadily toward the top. — Jeff Galloway
We think that diamonds are very important, gold is very important, all these minerals are very important. We call them precious minerals, but they are… — Wangari Maathai
If you want to dance on a bar top, some of us will fall off the bar top. Some people will die as a result… — Vivian Balakrishnan
I think people use fame as an excuse to lose their faith. Faith is obviously my number one priority and I think you need to… — Sadie Robertson
When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them with his arms… — W. Somerset Maugham
Jim Thorpe is someone I've always loved. He was an Olympic athlete, you know, and a football player from back in the day. I'd love… — Channing Tatum
Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that organization… — Nicholas Negroponte
I've signed dicks, asses, parole cards, a colostomy bag while it was still pumping. A couple of years ago, I signed a bloody Tampax. That's… — John Waters

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