Quotes with top-heavy

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  • Voltaire What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Raymond Chandler What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Bonnie Tyler When I did the video for 'Holding Out For A Hero,' we filmed that on top of the Grand Canyon, and that was quite frightening. I was close to the edge, and there was a helicopter hovering about, creating a lot of wind, and I was nervous I was going to fall off.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Bill Buford When I was at Babbo, I was covered in scars and scabs and burned bits - melted hair, ribbed burns I got reaching across the top of a hot skillet... I sliced off the tip of my finger. I cleaved my forehead - a deep, ugly wound. Luckily, it regenerated.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Brenda Song When I was first approached for 'Pass the Plate,' I was thrilled because I love to cook. And I love to cook healthy. The reason I started cooking was because I would go to restaurants and have just amazing food but feel so heavy and gross. I would go home and try to cook the same thing, but a healthy version.
    Brenda Song
    American actress (1988 - )
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  • Ted Danson When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.
    Ted Danson
    American actor, author and producer (1947 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz When you look at a company that's already succeeded or is at the very top of its game, it isn't necessarily when it's executing well. It tends to be peacetime - you've defeated the competition, you have the highest margins, the highest multiple.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Bill Hader When you're at your absolute, most exhausted... That's when you have to be at the top of your game.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Bonnie Bedelia Whenever there's heavy-duty emotional work to be done, they call me. As for playing the completely off-the-wall, sexy, gorgeous lady that I am - no, they don't think of me.
    Bonnie Bedelia
    American actress (1948 - )
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  • Angela Merkel Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Denis Waitley Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Barbara Mikulski Women leading means that Congress is working to create jobs, make quality child care more affordable and strengthen the middle class because we understand that America grows the economy and opportunity from the middle out, not the top down.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Ben Wheatley You can muscle your way to the top as long as you're part of the production, which I am. I'm knitted into the money, so it's very hard to extricate me from the decision-making dynamic.
    Ben Wheatley
    English filmmaker and screenwriter (1972 - )
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  • Bob Anderson You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.
    Bob Anderson
     
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  • Sam Levenson You can't start at the top.
    Sam Levenson
    American author (1911 - 1980)
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  • C. A. R. Hoare You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up.
    C. A. R. Hoare
    British computer scientist
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  • Audre Lorde You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Ben Wheatley You really have to be careful with the clues you lay into the film - if they're too heavy-handed, or you've pandered to a slightly stupider audience, then you've spoiled it for the people who are even slightly smart.
    Ben Wheatley
    English filmmaker and screenwriter (1972 - )
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