Quotes with tops-down

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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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  • Aaron Copland You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
    Aaron Copland
    American composer and writer (1900 - 1990)
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  • Brendan Coyle You get a lot of people requesting photographs but I tend to keep myself to myself, pull my cap down.
    Brendan Coyle
    English-Irish actor (1962 - )
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  • Bob Dylan You got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down, you just stood there grinning.
    Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Charles III You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.
    Charles III
    King of the United Kingdom since 2022 (1948 - )
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  • Carol Burnett You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.
    Carol Burnett
    American actress, comedian, singer, and writer (1933 - )
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, 'Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let's just sit down and begin to talk peace.'
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Bea Arthur You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there.
    Bea Arthur
    American actress and comedian (1922 - 2009)
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  • Barry McGuire You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Buddy Hackett You look up at drama, down at comedy. A singer, looking up is okay. A comic, it's death.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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  • Mary Pickford You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ''Failure'' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
    Mary Pickford
    Canadian film and theater actress and film producer (1892 - 1979)
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  • Anne Perry You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and start off. I start from what happened, including the why.
    Anne Perry
    English author (1938 - )
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  • Bill Flores You won't find any volatile quotes out in the press where I've run the team down publicly.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Ray Bradbury You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
    Ray Bradbury
    American science-fiction writer (1920 - 2012)
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  • Carl Honore Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Baroness Orczy Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she have not suffered, still less a woman if she have not sinned. Fall at the feet of your idol as you wish, but drag her down to your level after that - the only level she should ever reach, that of your heart.
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  • Walter Bagehot A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • William James A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • William Shakespeare Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William S. Gilbert Down went the owners - greedy men whom hope of gain allured: oh, dry the starting tear, for they were heavily insured.
    William S. Gilbert
    English dramatist, poet and illustrator (1836 - 1911)
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