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• The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Change, Team

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• For a long time I wanted to draw, but I could never get the proportions right. My still life sketches were the artistic equivalent of someone who has misjudged the space constraints of a postcard, the handwriting shrinking uncomfortably at the bottom.

  Sloane Crosley

  Space, Long, Shrinking

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• My mom is always telling me it takes a long time to get to the top, but a short time to get to the bottom.

  Miley Cyrus

  Mom, Mother, Long

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• At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.

  Howard Dean

  Change, People, Beliefs And Values

  "Bio: Howard Dean". www.foxnews.com. August 27, 2003.

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• Record companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records.

  Mos Def

  Dream, Records, Lines

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• We hide so well. This is the bottom line: how hidden is male subjectivity? Name five books where male subjectivity is produced in an honest way.

  Junot Diaz

  Book, Names, Males

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.

  Dick Durbin

  Veterans Day, Illinois, Speech

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• The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family's positive moments and your ability to bounce back from the difficult ones. That act alone may increase the odds that your family will thrive for many generations to come.

  Bruce Feiler

  Odds, Generations, Stories

  "Telling Our Stories" by Rabbi David Wolkenfeld, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 1, 2013.

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• One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Life, Looks, Charm

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• Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Heart, Blessing

  "Pope Francis Wants 'Poor Church And Church For The Poor'". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 16, 2013.

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• I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

  Lady Gaga

  Nyu, House, Parent

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Tony Blair will be remembered for nothing other than that he followed George W. Bush over a cliff; took the rest of us with them, and we haven't yet reached the bottom, I'm afraid.

  George Galloway

  Cliffs, Blair, Remembered

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• The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Tree, African American, Lines

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• So, Mexico, Brazil, they wanted their national culture to be 'blackish' - really brown, a beautiful brown blend. And finally, I discovered that in each of these societies the people at the bottom are the darkest skinned with the most African features.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Beautiful, People, Culture

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• Companies in the East put a lot more emphasis on human relationships, while those from the West focus on the product, the bottom line. Westerners appear to have more of a need for achievement, while in the East there's more need for affiliation.

  Daniel Goleman

  Achievement, Focus, East

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• The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company's bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy.

  Daniel Goleman

  Impact, Research And Development, Environmental

  "How Daniel Goleman Is Changing Our Ideas About Living Green". Interview with Aimee Lee Ball, www.oprah.com. April, 2009.

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• The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.

  Brian Greene

  Law, Lines, Physics

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• I've got an image of me at the bottom of my garden sitting under my silver birch tree reading, while everyone else had gone somewhere exotic.

  Geri Halliwell

  Reading, Garden, Tree

  "Geri blossoms". Interview with Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2007.

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• Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

  Nhat Hanh

  Rising Up, Focus, Storm

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• I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.

  David Hockney

  Spring, Space, Tree

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• I think therapy is a helpful thing. I think everyone knows it. You do it for your life, you do it for yourself, because you want to explore some things, and get at the bottom of some things. It's about your life, the quality of your life.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Thinking, Quality, Want

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• It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Would Be, Individual, Internals

  Zora Neale Hurston (1969). “Dust tracks on a road”

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• I mean, sometimes... a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing.

  Eddie Izzard

  Mean, Comedian, Acting

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• I used to live in a gap jumper, tracksuit bottoms and a fake flower in my hair. Shocking.

  Jessie J

  Flower, Hair, Fake

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.

  Bo Jackson

  Basketball, Soccer, Sports

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