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• It's not easy, though, singing upside down in a headstand on a raised platform with your unfettered breasts hitting you in the chin.

  Adrienne Barbeau

  Singing, Hitting, Easy

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

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• When Tony Benn became a minister in the 1960s -- and I think this must be apocryphal -- he had a huge map of Britain hung upside down in his office, so the channel was at the top and Scotland was at the bottom and, apparently, he said, "This is how we need to look at this country, with the money and the power draining by force of gravity out of the south east." That was a great idea. I rather liked him for that. I don't know if it's actually true or not.

  Neal Ascherson

  Country, Thinking, Scotland

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• The person who runs FEMA is someone who must have the trust of the president because the person who runs FEMA is the first voice oftentimes of someone whose life has been turned upside down here's from.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Humor, Voice

  "Crossfire" with Paul Begala and Robert Novak, www.cnn.com. August 7, 2002.

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• The people in Louisiana must know that all across our country there's a lot of prayer - prayer for those whose lives have been turned upside down. And I'm one of them.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Prayer, People

  George W. Bush Participates in Briefing at Emergency Operations Center, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. September 3, 2008.

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• The miracles of Jesus are signs of the right order of things. Jesus was not so much turning things upside down as turning them rightside up or, at least, giving his followers glimpses of the rightside up. The miracles of healing, deliverance, provision, and resurrection all reveal that God, through Jesus, is making all things new, that he is restoring what once was unbroken.

  Matt Chandler

  Jesus, Healing, Order

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• It was here we turned the coffee cups upside down. And your eyes and the moon swept the valley.

  Carl Sandburg

  Coffee, Eye, Moon

  Carl Sandburg (2000). “Cornhuskers”, p.47, Courier Corporation

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• It is a bizarre world. It is an upside down, inside out, quantum physics world. It is the eve of destruction in America.

  Glenn Beck

  America, World, Physics

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• Your goal is to achieve the best results by following their wishes. If they want you to build a house upside down standing on its chimney, it's up to you to do it.

  Richard Morris Hunt

  Hunting, Goal, House

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• The hardest thing in the world is being a critic of your own work. For me time has always been the best critic. If I can put something away and then come back, it's like taking a painting you're working on, turning it upside down, squinting at it, or walking away to get a new view. Time helps you know whether it's worth saving or whether it should be dumped.

  Karla Kuskin

  Walking Away, Views, Squinting

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• We have plenty to learn from the numerous ants. Sawako Nakayasu-writer, antologist, Baudelaire's sister-turns daily life inside out and upside down then puts it into perfect little boxes. Here we follow the lines of black legged, syntactical units-the words-as they cross and they tickle the heart of the matter with us.

  John Granger

  Heart, Perfect, Black

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• That's typical Gabrielle, ... Marc has a very clever plan for this pregnancy. It's going to turn her world upside down

  Eva Longoria

  Clever, Pregnancy, Typical

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• Much of American wealth is an illusion which is being secretly gnawed away and much of it will be completely wiped out in the near future....So what is the rest of your future? A grisly list of unpleasant events -- exploding inflation, price controls, erosion of your savings (eventually to nothing), a collapse of private as well as government pension programs, and eventually an international monetary holocaust which will sweep all paper currencies down the drain and turn the world upside down.

  Howard Ruff

  Erosion, Government, Holocaust

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• Floating in the void free of gravity I made my way along the side of the ship. I listened to my own breaths. It was so dark and I was so weightless that I had to look for my bubbles to be sure which way was up. I swam backward a little away from the boat and into outer space and waved my arm through the water. Sure enough the phosphorescents appeared trailing my movement like the tail of a shooting star. I let myself tip upside down and floated there watching the gentle snowstorm marveling that a world of such strangeness existed here all the time just under the surface.

  Elisabeth Eaves

  Stars, Dark, Space

  Elisabeth Eaves (2011). “Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents”, p.208, Seal Press

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• For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.

  Lucretius

  And Love, Sound, Phrases

  Lucretius (2008). “On the Nature of the Universe”, p.90, OUP Oxford

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• I tell you, my friends, it's a sin to pray for the USA. And nobody that's intelligent, and that fears God, will fly the American flag any way but upside-down, the international signal of distress... It's too late to pray for the USA.

  Fred Phelps

  Intelligent, Way, Too Late

  "God Hates America". WBC Download Center, September 14, 2001.

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• Software touches all of these different things you use, and tech companies are revolutionizing all different areas of the world...from how we shop to how farming works, all these things that aren't technical are being turned upside down by software. So being able to play in that universe really makes a difference.

  Drew Houston

  Play, Differences, Making A Difference

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• If you do a character, always make the character with a big question mark. Even if the character is very enigmatic and all over the place, make him always with a question mark, because if you turn a question mark upside down, like they do in South America in Spanish, then it becomes a hook.

  Peter Stormare

  Character, America, Hook

  Source: collider.com

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• The bluebells made such a pool that the earth had become like water, and all the trees and bushes seemed to have grown out of the water. And the sky above seemed to have fallen down on to the earth floor; and I didn’t know if the sky was the earth or the earth was water. I had been turned upside down. I had to hold the rock with my fingernails to stop me falling into the sky of the earth or the water of the sky. But I couldn’t hold on.

  Graham Joyce

  Fall, Rocks, Sky

  Graham Joyce (2012). “Some Kind of Fairy Tale”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.

  Georg Baselitz

  Painting, Objects, Suitable

  Georg Baselitz (2010). “Georg Baselitz: Collected Writings and Interviews”

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• I'm always hiding the books in my closet, and my art's always turned upside down in my drawer.

  Daniel Clowes

  Art, Book, Hiding

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2011.

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• We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down.

  Angelina Grimke

  World, World Upside Down, Abolition

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• One's task is not to turn the world upside down, but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Reality, World, Tasks

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1965). “Ethics”

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• The autumn wind is a Raider, / Pillaging just for fun; / He'll knock you around, / And upside down, / And laugh when he's conquered and won.

  Steve Sabol

  Fun, Autumn, Wind

  "Steve Sabol, Cinematic Force for N.F.L., Dies at 69" by Douglas Martin, www.nytimes.com. September 18, 2012.

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• And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by lives we did not choose.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Quotation Marks, Ends, This Life

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• Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly and wants to rip to shreds all your erroneous notions of the truth that make you fight within yourself, dear one, and with others, causing the world to weep on too many fine days... The Beloved sometimes wants to do us a great favor: Hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.

  Hafez

  Faith, Rip, Inspiration

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