Bottom Quotes - Page 6

• We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines ... Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.

  Jeff Bezos

  Positive, Impact, Important

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• Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can.

  Stanley Crouch

  Dresses, Trash, Armstrong

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• Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities.

  Armstrong Williams

  Successful, Opportunity, World

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• People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.

  Nigel Kneale

  Believe, People, Flying

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• We measured our success not just by how much money we made, but by how much we contributed to the community. It was a two-part bottom line.

  Jerry Greenfield

  Two, Community, Lines

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• The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.

  Sean Penn

  Wife, Lines, Love Your Wife

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• Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

  Colin Powell

  Zero, Military, Heart

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• I think space exploration is very important. I think there is very intelligent life on Mars. I believe that Martians are spying on us from the bottom of the ocean.

  Annabella Sciorra

  Believe, Ocean, Intelligent

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• At the bottom, the elimination of spyware and the preservation of privacy for the consumer are critical goals if the Internet is to remain safe and reliable and credible.

  Cliff Stearns

  Goal, Safety, Privacy

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• I've made films that I've given all I had to, that no one has seen. The bottom line is I want to work and I want someone to enjoy it.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Lines, Want, Film

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• The bottom string is tuned to an open G.

  Jules Shear

  Strings

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• On tight money: It reflects a reversion to the old idea that the tree can be fertilized at the top instead of at the bottom - the old trickle-down theory.

  Harry S. Truman

  Ideas, Tree, Theory

  Harry S. Truman, Ralph Keyes (1995). “Wit and wisdom of Harry Truman”, Harpercollins

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• For me, the best characters are the ones that feel fully formed inside and out, so I try to have a very clear vision of exactly what they would wear, top to bottom, who they are, what their backstory is, what their family situation is, who are their friends, just creating as much of a three-dimensional character [as possible]. Because I think you could do a very broad character, but as long as there's some emotional truth to them you can get away with really crazy things.

  Nick Kroll

  Crazy, Character, Emotional

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces.

  Henry Adams

  Struggle, Men, Modern

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 28 (1907)

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• Everything you say; every thought you entertain; and everything you do has a direction, which serves as an advance or a retreat in respect to your pursuit of excellence. Everything, regardless of size or intent, has bottom-line consequences; therefore, everything counts - this is the golden rule of excellence.

  Gary Ryan

  Excellence, Lines, Golden

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• It seems to me absolutely true, that our world, which appears to us the surface of all things, is really the bottom of a deep ocean: all our trees are submarine growths, and we are weird, scaly-clad submarine fauna, feeding ourselves on offal like shrimps. Only occasionally the soul rises gasping through the fathomless fathoms under which we live, far up to the surface of the ether, where there is true air.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Ocean, Our World, Air

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3924, Delphi Classics

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• Grace-driven effort wants to get to the bottom of behavior, not just manage behavior. If you're simply managing behavior but not removing the roots of that behavior, then the weeds simply sprout up in another place.

  Matt Chandler

  Weed, Roots, Effort

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• A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that's the bottom line.

  Quincy Jones

  Song, Three, World

  "Quincy Jones Recalls 'Freaking Out' at Michael Jackson's Death and His Private Nickname for the Star (Q&A)". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 11, 2015.

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• Prison is, simply put, the bottom rung of the welfare ladder.

  Stephen Reid

  Ladders, Prison, Welfare

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• I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would confess, that, at the bottom of their nature, their instincts, their sensations, their obtuse intelligence, assisted by organs less perfect than ours, there is a clouded, secret sentiment of this existence of a superior and primordial Being, from whom all emanates, and to whom all returns.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Dog, Horse, Elephants

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1850). “Lamartine on Atheism: Atheism Among the People”, p.11

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• Coasting to the bottom is the only disgrace.

  John Popper

  Disgrace

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• My landlord lives in the flat at the bottom of the stairs. I rent a studio flat from him, and live at the top of the staircase. There are two more flights of stairs and four more flats, but it’s me he is obsessed with.

  Craig Stone

  Two, Four, Flight

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• Bottom is bottom, even if it is turned upside down.

  Bill Vaughan

  Upside Down, Ifs

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• I also am not particularly risk-averse - I don't mind jumping off a cliff if I trust the people who've told me they'll catch me at the bottom.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Jumping, People, Risk

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Gravity has taken over me from time to time. But otherwise than that, I'm blessed with good health. That's the bottom line.

  Betty White

  Blessed, Taken, Lines

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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