Top Notch Quotes

• There is nothing more important to our Nation's future, to our homeland security, and to our economy than ensuring we have a top-notch educational system that is the envy of the world.

  Jim Jeffords

  Educational, Envy, Important

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• In this ever-changing world, it's more important than ever that our top-notch military continues to receive the resources needed to serve and protect our country.

  Max Baucus

  Country, Military, Important

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• The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.

  Ken Kesey

  Men, Thinking, Secret

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.42, Hamilton Books

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• Curator Shantrelle P. Lewis left for Amsterdam an Andy Warhol fellow, and came back with a film in her pocket. Please support this confrontation of the Netherlands' violently passive aggressive racist traditions, by an American Southern, aggressive aggressive. She's a top notch thinker and lover of questions.

  dream hampton

  Support, Southern, Pockets

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• Investing is not as tough as being a top-notch bridge player. All it takes is the ability to see things as they really are.

  Warren Buffett

  Player, Bridges, Investing

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• I'm not quite as limber, but for my peers and my age group, I'm still top notch!

  Portia de Rossi

  Age, Groups, Peers

  Source: collider.com

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• You cannot take a few people from one unit, throw them in with some from another, give them someone else's equipment, and hope to come up with a top-notch fighting unit.

  Charles Alvin Beckwith

  Fighting, People, Giving

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• Colin Morgan gives a stunning performance in Parked; he plays Merlin in the BBC TV show and he says the two characters are like night and day. Watch him. He’s got everything it takes to be top notch.

  Colm Meaney

  Character, Night, Tv Shows

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• I absolutely love this. Top notch art and scripting encapsulating a brilliant idea.

  Leinil Francis Yu

  Art, Ideas, Brilliant

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• Antiques to Die For sets the gold standard for the classic contemporary cozy. Agatha-finalist Jane K. Cleland's writing is top-notch; her plotting and pace smooth and assured. This antiquing series is in mint condition!

  Julia Spencer-Fleming

  Writing, Gold, Pace

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• There's no room for failure performing [stand-up] for a black audience. If you don't get them right away it's tough winning them back even if you're doing top-notch material. If you didn't win them right when you walked out there, it's tough.

  Hannibal Buress

  Winning, Black, Rooms

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I really got into Osho's books. I have always loved his books. They were top notch.

  Marianne Williamson

  Book, Notches

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• Spain has some of the richest culinary traditions and truly appreciates food that is simply prepared with top-notch ingredients.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Appreciate, Spain, Ingredients

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• If I ever have a chance to become a top-notch guy on a top team, I think that's more valuable than anything else.

  Jason Spezza

  Team, Thinking, Guy

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• For me as a midfielder, Paul Scholes was the best possible teacher. When people ask me my hardest opponent, I always refer to Paul in training. Facing him improved me so much because his astonishing quality gave me something to aim for. He never gave the ball away, he could nutmeg you, he could make you look a fool, his range of passing was remarkable, his touch and awareness, everything was top notch. Seeing Scholesy made you stand back and realize you had a long way to go, because he was awesome.

  Darren Fletcher

  Teacher, Long, People

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• I loved seeing my name in print, I loved seeing my words in print. I felt really privileged to be in the kind of company I was in at Esquire, but I didn't think it was going to launch a career as a top-notch journalist. It's just not what I wanted.

  Laurence Shames

  Thinking, Names, Careers

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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• Mick Jagger also a music connoisseur and knows everything about that era. So, you knew the music side was going to be top-notch. It's HBO. On Men of Certain Age, if we wanted a song, it would break the bank. But, Vinyl can go all-out.

  Ray Romano

  Song, Men, Hbo

  Source: collider.com

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• Being in New York, a lot of people I knew were top-notch copy editors or photo retouchers, so I had a good community around me that knew how to do the specialized stuff.

  Ian Christe

  New York, Editors, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When we're younger we take our bodies for granted because they're top-notch. You don't always think in the long run.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Running, Thinking, Long

  "Jennifer Aniston on Battling Dry Eyes and the New Herb She Thinks You Should Try". Interview with Sara Gaynes Levy, www.glamour.com. August 26, 2016.

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• The Big L was cold crazy, A top-notch crook snatchin' pocket books from old ladies I told him, "Give up the dough, before you get smoked! Oh you broke? ( *shots* ) Now you're dead broke" My name is L and I'm from a part of town where clowns, Get beat down and all you hear is gunshot sounds 'Cause at nighttime niggas try to tax, they're sneakier than alley cats, that's why I carry gats

  Big L

  Giving Up, Crazy, Book

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• He's laughing me into a stupor, she thought. I could heckle, I suppose, I could throw a bread roll at him, but he's eaten them all. She glanced at the other diners, all of them going into their act, and thought is this what it all boils down to? Romantic love, is this all it is, a talent show? Eat a meal, go to bed, fall in love with me and I promise you years and years of top notch material like this?

  David Nicholls

  Falling In Love, Romantic Love, Love Is

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• The Big L was cold crazy, A top-notch crook snatchin pocket books from old ladies

  Big L

  Crazy, Book, Pockets

  Song: Lifestylez Ov Da Poor and Dangerous, Album: Lifestylez Ov Da Poor and Dangerous, 1995

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• I definitely had a top-notch education.

  Paul Giamatti

  Notches

  "Paul Giamatti: 'I'm clearly not Brad Pitt'" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2009.

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• I hired top-notch people, trusted them to do their jobs, and then came to grips with the fact that I wouldn't be coaching as much.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Jobs

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• Yet one more item is needed to complete success, and that is the rendering of service to others in the community. Without this the mere satisfaction of selfish desire does not reach the top notch.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Success, Selfish, Community

  Robert Baden-Powell (2013). “Playing the Game: A Baden-Powell Compendium”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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