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Quite honestly, I was running from myself. But I knew how to work Top 40 radio.
Glenn Beck

Work, Knew, Quite

It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind me and I see the steps. That's where I was.
Jeanne Moreau

Behind, Steps, Climbing

The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.
Jeanne Moreau

Life, Down, Reach

Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.
Carly Fiorina

Government, Done, Wrong

You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life.
Maurice Sendak

Life, Through, Wonderful

In 2008, Barack Obama did get Democrats hyperventilating, whipped up to a creamy froth, while John McCain creaked ahead like a cranky granddad whom Republicans let move to the front of the buffet line, deferring to seniority, as they had in 1996, when Bob Dole turtled to the top of the ticket.
James Wolcott

While, Move, Line

I've been a customer of the top venture capital firms, so I know exactly what they do and don't do.
Marc Andreessen

Customer, Venture, Capital

I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.
Rod Stewart

Time, Business, Career

Even tax breaks that are supposed to help the middle class too often skew toward the wealthy. Consider the mortgage interest deduction. While political leaders in both parties have long considered it untouchable, it actually helps those at the top of the income scale far more than those at the bottom.
Dee Dee Myers

Help, Long, Political

Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's great music, great melodies, great hooks. But, on top of it, it's a presentation. There's a showmanship about it. And that's why I wanted to be a pop star.
Adam Lambert

Music, Great, Why

I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.
Ted Turner

Attitude, Today, Everything

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
Arnold Bennett

Down, View, Hill

The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.
Aaliyah

Said, Secret, Matrix

I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'
Cher

Work, Age, Family

It's been amazing to watch, because for 'Thor', which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment.
J. Michael Straczynski

Great, Amazing, Single

Look, I'm in the top 20 of players who ever lived.
Charles Barkley

The three top issues have to be restoring jobs and private sector job growth to our country, getting the entitlement mess under control, and restoring back to our country a sense of self-confidence that Americans can achieve whatever we want to achieve.
Chris Christie

Job, Control, Country

Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.
Venus Williams

Best, End, Focus

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
Barbra Streisand

Success, Half, Ten

In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight.
Tony Blair

Life, Politics, Easy

Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent.
Sheryl Sandberg

Women, Making, State

My mother and I, our favorite part of any baked pasta is the top, where the cheese gets crusty.
Giada De Laurentiis

Mother, Favorite, Cheese

I don't do facials or any of that stuff, but my workout regime does tend to depend on whether I have to take my top off in my next film because otherwise I know I'm too heavy.
Clive Owen

Off, Film, Whether

For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.
David Suzuki

Health, Children, Economic

Feeding our energy appetite is top of mind for many people these days.
David Suzuki

Mind, Energy, Days

Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental effects on water supplies and fewer environmental impacts overall.
David Suzuki

Energy, Water, Priorities

To think that when they come out with these gigantic songs, it's pretty tough to top them, you know.
Sebastian Bach

Pretty, Tough, Songs

Americans' addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes.
Arlen Specter

Great, Sports, Happen

I'd love to do well on a big weekend with people watching and cheering, of course. But it's not fair to create an expectation level before I know what is realistic. I want to finish as well as possible. Is that top 20? Top 15? Top 25? You just have to play it by ear.
Danica Patrick

Love, Before, Play

I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas - not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change.
Patti Smith

Change, Children, Through

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