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• Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Eyes
  • Line
  • Horizon

• When I was a little girl, my dream was just to hear my song on the radio. It was very fascinating to me, and I was like, 'How do I do that?' Now it's like, 'Oh my God, my song is on the radio!'

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • God
  • Song
  • Dream

• I want to do a make-up line for men.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Up
  • Men
  • Want

• I have always focused on the bottom line.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Always
  • Focused
  • Line

• I thought it was a wonderful line - right on the cutting room floor.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Thought
  • Cutting
  • Room

• It turns out that if you're a 24-year-old whose only line on their resume says CEO, you are totally unemployable.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • You
  • Line
  • Resume

• No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Life
  • Age
  • Unique

• I think the bottom line for Oregonians is that cleaner fuels mean cleaner air, and we need that, and we want that.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Think
  • Want
  • Air

• The bottom line is: We must be working on arriving at the destination for which we were put on this planet.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Working
  • Destination
  • Line

• I personally think you can have a really rich and full life with no abs. Abs are for wimps.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Life
  • Think
  • Rich

• I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Family
  • High
  • Society

• Poitier opened the doors to so many artists, not just black artists. There is a line that goes from black to Latin to Asian with regards to roles.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Black
  • Artists
  • Latin

• A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Animal
  • Ears
  • Fence

• I really did love hockey. It was one of my favorite things to do.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Things
  • Really
  • Favorite

• Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Long
  • New
  • Line

• A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • First
  • Line
  • Theme

• I've always straddled a weird line - there's a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider. I'm the outsider who's on the inside.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Weird

• The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line.

  

  Orlando Aloysius Battista
  • You
  • Line
  • Halfway

• When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up to the interpolation for you. Never forget that the effect of a line may depend not on its delivery, but on something said earlier in the play, either by somebody else or by yourself, and that if you change it, it may be necessary to change the whole first act as well.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Effect
  • Line
  • Depend

• Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.

  

  Harlan Stone
  • Democracy
  • Creative
  • Survive

• Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Nation
  • Nations
  • Patriotism

• Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and power and truth.

  

  Jack Gantos
  • Time
  • Book
  • Power

• First Europe, and then the globe, will be linked by flight, and nations so knit together that they will grow to be next-door neighbors. . . . What railways have done for nations, airways will do for the world.

  

  Claude Grahame-White
  • Globe
  • Linked
  • Knit

• An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.

  

  Irvin S. Cobb
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