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• I mean, sometimes... a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing.

  Eddie Izzard

  Mean, Comedian, Acting

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• I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.

  Bo Jackson

  Basketball, Soccer, Sports

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• If you're going to win games, you're going to have to come up with the big hits. That's the bottom line.

  Derek Jeter

  Motivational, Sports, Winning

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• The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company's bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy.

  Daniel Goleman

  Impact, Research And Development, Environmental

  "How Daniel Goleman Is Changing Our Ideas About Living Green". Interview with Aimee Lee Ball, www.oprah.com. April, 2009.

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• Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone's life, that's the ultimate vision, that's the ultimate goal - bottom line.

  Ray Lewis

  Inspirational, Football, Integrity

  "NFL All-Pro Ray Lewis". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 11, 2011.

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• Bottom line, your body is a temple, and you have to treat it that way. That's how God designed it.

  Ray Lewis

  Inspirational, Way, Temples

  "Hungry for another title, Ravens' Lewis watches diet". Interview with Jarrett Bell, usatoday30.usatoday.com. January 15, 2012.

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• The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Musician, Lines, Bottom

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• The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Tree, African American, Lines

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• The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Real, Editors, Lines

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• The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family's positive moments and your ability to bounce back from the difficult ones. That act alone may increase the odds that your family will thrive for many generations to come.

  Bruce Feiler

  Odds, Generations, Stories

  "Telling Our Stories" by Rabbi David Wolkenfeld, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 1, 2013.

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• Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.

  Madeleine Albright

  Dragons, Laughing, Stories

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• The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Inspirational, Eye, Leader

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• Bottom line is, if you turn the ball over to a team that isn't as good, you then have brought them up to your level.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Team, Nfl, Balls

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• One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line.

  William J. Clinton

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Ethos

  Clinton, William J. (1999). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1998”, p.170, Best Books on

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• The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Change, Team

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• Record companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records.

  Mos Def

  Dream, Records, Lines

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• We hide so well. This is the bottom line: how hidden is male subjectivity? Name five books where male subjectivity is produced in an honest way.

  Junot Diaz

  Book, Names, Males

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

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• The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

  Arthur Erickson

  Art, Expression, Design

  Arthur Erickson's Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.

  Arthur Erickson

  Expression, Lines, Source

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• There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business, but are essential to governing, like keeping a kid in school or helping someone get and hold a job. The value of those skills can't easily be measured against a bottom line.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Jobs, School, Kids

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• Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you're supposed to be.

  Joel Osteen

  Powerful, Destiny, Stronger

  "Joel Osteen explains the mysteries of unexpected blessings in 'Break Out!'". www.today.com. October 2, 2013.

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• The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and the vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. Loving makes love. Loving makes itself. We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love. Wouldn't that be the way to make love stay?

  Tom Robbins

  Creating, People, Perfect

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.122, Bantam

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• Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it's harder to break out than ever.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Break Out, Each Day, Examination

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• No one’s personal life is in the public interest. It’s gossip, bottom line. End of story.

  Kevin Spacey

  Gossip, Stories, Lines

  "Kevin Spacey On His New Film Casino Jack: Interview and Trailer". Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.thedailybeast.com. December 14, 2010.

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• I'm sure there's a right way and there's a wrong way. The bottom line is you have to do what you think is right.

  Mike Singletary

  Thinking, Lines, Way

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