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“The bottom line is that female writers aren't being given enough opportunities by male producers.”

Enough Opportunity Given Lines Female Males Bottom Producers Bottom Line Female Writers

Author:Chris O'Dowd

“My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be.”

Should Lines Business Argument Bottom Profit Finance Bloody Bottom Line

Author:Anita Roddick

“The bottom line is, if somebody doesn't go through proper security screening, they're not going to go on the flight.”

Ifs Lines Security Goes On Bottom Flight Bottom Line Screening

Author:John S. Pistole

“If every other store in town is paying workers $9 an hour, one offering $8 will find it hard to hire anyone - perhaps not when unemployment is high, but certainly in normal times. Robust competition is a powerful force helping to ensure that workers are paid what they contribute to their employers' bottom lines.”

Ifs Hard Helping Force Hours Lines Powerful Normal Paid Towns Competition Workers Bottom Stores Offering Unemployment Employers Bottom Line Robust

Author:Christina Romer

“Well, the bottom line is that I'm extremely pleased with 'The Stupids.' I'm pleased that it's coming out, and it should look good. It's nice looking, with the colors and stuff. I made it for kids, and I really would like them to see it.”

Should Wells Looks Made Kids Stuff Lines Nice Color Bottom Made It Coming Out Bottom Line

Author:John Landis

“As far as the anxiety, I have no idea about it. I don't feel like I have any nervousness out there. I'm just a guy who really cares about being competitive and that's the bottom line.”

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Author:Dontrelle Willis

“Bottom line is President Obama has said that it is a top priority of the United States of America to ensure that Iran never achieves a nuclear.”

Said States America President Lines United United States Achieve Bottom Nuclear Priorities Iran President Obama United States Of America Bottom Line Top Priorities

Author:Mitt Romney

“Corporations, in the name of efficiency, suppress variation by "getting all the ducks in line."To optimize productivity, they evolve highly refined and internally consistent operating systems. Payoff - results - as long as the music lasts. But ... all that streamlining and re-engineering limits diversity, suppresses self-organization ... and curtails a bottom up emergent response to disruptive change.”

“I wasn't going to let Jerry Sloan embarrass me, because basketball had a proper role in my life. I suspected my basketball philosophy wasn't the bottom line anyway.”

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Author:John Amaechi

“My bottom line is that monetary policy should react to rising prices for houses or other assets only insofar as they affect the central bank's goal variables - output, employment, and inflation.”

Should House Goal Lines Policy Bottom Employment Rising Assets Inflation Bottom Line Monetary Variables Output Central Banks Monetary Policy Rising Prices

Author:Janet Yellen

“The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.”

Care Lines Patient Bottom Reform Health Care Physicians Bottom Line Health Care Reform

Author:Abraham Verghese

“The people of the United States don't recognize it, but the oil industry has given the greatest gift to the people of the nation, and that gift is the low cost of energy. Bottom line is this enables the country to be very competitive manufacturing-wise and in the world economy.”

People World Country States Energy Given Nations Lines United United States Economy Wise Industry Cost Lows Bottom Oil Bottom Line Manufacturing Greatest Gifts World Economy Oil Industry

Author:Ray L. Hunt

“I am still confused as to why they chose to lie and tried to make me a legend when the real heroics of my fellow soldiers that day were, in fact, legendary. People like Lori Piestewa and First Sergeant Dowdy who picked up fellow soldiers in harm's way. Or people like Patrick Miller and Sergeant Donald Walters who actually fought until the very end. The bottom line is the American people are capable of determining their own ideals of heroes and they don't need to be told elaborate tales.”

People Way Needs Firsts Stills Real Ends Facts Lying Lines Hero Capable Ideals Fellows Bottom Soldier Harm Tales Confused Legends Bottom Line Legendary Sergeants Fellow Soldiers

Author:Jessica Lynch

“Awards are always a pleasant surprise. They are the candy-floss parts of our job - a lovely added extra to attract people's attention. The bottom line is that you want to sell tickets.”

People Want Jobs Lines Attention Sells Surprise Bottom Lovely Pleasant Extras Awards Tickets Candy Bottom Line Pleasant Surprises

Author:Sophie Thompson

“When you have grown accustomed to sitting and meditating, try to stop your thoughts. That's the bottom line in meditative practice.”

Trying Lines Practice Sitting Bottom Accustomed Bottom Line Meditating

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Two to 4% of cancers respond to chemotherapy....The bottom line is for a few kinds of cancer chemo is a life extending procedure-Hodgkin's disease, Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL), Testicular cancer, and Choriocarcinoma.”

Kind Two Lines Disease Bottom Cancer Bottom Line Procedures Extending Chemotherapy Leukemia Testicular Cancer

Author:Ralph W. Moss

“You have to manage money. Particularly with market economies. You may have a great product but if your bottom line goes bust then that's it.”

Ifs May Lines Economy Products Bottom Manage Bottom Line Market Economy

Author:Mukesh Ambani

“I think there are multiple studies now to demonstrate that diversity, a better balance between genders, but also between different fields as well, is actually conducive to better growth, better bottom line, better results.”

Thinking Wells Different Growth Lines Results Study Fields Balance Diversity Bottom Gender Multiple Bottom Line

Author:Christine Lagarde

“It doesn't matter what the income level of your family is, or if English is the first or second language. It makes no difference. The bottom line is that every child can be an academic champion, an academic champion and a superstar in academics.”

Ifs Firsts Children Matter Language Differences Lines Levels Bottom Income Our Family Champion Academic Bottom Line Superstar

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“I think every single point will be important, .. I think more than anything, I'll just have to be able to compete better. When you're playing Serena Williams, you have to compete better than her. I got a lot of tricks from Serena just watching her. She inspired me so many times. I also got motivated by her in the early part of my career, and even now. I just have to compete better, bottom line.”

Thinking Important Able Lines Careers Inspired Bottom Tricks Motivated Bottom Line

Author:Venus Williams

“Especially in quail hunting, where the hunter is so focused on the bird that it makes everything else blurry. The bottom line in terms of bird hunting is what we call shooting zones.”

Term Lines Bird Bottom Focused Shooting Zone Hunting Hunters Bottom Line Blurry Quails

Author:Steven Hall

“The bottom line is, as the season goes on, everybody becomes more comfortable. For a quarterback, it's more than just him. It's everybody else doing things. Offense is all about how things work as a unit. It's everybody being comfortable.”

Lines Goes On Comfort Comfortable Seasons Bottom Offense Units Bottom Line Quarterback

Author:Kirk Ferentz

“Drawing is still the bottom line.”

Stills Lines Bottom Drawing Bottom Line

Book:The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn

Source: The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn

“Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“Somebody once told me, ‘Manage the top line, and the bottom line will follow.’ What's the top line? It's things like, why are we doing this in the first place? What's our strategy? What are customers saying? How responsive are we? Do we have the best products and the best people? Those are the kind of questions you have to focus on.”

People Firsts Kind Lines Focus Products Strategy Bottom Customers Manage Bottom Line

Book:Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

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

World Song Three Lines Bottom Singers Bottom Line

Author:Quincy Jones

“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.”

Lines Consequence Excellence Bottom Size Pursuit Golden Retreat Bottom Line Golden Rule Pursuit Of Excellence

Author:Gary Ryan

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

Lines Taken Blessed Bottom Gravity Bottom Line Good Health

Author:Betty White

“Let's call cheating what it is: a complete betrayal of trust. Cheaters are people who have a lot of stuff to work out and they're working it out on your time and with your heart. Some cheaters might give you an excuse, some might not have one at all, some might even blame you. No one can tell you exactly what to do when faced with this very complicated and painful situation. But the bottom line is, is this what you had hoped for in a relationship?”

Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

“I look for characters that are fun and that I'm going to have fun playing. By the way, that's whether it's drama, sci-fi, action, comedy, family movies or action-comedy. I just always want to have fun doing it. That's the bottom line.”

Way Want Looks Character Action Fun Lines Comedy Drama Bottom Having Fun Sci Fi Bottom Line

Author:Dwayne Johnson

“Continual improvement involves an appreciation that there is always a better way to do things irrespective of how much you have achieved or how comfortable you might be with where you currently are in life. As a young international rugby player I learnt a valuable lesson about sacrifice. The bottom line was the phrase 'long after the price is forgotten the quality remains'. Undertaking JOLT Challenge involves sacrifice but it is well worth it as you explore creative and innovative ways of challenging yourself for constant improvement in many areas of life.”

“The bottom line on attitude is that a good one helps to increase your possibilities. Pessimists usually get what they expect. So do optimists.”

Helping Lines Attitude Possibility Increase Bottom Optimist Bottom Line Pessimist

Author:John C. Maxwell

“The biggest problem is our lack of "response-ability." That’s what happens when money rather than love is the bottom line. People act like idiots.”

People Problem Happens Lines Ability Love Is Response Bottom Idiot Bottom Line

Author:Marianne Williamson

“We need more than new policies. We need a new worldview, and a new bottom line. We need to replace economic values as our ordering principle, with humanitarian values as our ordering principle.”

Needs Values Lines Principles Economic Policy Bottom Humanitarian Bottom Line Worldview Economic Value

Author:Marianne Williamson

“I think the knowledge about how legislation really affects small businesses is extremely valuable. If you haven't run a small business, then you don't have this kind of knowledge about how a regulation passed or taxes increased affects your bottom line. If you recognize that every new regulation takes that much more time to comply with, requires that many more employees, then it really gives you that foundational basis to make those decisions.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Kind Running Lines Decision Havens Taxes Bases Bottom Valuable Employee More Time Regulation Legislation Small Business Bottom Line

Author:Kristi Noem

“Here's a viewer's guide to BP media briefings. Whenever you hear someone with a British accent talking about this on behalf of British Petroleum they are not telling you the truth. That's the bottom-line.”

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Author:Anthony Weiner

“I think racism is a bottom-line AIDS issue. And I think homophobia is a bottom-line AIDS issue, and sexism and class issues and all of this. I think that we are not going to solve the AIDS epidemic unless we deal with these issues, and vice versa.”

Thinking Lines Deals Class Issues Racism Bottom Vices Solve Aids Sexism Bottom Line Vice Versa Epidemics Homophobia Aids Epidemic

Author:Ann Northrop

“A triumphalist corporate capitalism, free at last of the specter of Communism, has mobilized its economic power to relentlessly marginalize all nonmarket values; to subordinate every aspect of American life to corporate "efficiency" and the bottom line; to demonize not only government but the very idea of public service and public goods.”

Ideas Government Lasts Values Lines Economic Capitalism Aspect Bottom Communism Corporate Goods Efficiency Bottom Line Public Service Subordinates American Life Economic Power

Author:Ellen Willis

“The bottom line of any country is: what did we contribute to the world? We contributed Louis Armstrong.”

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Author:Tony Bennett

“Companies in the East put a lot more emphasis on human relationships, while those from the West focus on the product, the bottom line. Westerners appear to have more of a need for achievement, while in the East there's more need for affiliation.”

Needs Humans Lines Company Focus Products Achievement West Bottom East Emphasis Bottom Line Human Relationships Westerners Affiliation

Author:Daniel Goleman

“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.”

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Author:Daniel Goleman

“If you want to know who was better, me or Willie Mays, you have to look at our career stats. And Willie's bottom line was better.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.”

Ifs Thinking Use Body Government Lines Feminism Birth Absolutes Independent Independence Bottom Your Body Bottom Line Birth Control Bedrock

Author:Erica Jong

“The bottom line is that I'm an actor, so when somebody pitches me a great part, it's a no-brainer. You never know what it's gonna be like, in terms of the actual experience. You can be really excited about a part that can turn out shitty, you can have a bad time, there's a bad egg or two or three, in the bunch, or the producers are weird, or something like that.”

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Author:Kathy Bates

“There's a culture in orphanages that children are eager to escape from, and it's a culture of being reared as a group and not being doted upon by parents. For any child, that's the bottom line. The fact is that a human child wants that mommy or daddy or both.”

Want Humans Children Facts Culture Parent Lines Groups Bottom Daddy Bottom Line Orphanage

Author:Melissa Fay Greene

“There needs to be bolder thinking, ... on how to measure the quality of life of men and women in the work force. Currently, success is measured by material advancements. We need to readjust the definition of success to account for time outside of work and satisfaction of life, not just the dollars-and-cents bottom line.”

“We need to change society's ordering principle from economic to humanitarian values, from money as the bottom line to love as the bottom line.”

Love Needs Values Change Lines Money Principles Society Economic Bottom Humanitarian Bottom Line Need A Change Love Of Money

Author:Marianne Williamson

“I think if the doctor is a good doctor and has a patient's best interest in mind then he's not going to allow anything to compromise that patient's care. The bottom line is the doctor has to care for his patient. You have to have that overwhelming sense of welfare for your patient.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Care Interest Lines Doctors Patient Bottom Compromise Welfare Overwhelming Bottom Line Good Doctors

Author:Charles Teo

“If you want to get something done, there is always an alternate route other than cursing somebody and belittling them. There's always an alternate route. If you want to get any message across. Everybody has an opinion, and everybody has their own way of doing things, but the bottom line is that when you affect someone else, you should pay closer attention to how you treat people.”

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Author:Ray Lewis

“The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.”

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Author:Brian Greene

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