Best Top 10 Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“After 'Sports' came out in the fall of 1983, everything changed for me. Four of the album's singles became top-10 hits, and by the end of June in 1984, the album was No. 1 on the Billboard chart. It was quite a ride, and for the first time I had enough money to live the way I wanted.”

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Author:Huey Lewis

“I'm underrated, don't fit on nobody's playlist / If I ain't in your top 10, then you're a racist.”

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Author:Mac Miller

“Tony Stewart -- Broke out a new chassis at Pocono Raceway last June and raced to the checkered flag for his first victory of 2003; has finished among the top 10 in all but two of his 10 career starts here; Turn one is probably the easiest of the three, but you've got the challenge of having to downshift in the middle of the corner, .. You go down the backstretch and into the tunnel turn and it's basically one lane.”

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Author:Tony Stewart

“I'll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.”

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Author:Bernard Baruch

“I don't need to play Beatport Top 10 to get the crowd going”

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Author:Paul van Dyk

“Music critics are, for the most part, bitter people who are intent at dragging people down for being successful at what they want to do, which is probably music. The oddity of being a critic is: You don't get a diploma, you just decide you're a critic. If someone listens to your opinion rather than their own, it's their mistake. Any critic's top 10, any year, it's something controversial or something that will make them look hipper-than-thou. The whole critic game, we've never played.”

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Author:Paul Stanley

“Sex is Number 1 of my Top-10 joys in retirement. Number 2 is reading How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free. I forgot the other eight.”

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Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“People didn't know certain things about me, which... I was out of creative writing class in school, Syracuse University; had a B.A. in English and wanted to write the great American novel but I also loved rock and roll. I was in bar bands all through college, playing fraternities and have to know all the songs in the top 10. That kind of thing.”

“Nothing can kill the future dreams and goals of a new graduate than 50k of debt like an anvil over your head. I got to Indiana University not because I visited the campus and loved everything about it. I picked Indiana University because I saw a list of the top 10 business schools and it was the cheapest.”

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Author:Mark Cuban

“The Top 10 Most Effective Things That You Can Say: 1. Thank you very much. 2, You are so right. 3. How can I help you right now? 4. I ask that you ... 5. I apologize for for what has happened. 6. Why is that? 7. Are you willing to ...? 8. I love you. 9. Will you help me? 10. Yes.”

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Author:Thomas Leonard

“When I went to do "Carson" that night, they wanted us to do two songs, but we were a brand new band. "Conga" hadn't even hit the top 10 yet. They go, "Do you think you could do something that people know, because we want you to do a second song, but not two originals, because we don't want to lose the audience, just in case."”

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Author:Gloria Estefan

“To suddenly be working with one of the top-10 directors in the world, plus the film was in China, I almost blurted out, "How much do I have to pay?" It was just like a dream come true. That was an amazing experience.”

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Author:Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

“I don't think we should really be judging on Chris Brown like that until we know what Rihanna did. We all got reasons for what we do. Look at me. I'm one of the top 10 performers of all-time. I had to beat this one mermaid ass in a seafood restaurant over some shrimps. No lie. You just never know.”

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Author:Coolio

“I was a professional tennis player in my teens. I played mostly in Europe. I was top 10 in the world in juniors, and then I messed up my back. I had three herniated discs and that put a stop to it.”

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Author:Boris Kodjoe

“I'm planning to be the youngest contestant in the Top 32, and I'm planning to be the youngest person in the Top 10.”

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Author:Diana DeGarmo

“The Macintosh may only have 10% of the market, but it is clearly the top 10%.”

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Author:Douglas Adams

“It would be impossible for me to give you a list of the top 10 songs that shake my life. Far more music went in to it than just ten.”

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Author:Seymour Stein

“Give all the credit in the world to Angelique Kerber - great, great talent. She's been in the top 10 for the last four years, and she's one of those players that just really had a difficult time, when the chips were on the table, to kind of bring them over. And this time, she did it. I'm really happy for her because these chances don't come for these other players. Serena Williams has got 21 grand slam champions. Angelique Kerber was in her first final.”

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Author:Howard Bryant

“Income tax in particular in the United States is concentrated on the top half of the income distribution, and very heavily skewed towards the top 10 or even top 1 percent.”

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Author:Judy Woodruff

“What makes You Can't Take It With You so popular and a perennial favorite with student and amateur productions (it continues to be one of the top 10 best-selling plays year after year) is the breadth of characters and personalities on display: in age, race, gender, social status, a true cross section of society when the play was written and also true today in terms of the reality of the humanity on display.”

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Author:Chris Hart

“Interesting statistic: In every economic recovery until 1982, working people captured more than 80 percent of the value of the recovery. Since 1982, the top 10 percent has captured 90 percent of the value of the economic recovery.”

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Author:Julianne Malveaux

“To be counted in the world's top 10 of anything I guess gets eyeballs.”

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Author:Hrithik Roshan

“If you look at the top 10 enterprise software companies, a lot of them are important but irrelevant companies. It's really important to be relevant and important.”

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Author:Marc Benioff

“A lot of times, movies that are in the top 10 lists or maybe even win Baftas or Oscars, you then watch them a year later and you go, 'Maybe it wasn't so great.'”

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Author:Viggo Mortensen

“The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language.”

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Author:Erez Lieberman Aiden

“My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."”

“The top 10 per cent of the US population appropriated 91 per cent of income growth between 1989 and 2006, while the top 1 per cent took 59 per cent.”

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Author:Ha-Joon Chang

“America's critics can be heard everywhere. It is too much in love with money - worshipping the god of the marketplace, the golden calf. It has too much money, seven of the top 10 banks, eight of the top 10 companies etc. It is too stingy, giving away less of its wealth than other countries. It is vulgar, a rich barbarian.”

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Author:Maurice Saatchi

“I've been very lucky to work on a wide variety of projects, including two long-run and top-10 dramatic television shows. That is why it is so important to offer a helping hand to the next generation of young Latinos coming up behind me.”

“We're working on being consistently in the top 10, top 12 and getting ready for next year's Chase. We need the make the Chase and one way we need to do it is to be consistent and starting running in the top 12.”

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Author:Kasey Kahne

“You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it.”

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Author:Roddy Doyle

“I'm following the players, and it's great. We've never had so many Top 10 big players like now. There's so many out there that are very close.”

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Author:Gabriela Sabatini

“Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas - this past summer, for example, the top 10 movies registered at the same level as in '04.”

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Author:Peter Bart

“Hip-hop is not something we do, it's something we live. It's the way we dress, the way we talk... everybody bobbing to the same beat. It's a culture, and you have to find your own place in that culture. Top 10 or Top 40 can't dictate that. They can only dictate what's marketable.”

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Author:Erykah Badu

“In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“If I'm going to be out there, I want to be in the top 10 and really have a chance of winning a Grand Slam.”

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Author:Stefan Edberg

“I remember attaching a wire clothing hanger to the antenna of my radio in my bedroom, so I could get the frequency and get that station and listen to the top 10 every night.”

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Author:Nelly Furtado

“... the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.”

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Author:Dick Morris

“On the PGA Tour, guys finish in the top 10, make a ton of money and think they're great players. In my era, you had to win. We didn't settle for anything else.”

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Author:Hale Irwin

“You know, back in the 1950s and '60s, when J. Edgar Hoover was making the FBI the respected organization it used to be, oftentimes they would find a fugitive and basically have his house surrounded, and then put out a press release saying he was on the top 10 most wanted list. And 10 minutes later, he'd be arrested.”

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Author:Howie Carr

“I think when you've played at the level that I've played, anything outside the top 10 in certain aspects is just a number, unless you're obviously trying to get into tournaments and stuff.”

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Author:Michael Chang

“One of my top 10 favorite movies of all time was South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. Team America is a work of genius to me.”

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Author:Josh Gad

“It's kind of nice in some ways having an Olympic Trials where I finished second. You can kind of go in more under the radar facing a 2:03 guy and facing a lot of dudes who are faster than I am, whereas, before Beijing, I had one of the top 10 times in the field, or something like that.”

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Author:Ryan Hall

“I remember one of my last shows, the Final Jeopardy! clue was something like 'These two boys' names are top 10 boys' names in the U.S., they both end with the same letter, and they're both names of Jesus' apostles.' Now, obviously that's not a knowable fact.”

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Author:Ken Jennings