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I saw a human pyramid once. It was very unnecessary.
Mitch Hedberg
Once
Saw
Unnecessary
Pyramid
Very
Human
Some dog I got too. We call him Egypt. Because in every room he leaves a pyramid.
Rodney Dangerfield
Dog
Pet
Every
Too
Some
He
Pyramid
Call
Him
Because
Got
Leaves
Egypt
Room
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
Alan Kay
Today
Integrity
Other
Software
Top
Thousands
Structural
Brute
Brute Force
Pyramid
Like
Most
Force
Piled
Very
Done
Egyptian
Just
Much
Bricks
Each
Millions
Slaves
Some people have come to admire Stephen Harper's style because he's standing at the top of the pyramid - that's not leadership to me.
Justin Trudeau
Leadership
Me
People
Some People
Style
Top
Admire
Some
He
Pyramid
Come
Because
Standing
As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.
Adam Sedgwick
God
Anger
Aim
Philosophy
System
Daring
High
Seek
Poised
Pyramid
Tower
Like
Shelter
Against
Apex
Babel
Most of the approaches to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, have been directed at trying to resolve the most complex problems, like refugees and Jerusalem, which is akin to building the pyramid from the top down.
Benjamin Netanyahu
Peace
Problems
Building
Down
Resolve
Approaches
Top
Complex
Directed
Between
Pyramid
Like
Most
Israel
Been
Trying
Refugees
Which
Jerusalem
Palestinians
Organized religion: the world's largest pyramid scheme.
Bernard Katz
Religion
World
Scheme
Pyramid
Organized
Organized Religion
Largest
It is a certainty that Herbalife is a pyramid scheme. We believe it's harming a population of low-income, principally Hispanic people in the U.S. to benefit a handful of super wealthy people at the top of the pyramid.
Bill Ackman
People
Believe
Harming
Benefit
Top
Wealthy
Super
Scheme
Pyramid
Principally
Hispanic
Handful
Low-Income
Certainty
Population
There are lots of people shaping decisions, and so if we want to predict correctly, we have to pay attention to everybody who is trying to shape the outcome, not just the people at the pinnacle of the decision-making pyramid.
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
People
Predict
Pay
Pay Attention
Everybody
Correctly
Outcome
Shape
Shaping
Attention
Pyramid
Pinnacle
Lots
Trying
Just
Want
Decision-Making
Decisions
Who
If you push down that pyramid of power and spread out the base, every member gets a chance to file their bill and have it heard and file their amendment and have it heard, as opposed to the system that we have now, which closes out, closes down bills, limits debate, and so forth.
Dan Webster
You
Debate
Power
Down
Every
System
Member
Out
Push
Pyramid
Spread
Limits
Opposed
Heard
Amendment
Closes
Gets
Which
Forth
Bill
File
Bills
Base
Now
Chance
I went to a lot of Chicago Wolves games when I was growing up... They would come out of the tunnel, the pyramid would be there, and the fire would come out of the pyramid. I thought it was the coolest thing.
Hilary Knight
Thought
Fire
Out
Would
Would-Be
Pyramid
Come
Wolves
Lot
Chicago
Up
Tunnel
Games
Coolest
Coolest Thing
Growing
Growing Up
Thing
My pub was full of get-rich-quick schemes that never worked - scams, pyramid schemes. People trying to find a way to get themselves out of a rut.
James Purefoy
People
Way
Out
Scams
Find
Rut
Schemes
Never
Pyramid
Get
Trying
Pub
Themselves
Worked
Full
The full retirement age is 67 and the lifespan is 80, so when they first conceived Social Security, they didn't think they were going to be paying benefits for 13-15 years. That's one of the reasons why this pyramid scheme isn't working.
Joe Heck
Age
Benefits
First
Think
Security
Scheme
Retirement
Retirement Age
Pyramid
Conceived
Were
Years
Going
Social
Working
Full
Paying
Reasons
Social Security
Why
The 19th-century pure capitalist model of society was a pyramid, concentrations of enormous wealth in a small group at the top, a not very big middle-class in the middle, and an enormous percentage of the population in the bottom part of the pyramid.
John Ralston Saul
Wealth
Pure
Big
Group
Society
Enormous
Top
Percentage
Small
Small Group
Bottom
Part
Pyramid
Very
Model
Middle
Capitalist
Population
Bergdorf Goodman is positioned at the very top of the luxury pyramid, and I think that as we go through this next phase of renovation, we're going to elevate it even further.
Karen Katz
Luxury
Think
Top
Further
Through
Pyramid
Goodman
Go
Very
Going
Next
Even
Elevate
Phase
There are a lot of kids coming in to athletics, but there is also a big drop-out rate. We've got it right at the top end, but we have to maintain the base of the pyramid.
Lynn Davies
Big
Top
Kids
Athletics
Rate
Drop-Out
Maintain
Pyramid
Also
Got
Coming
Lot
End
Base
Right
You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting.
Margaret Atwood
You
Women
People
Somewhere
Power
Tell
Would
Point
Could
Point Of View
Tends
Pick
Pyramid
Tale
Mistakenly
Felt
Narrator
Male
Oppressed
Women Are
Itself
Handmaid
Interesting
Organise
View
Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's unacceptable for someone to attempt to jump from the bottom to the top of the pyramid.
Nick Cave
Musicians
Creative
People
Think
Top
Unacceptable
Someone
Attempt
Bottom
Pyramid
Jump
Authors
Many
I am at the top of the pyramid, but I am not stupid, and I realise that one small step could see me fall down very quickly.
Patrice Evra
Me
Stupid
Fall
Down
Top
See
Small
Could
Step
Pyramid
Am
Very
Quickly
Realise
In Indonesia, Qualcomm, in a joint project with Grameen Foundation, has provided a range of mobile phone-based services to individuals. This project facilitates the creation of businesses for those living at the bottom of the economic pyramid and, at the same time, extends telecommunication access to people who cannot afford a mobile phone.
Peggy Johnson
Time
People
Phone
Creation
Living
Project
Range
Those
Economic
Joint
Bottom
Individuals
Indonesia
Pyramid
Access
Provided
Mobile
Afford
Same
Same Time
Cannot
Who
Businesses
Foundation
Services
I really, really like 'In Rainbows.' But I also really like 'OK Computer' as a sort of flipside to that. 'Reckoner' is my favorite, just my favorite Radiohead song. That, 'Idioteque,' and 'Pyramid Song' are my top three.
Phoebe Tonkin
Song
Three
Top
OK
Favorite
Computer
Pyramid
Like
Also
Sort
Just
Really
Radiohead
Rainbows
According to the 'food waste pyramid,' ensuring that food is eaten by people is the top priority. Failing that, the next best thing is to feed it to farm animals.
Tristram Stuart
Best
Food
People
Animals
Farm
Top
Ensuring
Eaten
Feed
Failing
Pyramid
Priority
According
Next
Waste
Thing
My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'
Vicki Lawrence
Game
Favorite
Pyramid
Were
Game Shows
Shows
The Arab spring was not as radical as the French or Iranian revolutions. It did not pull out the deeply entrenched roots of the state. Instead, it was satisfied to replace the top of the pyramid with newly elected, but inexperienced, leaders.
Wadah Khanfar
Spring
Radical
Satisfied
State
Top
Arab
Arab Spring
Out
Entrenched
Instead
Leaders
Pyramid
French
Inexperienced
Iranian
Replace
Did
Revolutions
Newly
Elected
Roots
Deeply
Pull
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