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What's the point of being the best in the world if you scratch and claw your way to the top, and you push everybody down instead of lifting everybody else up with you? Rose Namajunas

Best You World Down Everybody Everybody Else Else Top Way Point Push Lifting Instead Up Scratch Being Your Being The Best

The largest expense in our philanthropy is capital expenditure because we are building these institutions. This institution-building idea stems from my father because he has the experience of building a company from scratch. Roshni Nadar

Experience Father Building Philanthropy Our Stems He Idea Institutions Because Scratch Expenditure Expense Capital Company Largest

OK, boss, I don't mind shuffling, but I won't scratch my head. Ruby Dee

Mind OK Boss Head Scratch Shuffling

I always vaguely knew I wanted to perform, but I haven't got the greatest singing voice and my dancing isn't up to scratch. Acting was really the only alternative. My parents have been really supportive throughout. Ruth Wilson

As a kid, I loved the idea of alternate possibilities, roads not taken, that sort of thing - and I think seeing the 'Adventure Time' universe rendered by the artists in those stories will scratch that same itch really well. Ryan North

Time Will Think Universe Kid Those Possibilities Seeing Taken Roads Idea Adventure Rendered Well Alternate Sort Itch Same Scratch Artists Stories Loved Really Thing

Starting a business from scratch and having little money in the bank focuses your mind in a way that running a multibillion-dollar business never does. It brings the key drivers of performance into sharp relief. I promise. Sallie Krawcheck

When my kids were in the school play for the first time, I decided I had to make the costumes from scratch and bought material, wadding, dyed T-shirts, and purple tights so I could say I made the octopus costume myself. Sarah Alexander

Time Myself School Made First Say Kids Costume Costumes Purple Could Had Bought School Play Make First Time Material Tights Octopus Were Scratch Dyed Decided Play

In 1987, Merrill Lynch asked me to open a Swiss capital markets operation. I was 27. In hindsight, I was lucky enough to start a business from scratch. And I mean from zero - no offices, even, just a space with walls between different areas. We decided to tear down the walls. Sergio Ermotti

Me Business Walls Space Down Enough Markets Area Open Between Operation Hindsight Offices Scratch Just Different Decided Different Areas Mean Capital Asked Lucky Even Tear Swiss Zero Start

I do most of my vocals - aside from a couple of little one-shot vocal samples. I record everything into the Saffire with an SM58 then scratch it with loads of plug-ins. I don't do much vocoding to be honest. All my vocals are usually done with Melodyne and a ton of other plug-ins to make it sound weird. Skrillex

Home is where I am. Sadly, I don't need a history to be able to exist somewhere. When I was still very young, my father told me: 'Look, we will always have to move, again and again.' I thought that was marvelous! That's how I got used to thinking that life meant starting from scratch, over and over again. Sophie Hunger

Life Home Me History Father Will Thought Somewhere Young Thinking Able Marvelous Over Sadly Look Always Got How Am Still Exist Very Scratch Move Where Again Meant Used Starting Need

You have to put the extra hours in if you're not up to scratch with everyone else. Stacey Dooley

You Extra Else Everyone Everyone Else Put Hours Up Scratch

My father built a small business from scratch with years and years of sweat equity and many, many weeks away from home. He employed about 50 people, and by the end of his working years, the business was highly successful. He became a millionaire. Stephen Moore

Home Business People Millionaire Father About Small Small Business Weeks He Highly Employed Became Built Equity His Years Years And Years End Scratch Sweat Successful Working Many Away

Creating a new country from scratch has given Estonia the license to imagine what a country could be. Taavet Hinrikus

Country License Given Could New Scratch Estonia Creating Imagine

Sometimes a sound gets overused. There is such a thing as a good saxophone, but it's like those fields in agriculture - they need to rest for a year or so. You need time to burn all the saxophones and start from scratch. Thomas Mars

It's very funny because every time I make a movie, and I've heard this re-echoed by other filmmakers and actors I have worked with, you kind of feel like you're naked again. You have to figure it all out from scratch, as if you had never done it before. Todd Haynes

Funny Time You Naked Before Every Other Every Time Out Kind All-Out Never Had Feel Like Make Because Heard Very Done Scratch Movie Again Worked Figure Actor Filmmakers

I've been fortunate to come on places where the question isn't why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didn't anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about. Todd McFarlane

Me Before Else Those About Head Come Always Been Question Did Scratch Anybody Anybody Else Where Places Fortunate Why

The problem with politicians getting to know the issues in indigenous townships is that we tend to suffer from what Aboriginal people call the 'seagull syndrome' - we fly in, scratch around and fly out. Tony Abbott

People Problem Fly Politicians Syndrome Out Aboriginal Indigenous Tend Know Call Around Issues Getting Scratch The Problem With Seagull Suffer

I like to see the world from different levels. Even when I'm making a candle or designing a piece, I like to sit on the floor to polish or make it from scratch. I haven't seen really tough times, but my husband has come up the hard way. He has even seen poverty. Twinkle Khanna

Tough Times World Husband Seen Tough Poverty Sit Way See He Come Like Piece Make Polish Making Up Times Scratch Candle Different Different Levels Really Hard Even Hard Way Floor Designing Levels

My pipe business I created from scratch; my media assets and bank I bought from the secondary market. Victor Pinchuk

Business Secondary Market Bought Pipe Scratch Bank Created Media Assets

Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the generality of people that their opinions - on films, on books, on all manner of widgets, gadgets and even the latest electronic fidgets - simply aren't up to scratch. Will Self

Me People Gadgets Sometimes Job Films Books Latest Consists Critic Telling Generality Simply Mostly Opinions Occurs Cultural Up Scratch Manner Electronic Even Serious

Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege. William Beveridge

You Pessimist Find Privilege Often Scratch Defender

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