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I always wanted to be a musician from when I was kid. It was always a massive dream of mine. School was also really really important to me and having an education was top of my priority. So I really wanted to have a degree before I tried anything in the music industry.

Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.

I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit.

Study the public behavior of top stars and you can detect a keen attentiveness to brand value.

That strategy of racing for the top five and racing for the win is where everybody wants to be.

I was terrified. My first week, walking around in a teeny bikini, I kept crossing my arms over my chest because I was afraid I was going to fall out of the top of the suit. And I didn't know anything about technique or lighting.

I cut the feet out of my control top pantyhose to wear under these white pants and that was the ah-ha moment that started Spanx. My own butt was my own inspiration!

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Also at the top of the list was my three day appearance on 'Press Your Luck'. In addition to the intense competition of each of those games, it slowly started to dawn on me in the minutes between tapings that I was winning some serious money.

Creating a top team and being in a position to win the Tour de France will give me a nice feeling. But I know it is not easy to create a top team from zero. You need good riders, good staff, a lot of preparation and, most important, a lot of sponsors.

The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.

I lost more then 6 kilograms when I ceased with the top sport. That were all muscles. They are now gone.

Obviously, the competitor in you, you want to be in the top three every time in the pool.

Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.

I was never the ingenue, so hopefully that'll make it easier to age and still work. I know a lot of actors who are really dissatisfied with where they're at even though some of them are huge stars and I feel like, 'Oh, my God, you're at the top.' Something interesting will come. It always does. I have faith.

I used to watch dailies and felt I had to keep on top of the character, but I don't feel that any more.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

The image of the unions is still not in tune with where we actually are, which is fifty-fifty men and women, with an increasing number of women at the top. I think it is changing, but I'm not complacent about this.

Having two older brothers is a healthy reminder that you're always closer to the bottom than you are to the top.

My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.

My top three were Jim Brown, Wilt Chamberlain and Bo Jackson.

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

To hang out in a gay bar or put on a sequined halter top makes me feel like a total person.

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

I use something that is a real staple in the directing world. It's called a dance floor. You lay it down so that it's so smooth you can roll around, and you can put furniture on top of it. It's seamless and you don't see it.

If I put the top down, I start to burn in about five minutes.

When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.

Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

I think she was ready to go. Not to be kicked out. Go at the top. Undefeated.