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I would like to see a lot of people more involved in practical solutions to practical problems. Women have got to the point where we can turn the world upside down.
Obiageli Ezekwesili
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The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.
Tori Amos
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No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.


H. R. Giger
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It's always mildly unnerving when you're hanging upside down 70 feet in the air.


Reeve Carney
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Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?


Alber Elbaz
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I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.
Anna Deavere Smith
'The Talk-Funny Girl' opens with a glum picture of a desperately poor rural New England family. Poverty has so brutalized the family that the ordinary laws and rules governing humanity have eroded, turning systems of behavior upside down.
Carolyn See
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You have to be creative. It's the basics. You can't be Picasso unless you know how to draw a real face; then you can turn it upside down.
Diane English
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We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination. They turned all the presumptions and ideas of power and blessing upside down.
Shane Claiborne
Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.
Carl Honore
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In NASCAR, you can do a lot of banging around and get pretty serious and even get yourself upside down. All of those things can happen - and then you give an interview two seconds later.
Mario Andretti
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The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
Karl Kraus
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Basically, I see myself as a maker of things who knows how to support other makers of things. At the end of the day, I am just committed to helping put good stories out into the world in whatever role is appropriate and needed for that particular project.
Mark Kassen
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I see kids and young adults walking the streets of L.A. with this enormous sense of entitlement, who seem to think that if they are basically good people and pay their bills, then the world will be good back to them. And I think life isn't always like that.
Evangeline Lilly
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My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way.
Marilyn Manson
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My father was famous for his photographic memory. He was in the OSS. They trained him to be captured on purpose and to read upside down and backwards and commit to memory every document in Germany he saw as he was being interrogated - every schedule on every wall. So, that photographic memory somehow made its way to me when I was young.
Mark Helprin
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I have a birthmark on the inside of my left knee that resembles an upside-down sea horse.


Gabourey Sidibe
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I learned everything by ear and played all the different instruments. So then I was able to find a guitar. That was, like, in the seventh grade. And then I didn't know how to put my fingers on all the different strings, so I had to figure out how to do it upside down and backwards, and I still play that way today.
Dick Dale
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I see myself more as a character actress than a celebrity.


Rose Byrne
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My favorite Aspen memory is saving an upside-down cake that had exploded from the high altitude.


Emeril Lagasse
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