Frank Lloyd Wright
Architect
"I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up."
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L. Ron Hubbard
Author
"I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope."
James Hunter
Author
"Our top-down pyramid style of management is a very old concept borrowed from centuries of war and monarchies."
Hunter S. Thompson
Journalist, Author
"We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive...." And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas."
Barack Obama
Politician
"Rather than double-down on the top-down economics that let a fortunate few play by their own rules, let’s embrace an economic patriotism that says we rise or fall together, as one nation, and as one people."
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"In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large employers on the other. But we have a choice."
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"Got my tank top top down, it probably ain't summer but I ride like that cause I'm hotter than the others."
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"We can't afford more top-down economics. What we need are policies that will grow and strengthen the middle class."
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"So we don't need more top-down economics. We've tried that theory. We've seen what happens. We can't afford to go back to it."
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"I was elected because I believed in what we call "grassroots politics," politics from the bottom up, not the top down."
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"I don't expect to get 100 percent of what I want, but what we can't do is go back to the kind of top-down economics that doesn't work."
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"I've seen, all too often in my career, people coming in to lead agencies and organizations and trying to impose change from the top down. Never works. You never have enough time."
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"[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions."
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"The bottom line: All of your investing decisions should be grounded in your own investment policy statement. By taking a "top-down" look at your finances and writing out a road map, your policy statement will add an important element of discipline to your approach."
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"For so long, companies were run using a command-and-control, 'top down' hierarchical method that involved dictating down the command chain and maintaining order. What I've witnessed in our time is evolving democratization, a shift to a demand economy accelerated by technological advancements like social media."
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"It's always hard for me to find a therapist who is a black woman or even a woman of color. It's something that we've always been told is not for us. It's top down."
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