![[Ella Baker]'s second defining characteristic was her dislike of top-down leadership... 'She felt leaders were not appointed but the rose up. Someone will rise. Someone will emerge'. It was an attitude Baker shared with some of the older women in the movement.](/assets/img/quote-photos/ella-bakers-second-defining-characteristic-was-her-dislike-of-top-down-leaders.jpg)
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As a team, there's nights when you need his enthusiasm, you need that desire to go through anybody. His fearless attitude on the ice is something that keeps other teams on their toes. There's nights you just can't have another player do that. He's full bore, straight ahead, and the first guy there when there's trouble for any of his teammates. Lindy Ruff
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As Cro-Magnon as it sounds, the problem with attitudes is some people have just never had their ass kicked -- and I don't mean necessarily in the physical sense. Orlando McGuire
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Leadership must be established from the top down. Sam Nunn
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Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down. Tom Brokaw
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Thanks for coming. But we're going to the Rose Bowl. Vince Young
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I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he. 'You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me. Arthur Conan Doyle
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My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns. Bret Michaels
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose. Arthur Schopenhauer
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Let us dismiss, as irrelevant to the poem per se, the circumstance ... which, in the first place, gave rise to the intention of composing a poem that should suit at once the popular and the critical taste. Edgar Allan Poe
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I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree. Edward Abbey
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A good writer must have more than vin rose in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.
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Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose. Amy Lowell
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