If you look at the top ten most reliable cars, as reported by thousands of people in all kinds of independent testing, there's only one American car in the top ten. It's the Buick.
The goal for the top American isn't the top twenty - it's top ten, top five, number one in the world.
There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist—it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist.
My bigger game plan was always to be the top artist in the heart of people and that probably made me artist of the year on multiple music streaming platforms.
Edward: It wasn't the worst night of my life. Jake: Did it make the top ten? Edward: Possibly. But, if I had been able to take your place last night, it would not have made the top ten of the best nights of my life. Dream about that.
There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class.
I think I am becoming incapable of being too surprised. But it just makes me sad and sick.
Black Ken' debuted number one on iTunes in hip-hop, and top five or ten top, top five on the whole iTunes, on all genres. It was really cool to be able to self-produce.
Many of us place top priority not on becoming Christ like in the middle of our problems but on finding happiness.... I must firmly and consciously by an act of my will reject the goal of becoming happy and adopt the goal of becoming more like the Lord.
To me, it's normal. We summered in Vermont, and me and my sister Ilyasah went to one of the top ten schools in the country [the Hackley School].
Becoming an artist cannot be taught. A degree and diligence is not a guarantee that one can become an 'artist.
The Gold Glove surprised me a little. To tell you the truth, I didn't expect it. I feel I played at the top of my game, but I was new to the league and I didn't think that many people would vote for me.
One of the questions I often get asked is, "Were you surprised that Trump won?" I always answer the same way: "I was surprised, I am surprised and I will never stop being surprised."
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.
The fact that people are embracing me so well as a new artist and being taken so seriously is something I'm really surprised by.
I am so blessed to do what I love to do, but becoming a solo artist terrified me!