Down Quotes
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It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.
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If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.
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He leaned about the same way in falling towards Jacqueline, forward, down towards the bottom of the car.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.
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So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.
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I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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My middle finger won't go down, how do I wave?
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Only 10 percent of the people in the U.S. like dry wines. You shouldn't get down on people just because they like a little sugar.
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Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.
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When I started Net-a-Porter, I knew nothing. And I was pregnant. Starting a new venture and being pregnant for the first time are pretty similar in many ways. If you knew what was going to happen to you, you wouldn't venture down that road.
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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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I've worked nonstop for 31 years. I've counted down myself hundreds of cues for everything in each 90-minute show. I've never really taken an extended break, so I'd like to see what a vacation is really like.
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We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.
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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
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The one sound I think of when I think about dreaming is the harp glissando, which is this really atmospheric run up and down the scale that's really dreamy.
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When I first decided I wanted to make beats and write songs and stuff like that, it wasn't like I sat down and the first thing I wrote was even halfway legit. It took a while to find my way through it.
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I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.
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When I was in Thailand, I went into the up-country because Marco Polo didn't get down into the flesh pots of Bangkok because they didn't exist in those days.
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Well obviously the economy is critical to everything we do and we need to get the economy back in shape, the deficit down, the debt paid off, so that the economy can grow again and grow properly.
