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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Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.
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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 cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
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If you think down, you will go down. If you think up, you will go up. You’ll always travel in the direction of your thinking.
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So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.
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It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots.
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Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.
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I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.
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The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.
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If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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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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The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.
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Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.
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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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Hackney at certain epochs has given itself suburban airs and graces, before being slapped down and consigned once more to the dump bin of aborted ambition.
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Radio interviews are really snappy and I'm just bad at that. I just close down.
