Down Quotes
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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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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.
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Cyber terrorists are no different from other terrorists: No matter where they hide, we will track them down and seek to bring them to the United States to face justice.
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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.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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It is the job of our military to protect America and to hunt down and kill those who would threaten to murder Americans.
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But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.
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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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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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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.
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Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
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My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen.
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.
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I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere to go but down.
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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
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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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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 mean, you've kind of got the track down, especially with ovals. The only thing that improves is that when race conditions come, you know what to expect slightly more from the track and from your car.
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The gym is where I get my chill-out time. I try to go six days a week, but when I'm working, that goes down to about three.
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The IT bubble is the IT bubble, and of course, we became a company that contracted dramatically in 2001 and 2002: we basically came down by 45,000 people - a dramatic ramp-down.
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The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
