Down Quotes
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Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory.
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When you're governor, you've got to step up to the plate; you've got to make a proposal for a balanced budget. That's the requirement. And then you've got to sit down and negotiate if the folks that you need to work with disagree with you on points.
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Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.
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I have my own studio down in Miami.
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I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing.
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The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
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I'm very excited that I can get on a skateboard and skateboard down the street now. That was something I never thought I'd be able to do. I conquered my fears.
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If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.
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You never know how long a player has left, especially with strikers. Once you turn 30, as a striker, you are usually on the way down, and playing from the age of 16, at such a high level, has to take its toll.
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I don't want to come off as one of those artists that's not down to earth and real.
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I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I just have to go right down to the common denominator, find the simplest way that you can look at an object or a problem, and not muck it up with all of the stuff that adults do and over-analyze.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.
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I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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It's always a little bit personal when your work is cut down for whatever reason.
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Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.
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All sensible politicians favor growth, just as we all favor sound public finances. Both can be achieved if we rationalize spending, invest available resources wisely, and clamp down on tax evasion.
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It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
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When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.
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When incomes and bonuses decrease, revenues falter, and businesses stumble, it's more important than ever to give - not necessarily more, but in a way that matters more. When incomes are down and wallets are stretched, the effectiveness of our giving is what really counts.
