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It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.
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Walking down the street with a portrait of the Dalai Lama will get one immediately arrested in most parts of China. Tiny medallions are routinely confiscated and destroyed.
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I never go anywhere without a book for fear of being stuck in line in front of the theater or strapped down in the dentist's chair and being bored witless. Thus, I read everywhere.
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Years down the line, I became a food stylist.
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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I like the idea of working my way up. I don't feel impatient to immediately jump into something that could literally bring down a studio if I don't do it well.
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I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions.
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I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.
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When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.
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We are not going to be the agency where large businesses can masquerade as a small business and get a contract. We are closing down on fraud, waste and abuse.
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The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.
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Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.
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The audience may not have felt it was right, and the author may have felt a little upset, but every part I've played I've twisted around in my mind until I've made it into something of my own. Looking back over it, I didn't deliberately sit down and plan like that, but it does read like it.
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I think it's highly likely that we'll continue to have high-performance graphics capability in living rooms. I'm not sure we're all going to put down our game controllers and pick up touch screens - which is a reasonable view, I'm just not sure I buy into it.
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What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be.
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
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Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.
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If a role has been too one-dimensional, I have turned it down.
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I've actually been turned down for jobs because I was in Playboy.
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Sometimes you should just put down the computer, the phone, and walk away.
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I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.