Down Quotes
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What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
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But then all that died down and as far as casting was concerned it didn't really matter that I had been on Broadway.
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History class was a forty-minute squirm from which I would emerge unscathed by insight. Down the hall in English Lit, though, there were stories to be had, and it was stories I craved.
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If you go down as a comedian's comedian, that's basically meaning other comedians are hopefully feeling that you're doing okay.
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I vent my anger in the gym, and it calms me down.
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You can't force something like that. But we have encouraged our audience, because we avoid the confrontation of regular rock concerts: us up here, you down there. Instead, we're looking for interaction.
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I make sure I always surround myself with good, down to earth, fun, real people, who always keep me grounded.
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My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.
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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
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I believe the Obama administration, from the president on down, has taken a very weak position regarding granting Palestine statehood at the United Nations.
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I can forgive the body breaking down. It's a little tougher to forgive that mental lapse.
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At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.
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When it gets down to it you just have to act.
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Years down the line, I became a food stylist.
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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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I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along; if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone.
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Feel ashamed of my generation. We've let down our children and their children.
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I used to be more of a wild kid. But I've slowed down.
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I got hit with an octopus in Detroit one time. It was the most gross thing I've ever had happen. I got it right in the back of the neck; all the juice was coming down. It was awful.
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If a role has been too one-dimensional, I have turned it down.
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The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.
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The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.
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I write about whatever turns up. Every single day, I'm sitting down for three to five hours in the evenings wrestling away and producing far too much verse.
