Down Quotes
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I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.
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I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.
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A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.
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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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I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
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They planned this fair to bring business to Chicago, into the Loop. But you could have fired a cannon down state street and hit nobody, because everybody was out at the fair.
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This election could come down to just a handful of votes. It could come down to just one vote.
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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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The government will always tell you that it wants low inflation. The real issue is the horizon over which to bring inflation down.
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Even on TV appearances or big shows, I don't know if I've ever been as nervous as I was my first time doing stand-up. I just remember getting offstage and sitting down, and my right knee was just shaking from the adrenaline.
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I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.
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There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.
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One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.
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Most music careers slowly but surely go down.
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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.
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The trend in entrepreneurship is up, but an entrepreneur's ability to hire is down.
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Feel ashamed of my generation. We've let down our children and their children.
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When it gets down to it you just have to act.
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To be joining 'The Hunger Games' family is such a thrill. It deserves the hype because it's well written, handles really big subject matter, but doesn't talk down to its audience. And then there's the romance element.
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The Pentagon is actually a 10-story building, five up and five down.
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You don't cut anywhere, don't pick down anywhere, don't double screen, no weak side picking. All these things that should happen in a game of basketball don't happen anymore.
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We all need to slow down and go to acupuncture.
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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
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I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.
