Down Quotes
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Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
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I want to touch people's hearts, to get right down to their souls.
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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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Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.
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I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.
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Once you have a Down's syndrome child, you can't conform. In a way, you're free.
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I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.
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As a solo performer, it's total involvement. What I do is to break down the wall between audience and performer.
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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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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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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.
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Obama was expected to restore an ethical sheen to post-9/11 foreign policy, but he has intensified drone warfare in Yemen and Pakistan, pursued whistle-blowers, and failed to close down Guantanamo.
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I don't think I could ever settle down. I have known too much of the depths of life already, and I would prefer anything to an anticlimax.
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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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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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I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months.
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I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.
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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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I got more bands and went on the road and turn down more movies than you would believe.
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When my car broke down in L.A., nobody stopped. They just kept whizzing by.
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I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousand applicants down to one hundred places on a National Union of Journalists course.
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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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If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world.
