Down Quotes
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
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Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
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Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.
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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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Once you have a Down's syndrome child, you can't conform. In a way, you're free.
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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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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 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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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've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.
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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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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'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.
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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 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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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 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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Healthcare is the only civil system where new technology makes prices go up instead of down.
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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.
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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.
