Down Quotes
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
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Muslim communities themselves, as they expect mainstream society to stand down racists, must do more to also stand down the Islamist extremists.
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I never wanted a life of having a nice house, driving around, settling down.
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I wanted to take nouvelle cuisine further, to the point where we were breaking down the essence of taste and sensation, reconfiguring food as a series of really intense hits on the tongue.
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The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.
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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
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I find it difficult to turn down an entrepreneur who's both passionate and knowledgeable about their space.
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The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
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Instead of personal security, citizens are afraid to walk down the street in Jerusalem.
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When I look down the range at the target all I can do is try to distinguish between the different colors.
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I love what I do so much. I just keep going. Not much can bring me down.
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Cadillacs are down at the end of the bat.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.
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Hackney at certain epochs has given itself suburban airs and graces, before being slapped down and consigned once more to the dump bin of aborted ambition.
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I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. and I'll be the last out at 11 A.M., having gone up and down the buffet seven times.
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Working across the aisle, I helped pass laws exposing business dealings in Iran, cracking down on Iranian human rights abusers, and applying crippling sanctions to Iran's oil and gas industries.
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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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Our publicist at Warner Brothers is a young guy who has worked so hard for seven years with us and when we saw him backstage he broke down and cried. He couldn't believe it happened. It was seeing him so overcome when we realised how much it really meant.
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You know how you put peanut butter on a piece of bread and the bread falls - it never falls on the bread side down, it always falls peanut butter side down. That's because of gravity.
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I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.
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I don't approve of the notion that we should be announcing who should step down from the position of a head of a state unless we are seriously prepared to remove that person. But if we are not, if we are being prudent and careful, then let's also be careful with how we talk.
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What an electric thrill it sends up and down the spine, how it sets the heart racing: A Royal Romance! A Royal Wedding! The pomp and the pageantry!
