Down Quotes
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Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.
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The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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We all have our down days, but it's not hard to smile and say, 'Thank you.'
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
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I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic.
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It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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When you're governor, you've got to step up to the plate; you've got to make a proposal for a balanced budget. That's the requirement. And then you've got to sit down and negotiate if the folks that you need to work with disagree with you on points.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.
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I set our house on fire when I was a little child playing with lighters. Boy, did I burn the place down!
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If you rent, that's it. You don't have to pay any interest to anybody. You don't have to pay any maintenance costs to anybody. You don't have to worry about whether the boiler is going to break down. While if you own your own home, you have a hundred aggravations.
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It's difficult to make your clients understand that there are certain days that the market will go up or down 2%, and it's basically driven by algorithms talking to algorithms. There's no real rhyme or reason for that. So it's difficult. We just try to preach long-term investing and staying the course.
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A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.
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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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To pump up consumer or government demand would force interest rates up and asset prices down, possibly by enough to destroy more jobs than are created.
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I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.
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I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.
