- Fairies
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- Nov 07, 2020
Down Quotes
Working the count, and watching things slip.
This page uses "down" across very different contexts — a baseball strategy built on working the count against a hitter's expectations, and a theory of absurdist humor rooted deep in the subconscious. For lighter, forward-looking sayings, try Downside quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
They all went down in droves because just scenes of palm trees and beaches can get pretty boring.
- Ignore
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the moves I've made have come after I sat down with my family and my agent and thought what was the best move. I've never rushed into something, never gone anywhere where I wasn't sure 100%.
- Nov 07, 2020
A good executive, when things aren't going well, gets down and finds out what's going wrong and tries to fix it.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
The concept of Red was to build a camera with as much capability as possible... for the professional market. Then we thought we could extend it down a bit to the prosumer level. Apparently, that was a mistake.
- Dumb
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were one of the first to say, 'Let's make a really nice shirt for skaters and let's make it really well.' We don't dumb down for somebody young; we are always trying to do something new.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any brand in the world wants to make desirable product. But we don't shove it down people's throats.
- Assured
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the local reporters assured me Garrison would put in an appearance for the cross-examination, but as the courtroom settled down and the rear doors were closed, there was no sign of him.
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose I'm always trying to break down the wall between my characters and myself. I'm trying to make the film as expressive and personal as I can, even if I can't explain, for example, how important it is for me to be Jewish.
- Reading
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're writing a song, you have to write something that can be understood serially. When you're reading a poem that's written for the page, your eye can skip up and down. You can see the thing whole. But you're not going to see the thing whole in the song. You're going to hear it in series, and you can't skip back.
- Elizabethan
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- Nov 07, 2020
Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is surprising that so little of any value has been added since.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which the poem itself has to respond to.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
The stock market can be down, but the stock market is not an indication of where people's spirits and enthusiam are, and where their intellectual energy is.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020