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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been trying to write a book since before I was old enough to vote, and I've collected many rejection slips from publishers and magazines. I used to keep them all stuck to my refrigerator, with magnets, but an ex-girlfriend told me they were depressing, and defeatist, and suggested I take them down. A very wise suggestion on her part.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to get physical on defense. I like to get up on a guy as much as possible. I actually need to calm down, though.
- Figuring
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kind of making that leap from a team that wins occasionally to a team that wins the majority of the time, a lot of times just comes down with figuring out how tough it is to win, and then executing down the stretch to do it.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's OK to turn down stuff that isn't really interesting and spend the summer with my family.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
- Step
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
- Right
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have built up, through our global engagement, a set of institutions that have been built on trust, fundamentally on trust, where allies had trust in the United States to do the right thing when it really came down to it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not unusual for people to like Florida in the winter. I'm not a great tourist. I like coming down to work.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've sort of knocked cancer down to size. It shouldn't be something that makes people uncomfortable.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived in Boston for four or five years and would commute to New York to play gigs. New York City became so expensive, all the recording studios started shutting down because they couldn't afford rent anymore.
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- Nov 07, 2020