- Love
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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
- Energy Independence
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the world market believed that we were serious about energy independence and we were going to utilize all of our own existing resources, the speculators would stop speculating up they start speculating down as we get our own oil out of the ground.
- Luxury
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers, I can afford the luxury of going through the contact sheets for black-and-white, making up work prints, seeing them big, and honing them down.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
NASA has never had a problem finding capable people to be astronauts. NASA's problem was, and still is, finding ways to cut the list of capable applicants down to a manageable length.
- Nov 07, 2020
We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity.
- Dock
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- Nov 07, 2020
Companies selling a product play down its vulnerability and emphasize its robustness. But only after technology leaves the dock is it really tested. For human operators in control of a supposedly infallible system, complacency and overconfidence can take over, and caution may be thrown to the wind.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was always a struggle with being Asian and not being Asian enough. It's going to be down to me to own my race.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don't want to go.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I see a car I've designed going down the street and somebody admiring it, that's a nice feeling.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without growth we can't pay down our debt, and without growth there's no money for welfare.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020