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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
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States has tried for years to live down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's order during World War II to move Japanese-Americans on the West Coast to inland detention camps on grounds that they might be disloyal.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
There've been times when I've bought a whole pound of cheese and walked down the street and eaten it in one go.
- Bending
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- Nov 07, 2020
The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing sexy about doing a nude scene. It's rather uncomfortable. I like dressing up rather than dressing down.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think of myself as being a bit of a wimp deep down - a bourgeois wimp - and I'm fighting that. I think all Brits are, maybe.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't let a failure keep you down, because if you stay down after you fail, you are going to stay down for good.
- Struggle
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't write about a personal struggle if you're going to water it down to meet everyone's expectations about what's appropriate.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
As early as December 1945, I accompanied my wife and a few relatives in their return from evacuation in the countryside to Cologne, where over the years we settled down in a destroyed house.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever I was going into, whether it was going to be chorus or history or astronomy or whatever, do it right. Be a professional. Don't just do a half baked job. Do everything correctly. Get down. Learn the details of what you're going to do.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I decided to become an actress, I think I let some people down. It was a kind of rebellion.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've just been writing stuff down as it comes to me. I haven't thought, 'Let me write some major opus here.'
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned to start from a really sound argument, boil down the essence of what you're trying to say, then build your humor around that, rather than starting with, 'This sounds funny,' and going from there.
- Hill
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't live on a hill. I live down under a hill, in the bottom and I've got a lot of cars, yeah.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not cowardly, quite the contrary, to seek to meet the adversary and know his intentions. However, it is cowardly, shameful and treasonable to lay down arms.
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020