- Bubbling
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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
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been going to the gym instead of the bar, trying to get back down to my fighting weight.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never sat down and tried to write something for some occasion. You just write the tune and stay totally wide open to everything. It'll find the person or persons who are supposed to do it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I behaved poorly by starting this whole thing and I made some mistakes in dealing with it, and they made some mistakes in dealing with me, and taking down all my stuff was probably one of them.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like immense time-binding discussions, genres allow ideas to be developed and traded, and for variations to be spun down through decades.
- Nov 07, 2020
The world is neither running down nor deterministic, and a strict division of order versus chaos is just wrong.
- Deep Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's most satisfying to have an effect on the public realm - deep down I think it's what every architect wants to do.
- Architecture
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- Nov 07, 2020
To go back to architecture, what's organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale.
- Fearsome
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- Nov 07, 2020
Flying through a hurricane is the most fearsome shaking you will ever get. Everything has to be tied down in the airplane. And the IMAX camera has to be rock-steady through all this. We had to design special mounts on the left and right sides of the cabin and in the cockpit to hold the cameras.
- Nov 07, 2020
I can't seem to escape comedy. Whenever I sit down and try to write something serious, it just doesn't work.
- Basketball
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dream is to be able to play basketball, and if I can go out there and do it, run up and down, and come off the court again healthy, that's goal one.
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm excited by going 85 mph, head-first, down an ice track.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science is the first expression of punk, because it doesn't advance without challenging authority. It doesn't make progress without tearing down what was there before and building upon the structure.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1954, Guatemala's deposed president, the democratically elected Jacobo Arbenz, was forced to strip down to his underwear and photographed before being allowed to leave the country.
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- Nov 07, 2020