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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
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In college I started studying the stock market. I went down to the stock exchange, watched all the activity from the visitors' gallery, people running around, calling numbers, shouting, and all the paper flying and the bells ringing, and of course that was exciting, and it seemed to lend itself to my analytical skills.
- Hemisphere
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.
- Shine
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's just that if you're not disruptive everything seems to be repeated endlessly - not so much the good things but the bland things - the ordinary things - the weaker things get repeated- the stronger things get suppressed and held down and hidden.
- Cross Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those days if you drove cross country and you broke down on the side of the road, and the sign says 200 miles to the next gas station, you knew you were so screwed.
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- Nov 07, 2020
He made it quite clear that if I didn't play the role, I would be dead within a week. As you can imagine, the guy who turned down Hagrid would be like the guy who called the Beatles a guitar band. So I couldn't possibly refuse, really.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing had changed in my routine, except that when I went down the chippy and got me special fried rice, it would be wrapped in a newspaper that had my picture all over it.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to love watching him as a player, so it is a joy to play alongside him. I might take the mickey out of him, but deep down I have so much admiration for him.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at all aspects of all sports, everything comes down to basics and fundamentals.
- Deliberately
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've deliberately tried to calm myself down because eventually I want to be a good role model to my kids.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have anything that I treasure at all. They're just things. I tend to buy an awful lot of stuff, like clothes and things. But I wouldn't be bothered if my house burns down tomorrow.
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- Nov 07, 2020