- 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
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I used to dribble, I'd be on the wing, and I'd control it with the outside of my foot - it slows the ball down.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Monetary policy is like juggling six balls... it is not 'interest rate up, interest rate down.' There is the exchange rate, there are long term yields, there are short term yields, there is credit growth.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have said repeatedly that the way to sustainable growth is to bring down inflation to much more reasonable levels.
- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't heard Obama ask us for our consent when he's trying to ram Obamacare down our throats.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
- Matters
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- Nov 07, 2020
Falling down doesn't matter, even if you do it a hundred times. All that matters is that you get up again.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't grow up or learn how to fully serve myself until I got my head down in the theatre.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter what strategies you make, if you don't get the right script, everything is going to go down.
- Chuckle
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the '50s, audiences accepted a level of artifice that the audiences in 1966 would chuckle at. And the audiences of 1978 would chuckle at what the audience of 1966 said was okay, too. The trick is to try to be way ahead of that curve, so they're not chuckling at your movies 20 years down the line.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always write these movies that are far too big for any paying customer to sit down and watch from beginning to end, and so I always have this big novel that I have to adapt into a movie as I go.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.
- Discrimination
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- Nov 07, 2020