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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
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You never know what happens a few years down the line.
- Nov 07, 2020
I usually get down with a little Violent Femmes in the summer. You know, 'Blister In The Sun.'
- Management
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're in the car, how well you do is down to you and you alone-no band, no management, no marketing.
- Embarking
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- Nov 07, 2020
After studying in Sheffield, I went down to London to do my post-graduate degree at the National Film and Television School, embarking on the movie that would eventually become 'A Grand Day Out.'
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
The theory that if wages go up, employment goes down isn't a physical law like F=MA. It's a moral law, like 'Bedtime is 9:00 P.M.'
- Gripping
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think lots of boys sat down with 'The Three Musketeers' and felt it was a really long book, but then discovered that it's a really gripping swashbuckling story.
- Fitness
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Sevens, fitness is crucial, and it's going to come down to how quickly my body gets in shape.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
Google and others truncate headlines at 70 characters. On the Manti Teo story, Deadspin's scoop fell down the Google search results, overtaken by copycat stories with simpler headlines. Deadspin's headline was 118 characters. Vital information - 'hoax' - was one of the words that was cut off.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
You could argue that as web audiences have grown larger and advertisers have demanded scale, the web has dumbed down - like the mainstream media we so mocked.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
The original idea of blog publishing was that writer and reader would be on the same level. That it would be a conversation - not a lecture. People lost sight of that. We didn't. Kinja is designed to break down the walls of the ghettos. So that everybody - editor, writer, source, subject, expert, fan - can be a contributor.
- Flew
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coach Pederson is the one who drafted me. He was the only coach who flew down to Texas and worked me out. I was only worked out by one team, and that was by Coach Pederson... the Philadelphia Eagles took a chance on me.
- Slow
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- Nov 07, 2020