- Money
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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
- Different Shapes
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trouble is, once you say something about a source, then you've pegged it down, and so now I'm reluctant to say anything. If I say I developed 50 different shapes from Mississippian tumuli, that doesn't mean they're copies of tumuli - I'm not ripping off those shapes.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference.
- Nov 07, 2020
However one reaches the parks, the main thing is to slow down and absorb the natural wonders at leisure.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ideally if I settled down with a wife I would love to form my own troupe of mini dancers!
- Rain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers' movement, I have discovered, and I don't mean only those who reject the idea of global warming but those who insist that smoking doesn't cause cancer or that industrial pollution isn't linked to acid rain.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the barbershop, there's democracy. You're a professor; you're an engineer; you're a garbage man, have at it. You got something to say, get down with it.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Within weeks of the Ebola hoax dying down, the guys at Health Africa International approached my friends George Weah, Mahamadou Diarra, and I to be part of the initiative in using various forms of communication to promote a Ebola prevention education programme.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the kind of person who likes to be lonely. I got my head down and focused on getting fit.
- Makeup
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- Nov 07, 2020
My movies are usually about stripping off the makeup, getting down to the skeleton.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American media produce a product of very poor quality. Its information is not reliable, it has too much chrome and glitz, its doors rattle, it breaks down almost immediately, and it's sold without warranty. It's flashy, but it's basically junk.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe sometimes I'm such a thinker, I reevaluate too much. Sometimes when it comes down to it, I really don't need to do anything, I don't really need to change anything. I need to just keep plugging away, working at it.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been involved in this sport since I was eight years old, so, hopefully, I can train and coach athletes down the line.
- Harder
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bigger you are, the harder they come down on you.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020