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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
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it.
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
On Tuesday 26 July 2011, I was arrested in front of the White House along with a dozen other pro-immigrant advocates and clergy. We sat down on the sidewalk in front of the White House with a banner that read 'One Million Deported Under President Obama' and refused to move when the police ordered us to.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
- Her
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- Nov 07, 2020
Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
In so many interviews, they bring up the sexual aspect of the record. I've had some journalists say it sounds like I'm lying down in bed singing with a microphone. It gets so old!
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a time in the mid-1950s when the Philippines was in the same league as Japan economically and academically. Fifty years down the road, and we are almost dead last in the ASEAN region.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to play at the top level in Europe, and PSG offered me a precious opportunity I couldn't turn down.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even if censorship might encourage creative ways to circumvent it, it still slows down progress and our ability to realise our full creative potential. And that is why I vehemently fight against it.
- Collaborating
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- Nov 07, 2020
My thing with New York was that it felt so insular. When I went to L.A., everybody I knew was a cool, amazing musician. In New York, they'd be hunkered down trying to form a band. But in L.A., guys in bands were also playing with other artists, touring with other artists, and collaborating with other artists.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020