- Experience
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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
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
When dad told me Mr Steptoe had passed away, I broke down.
- Dozens
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the U.K., but I'm not confident there will be any takers.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a man who was an associate of jimmy Hoffa, who testified against Hoffa in his trial down in Tennessee. We had information from him that he and Hoffa did, in fact, discuss the planning of an assassination conspiracy against Bobby Kennedy.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clearly I'm able to read emotions. But I do feel... What is it? Awkwardness. I'm not a slick dude. That's what it comes down to. The nakedness, the guilelessness... that's quite real.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are actors in this town who made important careers for a long, long period just by taking the parts that Cary Grant turned down.
- Force
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- Nov 07, 2020
When volume drops off, prices settle down. Volume is the force that turns stocks higher.
- Drag
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- Nov 07, 2020
In computers, we do all kinds of manual manipulations. We grab and drag icons. We click on and open windows. We pull down a screen. We stretch a screen. We scroll up and down.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Friday was Atlanta. That was fifteen bucks. Once a month, we made a six hundred mile trip from Indianapolis down to Atlanta, and at fifteen dollars, by the time you feed yourself and buy gasoline, you're minus about ten bucks.
- Bad One
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I'd make one a week and finally I'd pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I'm trying to keep it down to one a season.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything was coming my way, but I was going down. I was painfully empty.
- Nov 07, 2020
Wife number four destroyed me absolutely: took me down to the bottom of the barrel because I had three kids with her.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to support groups that are about educating people about different races, different religions, different cultures and different situations so that we can break down the barriers of prejudice and bigotry.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I listen to a lot of Christian music, and reading my Bible calms me down immensely.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing is, it's that Detroiters are hard workers. We've always been hard workers, even when times are down. I've been able to take that with me, that work ethic, to help me build my career.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020