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- Nov 07, 2020
Downplay Quotes
On what gets talked down, and who benefits from that.
Downplaying something isn't always modesty; sometimes it's a deliberate choice about leadership style or public image, as these quotes show. For more on judging situations fairly, see our Assess quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
People would downplay how good I was, or my athleticism would be the knock, and that added fuel to the fire.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was pretty familiar with TikTok: I always thought its videos would be ironically hilarious. When I became a trending topic on there, it was a crazy moment for me. A lot of people will try to downplay it, but I saw it as something bigger.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not my plan or whatever in my life to be a sex symbol. It never is. You are who you are, but you can't help what you look like. And when you do a film, like for me, it's just not about that. I would prefer to downplay it. I prefer to downplay the sex appeal.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Opponents of New York City's proactive style of policing struggle mightily to downplay its most obvious benefit: the largest crime drop on record, concentrated overwhelmingly in minority neighborhoods.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm probably not your typical business person in many ways. I don't wear a suit. I don't carry a briefcase. I don't wear a tie. I'm fairly casual. I haven't got a big office, and it's in a very ordinary part of town. I'd much prefer to downplay than impress.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Naturally we are aware of the strength of our economy and naturally we don't want to downplay it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, your own instincts, and your own life.
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