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I called Kevin Spacey one day about something else, but he didnt say to me calm down, like The New York Times said. Because I was not deranged.

I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.

I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.

The tennis ball doesn't know how old I am. The ball doesn't know if I'm a man or a woman or if I come from a communist country or not. Sport has always broken down these barriers.

My beard grows down to my toes, I never wears no clothes, I wraps my hair Around my bare, And down the road I goes.

I never used to see anything on TV where the man was in the weaker position. It was always the female showing emotion, breaking down, being emotionally torn apart by men.

After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same.

I often wonder how different the world would be if Hitler had not been turned down when he applied to art school.

Ask yourself to slow down.

All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work.

Greece's history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster.

The people in Louisiana must know that all across our country there's a lot of prayer - prayer for those whose lives have been turned upside down. And I'm one of them.

If you ever get in real trouble, don't panic. Sit down and think about it. Remember two things, always. There must be some way out of it and there must be humor in it somewhere.

Eat better or work out more, and youll see the benefits weeks, months or years down the road. Sleep more, and youll see the benefits tomorrow.

In my grandmother's house there was always chicken soup And talk of the old country--mud and boards, Poverty, The snow falling down and necks of lovers.

I love Christmas. A time to slow down and enjoy life and be with my family and friends. In busy years, it keeps me sane. In bad years, it makes me feel whole again.

The truth of the matter is that the people who succeed in the arts most often are the people who get up again after getting knocked down. Persistence is critical.

But how did you come burning down like a wild needle, knowing just where my heart was?

Our philosophy is to go for one company at a time, and go for its finances. If we had gone down and protested outside HLS every day for the last five years we would have got nowhere

I got a lot of grief from my teammates about that. It might backfire on my mom. Hopefully, my brother will have another chance somewhere down the road.

For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.

Do the moment-to-moment work of dropping anything that wants to drag you down, and Reality itself will see to it that you rise.

There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.

I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down.

The new painting has broken down every distinction between art and life.

Sin has a way of shrinking God down and puffing ourselves up.

Slow down? Rest? With all eternity before me?

The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer, And, singing gently ever, Dips under the water clear.

I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.

When the going got tough, I really had to draw on many of the same competitive instincts I did when I was skating. I really had to put my head down and stay positive. I had to fight.

We feel that we have to be right so that we can feel good... The whole right and wrong business closes us down and makes our world smaller.

Deep down, the Iraqi people want the United States out. And their self-determination should be respected.

Some people never get their feet on the ground, They're either sitting in a chair or theyre laying down.

I love sitting down and having actual conversations. But I don't do that sound-bite, be-candidly-funny thing.

'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.

I turned down Prince William's invitation for me to sing at his birthday bash because he was spearing animals in Africa and bringing publicity to it, and I thought that was pretty disgusting!

No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States and compounding the American people into one common mass.

I feel safe in white because deep down inside, I'm an angel.

There's always an imbalance with actors and actresses in the industry. And I think because there are just fewer movies overall being made, it's that trickle down effect.

And one of his partners asked Has he vertigo? and the other glanced out and down and said Oh no, only about ten feet more.

The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.

I know I'm a person who's been bugged for years about the up and down weight thing.

When you are happy, be thankful and your happiness is greatly multiplied. When you are feeling down, be thankful and youll soon be feeling much better.

Deep down, I'm a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically, I look forward to being a cornerstone of a family. I'll be in my glory when I have a child on my knee.

I had turned down other head chef jobs. I didn't want to take over someone else's cuisine. I wanted to start from scratch.

It's always mildly unnerving when you're hanging upside down 70 feet in the air.

That's true, you don't want to let anybody down and here are millions of people who've been waiting for their favorite characters to be brought to life and you don't want to disappoint.

I don't like getting patted down and taking off my shoes at the airport.

To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes.