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Pranking is ultimately turning the world upside down. It's in good fun.

I don't regret anything that I've turned down, and I don't regret anything that I've done, really.

It's no good pacing up and down. It won't make the plane arrive any faster. Just sit down and accept that we're delayed. You're just making a fool of yourself.

We are speeding up our lives and working harder in a futile attempt to buy the time to slow down and enjoy it.

Each time a high-wage job is lost, a family is turned upside down. And that affects the communities where they live.

When I write I get to the point where I slow down and I gotta go back into the world and live nahmean.

My career has been up and down, and I like it much better being up.

I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs.

There’s nothing wrong with wanting to be with someone,” I said diplomatically. Unless that person turns your world upside down and makes you lose all self-control.

During an early performance of 'Spamalot,' I left my regal gloves in the fridge to cool down and didn't remember them until I was on stage. They needed to be thawed overnight.

Stab me if you can enjoy it - but not if it feels like a duty. Stab me vertically if I'm lying down and horizontally if I'm running

The Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of Goodness and Love.

Think of it like running down a slope. If you attempt to slow down and choose your steps, you’re bound to trip up and stumble.

Prior to [streaming], the idea of sitting down and watching a show every week seemed like a great idea.

I came to running late. It was something I had always wanted to do, but I always end up getting hurt. It didn't occur to me that I could actually slow down and walk a little bit!

We don't ever want to shut down and say, I'm afraid to go that far down the road because there's going to be pain. There'll be beauty, too, and if you stop here, you stop all that.

It's all perfect, this Universe we are in. Slow down and enjoy it all.

For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.

I knew all the time I was going to get through the war. It was completely irrational, a silly idea, but I was not going to lie down and get myself killed. I was going to get out of it.

I work out. I used to go to yoga every day. Now I just incorporate yoga into my warm-up and my cool down. I drink a lot of water, and I go to therapy.

Managers focus on short-term goals versus opportunities or challenges coming down the road.

We should be wary, particularly with our closest friends and allies, of breaking down the trust and confidence that lie at the foundation of relationships.

These precious illusions in my head did not let me down when I was defenseless, and parting with them is like parting with invisible best friends.

My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.

My mother was supportive without knowing it. Deep down she wanted all the right things, she just didn't see the world like I did, and she's not supposed to.

I believe it is my responsibility to do what I can for children and people with Down syndrome as well as in my native Dominican Republic.

I got turned down for a million jobs until I got my first movie with Francis [Ford Coppola].

It's an hour during the week where you can just slow down.

I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.

Starting out, I remember being on the same bill with other bands, and I always thought they were so much better because they were rehearsed and had all their moves down and they sounded really tight.

Country manners. Even if somebody phones up to tell you your house is burning down, they ask first how you are.

I wish airplanes were more like elementary school with someone up front telling everyone to sit down and shut up.

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

Sometimes you have to get down and dirty. It feels good.

You can't invent Google, Facebook or the iPod unless you've mastered the basics, are willing to put in long hours and can pick yourself up from the floor when life knocks you down the first 10 times.

I agree that dreams seem to be involved in laying down memories but I realise that dreaming gives us access to a part of our brain we do not normally have access to.

Emotions are like passing storms, and you have to remind yourself that it won't rain forever. You just have to sit down and watch it pour outside and then peek your head out when it looks dry.

I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written.

I feel confident writing on my feet with improv, but it's different when you're sitting down and writing it out.

A lot of what I do in my work is taking a thing and either washing it off, scraping it, covering it, scraping it and then washing it, turning it upside down. Making it somehow blind.

Being in New York City is the best because I'm always walking, taking the subway and walking up and down the stairs - whether you like it or not, you're going to get exercise.

Will you come down and kiss me good night?

I don't feel I'm very present in each moment. I feel like every moment I'm either thinking about something that's coming down the road or something that's been in the past.

I think everybody gets their recognition sometime down the road, and I have never been one to seek it. Besides, it has been that way throughout my career, especially in college.

I went down and spoke to some of the people who lived in the neighborhood in Miami. At the end of the day I think my connection with Tarell [Alvin McCraney] is what helped me the most.

If I'm serious about patients and their GPs being able to have more control of their health care, I can't have a top-down system that imposes restrictions on the services they need.

Fear is that thing that keeps you up there on that other plateau. Fear is that thing that just keeps you closed down, and quite frankly, alone.

I never just sit down and see what's on TV anymore. And also, I hate almost everything, so that keeps you reading magazines and doing crossword puzzles or whatever.

I never regretted what I turned down.

I wish I could find people who just would fight me and break through to me and hold me down and scream their life into my face.