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There are 31.536.000 seconds in a year. I am counting down every second.

Be at peace with yourself, or you'll be at war with everyone.

Many great people have experienced some kind of failure. They build on the lessons from failing to become great.

Zero is the number people often feel, more so than one.

Maybe I don't know him as well as I thought. Maybe I didn't know myself. Maybe my world is turning upside down and I can't find my footing.

Mirabelle sat down, dropping into the cushions like a ball being caught in a large leather glove.

If talk is cheap, then being silent is expensive. And many people it seems, can't afford to buy into it.

Now, when it's time to get down to business, I get down to business.

I have a very childish attitude to books - a very non-analytic enthusiasm... like Alice falling down the chute.

Masculinity comes from your look, all the way down to your attitude. It's a big part of being a tennis player. Even though tennis is a fairly friendly sport, intimidation is still a big part of it.

You've gotta dive into the abyss if you wanna get anything good. Every record, you've gotta go down in the abyss and hope that you come out of it alive.

I respect Billy Joel, but I'm not a guy who's gonna sit down and listen to the entire 'Essential Billy Joel.'

In Australia, even the darkest subject matter has a little pinch of humor. A little sweet to make the sour go down.

Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.

If you don't infuse humor into a subject matter, no matter how dark, the audience can't accept the message of a film. It closes them down. Humor can open them up.

You can't let a failure keep you down, because if you stay down after you fail, you are going to stay down for good.

The break down for kids is communication. Music helps bring that bond.

Sports gives us the grandest opportunity of all to talk about reaching down and helping up or getting on somebody else's shoulders.

I was into sports and swimming as a kid and didn't spend a whole lot of time sitting down. I was a gymnast.

If you look at all aspects of all sports, everything comes down to basics and fundamentals.

The NFL is one of the few sports where it's possible to tear things down and start again.

If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up.

Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition.

Managerial and professional people hadn't really used computers, hadn't sat down at keyboards, until personal computers. Personal computers have a totally different feel.

I'm not on Twitter or Facebook and don't even use email. I don't trust computers: one day they'll all break down, and everyone will be knackered.

If you're an English actor, and you're asked to do an episode - especially the Christmas episode - of 'Downton Abbey, ' you can't turn it down. It's like, 'Of course!'

Capitalism invariably boils down to barter between two willing parties, neither of whom uses force to work with the other.

The famous pilot season literally sends shivers down my spine.

Famous old houses seem to have an intuitive perception of the value of corner lots. If it is a possible thing, they always set themselves down on the most desirable spots.

Giant oak trees... have deep root systems that can extend two-and-one-half times their height. Such trees rarely are blown down regardless of how violent the storms may be.

Science is the first expression of punk, because it doesn't advance without challenging authority. It doesn't make progress without tearing down what was there before and building upon the structure.

I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.

During my teen years, I was real emotional. I could be really up or down.

I look at you and I write down what I hear.

No one expects the doormat to stand upright, shake itself off, and amble down the street to seek its own happiness.

I'm a big believer in creating family traditions. Every Tuesday morning, I make a proper eggs breakfast, and we all sit down and eat.

I love figuring out a stranger, sitting down and learning about their loves and struggles and everything. People are my jam.

Junk food drags you down.

Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down.

I think Hefner himself wants to go down in history as a person of sophistication and glamour. But the last person I would want to go down in history as is Hugh Hefner.

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

Authors want their names down in history I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.

It's pretty amazing to see something in your head and write it down, go out and shoot it, then see it on the big screen. It's a pretty amazing feeling.

It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on down, keep invoking the name of my grandfather, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

The Democrats just don't have a foreign policy that they're willing to defend, that they're willing to use to take down the president's. We're dealing with the power of suggestion here.

Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country down. Never. Never. Ordinary people like us. Who do extraordinary things.

The House of Representatives should not be locked down by the decided play of a few in leadership.

The doctor asked what my diet was like and I had to sit down and realize it's not normal, and hadn't been normal for about 20 years.

I broke down while at Oxford, was rejected by a record number of medical tribunals during the War, and finally got permission to leave Oxford and do civilian work till the War ended.