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The Great Gatsby
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The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

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I want to be judged harshly because that forces me to really sit down and focus.

– Seth Grahame-Smith

I was paralyzed from the chest down when I was 19, so I kind of put my head together about dying, and I think I’ve come to terms with it.

– Wes Craven

That’s what they do in Europe. You go down to the city hall and you become legally connected. You have a civil union there. Then, if you’re religious, you go down to the church, and the church blesses the union. That gets the problem solved.

– Tony Campolo

I’m more of a guy’s girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don’t bicker or sit down and do my nails.

– Zoe Saldana

The missing toothbrush was nothing compared with the fact that the spacecraft was orientated to ascend, not descend. I would have gone up and up instead of going back down to the ground.

– Valentina Tereshkova

I’m trying to cut down my cursing.

– Solange Knowles

Through the ages, God has used the church to keep alive and pass down the story of what Christ has done for us.

– Tony Campolo

You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

– William J. H. Boetcker

Meanwhile, hard-working Americans are increasingly faced with workplace conditions in which critically important safeguards are watered down, emerging problems are ignored, and enforcement is scaled back.

– Tim Bishop

But once you strip that down, you realize it’s all about a voice, like a Norah Jones – that’s inspiring to me.

– Taylor Dayne

You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

– Stephen King

I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.

– Stephen Fry

In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms’s four symphonies and Richard Strauss’s tone poems.

– Zubin Mehta

By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths.

– Tim O’Brien

In New York, we get down. In L.A., everybody’s pretty much standing around like they’re at a keg stand. You got to get the party started, so I just take my shirt off.

– Tracy Morgan

I know when I get down and discouraged, it’s hard for me to be able to just see anything except for right where I am.

– Victoria Osteen

People need to look at wildlife conservation in its totality. As soon as you lose the apex predator, it has harmful consequences right down the food chain.

– Thomas Kaplan

The issues that we face as a country and in South Florida aren’t broken down by city line or county line.

– Ted Deutch

I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

– Wayne Dyer

Let’s put it this way: The animal inside of me has not quieted down yet. It’s still there. It’s still fighting.

– Troy Dumais

I moved around a lot when I was a child; two of the houses I grew up in have totally disappeared. One was burnt in a riot, and the other was pulled down.

– Toyin Odutola

It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.

– Vince Lombardi

Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn’t do auditions.

– Zlatan Ibrahimovic

If you meet somebody who’s spent any length of time in prison, you don’t let your guard down. Ever. And really, that’s what that was about-if you open up too much, you’re asking to get your teeth kicked in.

– Tim Roth

I started skating when I was about 10 years old. It was in an alleyway. I picked up my brother’s skateboard and stood on it. I started to roll down the alley, and I yelled at my brother asking him how I turn the thing. At the end of the alley, I just jumped off, picked up the board and physically turned it around.

– Tony Hawk

As a solo performer, it’s total involvement. What I do is to break down the wall between audience and performer.

– Taj Mahal

Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.

– Walter O’Brien

If fear grows fat on the energy you feed it, you have to talk it down.

– Scilla Elworthy

Money you know you need or want to spend in the next few years is savings. Money you keep handy for an emergency belongs in savings. Money you hope to use soon for a down payment on a house belongs in savings. And all savings belong in a low-risk bank savings account or money market account.

– Suze Orman

The desert is cold early in the morning. Laying down on that sand is like laying on a block of ice.

– Steven Michael Quezada

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