Down And Quotes - Page 19

• I never really had a career, to be honest with you. I never in my life sat down and planned it. I have thought, 'Oh, I'd like to do this,' like anybody would. But I'm not the type that says, 'If I do this, it will lead to that.'

  Dylan Moran

  Careers, Honest, Type

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• Beware of giving over to mere dreaming when once God has spoken. Leave him to be the source of all your dreams and joys and delights, and go out and obey what He has said. If you are in love, you do not sit down and dream about the one you love all the time, you go and do something for him; and that is what Jesus Christ expects us to do. Dreaming after God has spoken is an indication that we do not trust Him.

  Oswald Chambers

  Dream, Jesus, Love You

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• Hardly any original thoughts on mental or social subjects ever make their way among mankind or assume their proper importance in the minds even of their inventors, until aptly selected words or phrases have as it were nailed them down and held them fast.

  John Stuart Mill

  Mind, Phrases, Original Thought

  John Stuart Mill (1858). “A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation”, p.426

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• Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

  Dolly Parton

  Years, Seven, Plans

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• If the peasants are in open rebellion, then they are outside the law of God. Therefore let all who are able slash, strike down, and kill (those who rebel) openly and secretly, remembering that there can be nothing more venomous, harmful, or devilish than a rebel. It is exactly like killing a mad dog.

  Martin Luther

  Dog, Law, Mad

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• Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up.

  Peter Kreeft

  Pride, Looks

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion”, p.64, Ignatius Press

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• It was right after 9/11 and I decided to walk around the grounds of the Pentagon, because I had never been there. Out of nowhere comes this speeding camouflaged golf cart and this guy starts yelling at me, 'What do you think you're doing!' The guy wrote my name down and began to follow me before I got really scared and took off as fast as I could.

  Bill Burr

  Golf, Thinking, Yelling

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• I stopped listening to Dylan with both ears after Highway 64 (sic) and Blonde on Blonde, and even then it was because George (Harrison) would sit me down and make me listen.

  John Lennon

  Listening, Blonde, Ears

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• 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.

  Noel Coward

  Fool, Accepting, Pacing

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• A good horror movie - it doesn't matter how many comedy horror films there have been before. Doesn't matter how much you think it's going to be funny. A good horror movie will scare the hell out of you... the moment you sit down and you start being exposed to that story, it's going to freeze your blood.

  Fede Alvarez

  Thinking, Blood, Scare

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

  Wayne Dyer

  Perfect, Slow Down, Enjoy

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• There's no great guitarist that doesn't sit down and listen to Chet Atkins and Eddie Van Halen, and all these other great players.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Player, Vans, Van Halen

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• It is not my job to sit down and read peer-reviewed papers because I simply haven't got the time ... I am an interpreter of interpretations.

  James Delingpole

  Jobs, Peers, Paper

  "Propaganda trumps journalism in conservative media climate reporting" by Dana Nuccitelli, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2015.

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• Today, the Lord lets me see the cloud of His glory. It comes down, and I preach in it; and I can see His glory with my eyes open or closed. ... An angel stands by my side and directs me in every miracle service, and he even tells me things that are going to happen ahead of time.

  Ernest Angley

  Eye, Angel, Clouds

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• It's like I'll sit down and put my hands on the piano or the guitar, and then I'll hear a sound or I'll feel a chord that will resonate and then I'll get something happening in my voice. My voice is like a car that I get into and drive but I don't know where I'm going. And I record everything. And often, I sort of get into a state, a creative state that is, where I'm just feeling around melodically, and playing things off the top of my head. Then I go back and listen to it and for the first time, hear what I just did. It's like Elvis has left the building while the thing is happening.

  Beth Nielsen Chapman

  Voice, Piano, Guitar

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• Everyone was saying, "Oh, Chumbawamba, they're crap, can't get arrested." But we had absolute faith in what we were doing, so we put our heads down and made the best album we possibly could. Then we got a deal based on the final product.

  Alice Nutter

  Albums, Finals, Made

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• I was so dyslexic as a kid, and still am, and music was such a great form of escape to me. At school I'd keep my head down and try not to get beat up, and then I'd get home and music would be like a drug to me.

  Daniel Powter

  Home, School, Kids

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• Sometimes I don't pick up the guitar for six months or so," "Other times I get away, go to a hotel or something, to write songs. Or go stay with a friend and bring the dog and do stuff away from my normal routine. Then I sit down and play guitar at night. I do it differently every time . There is no set way.

  Holly Golightly

  Dog, Song, Writing

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• I don't just sit down and write all day, or the songs would be weird or stupid. They would be about different stupid thoughts that I go through.

  Syleena Johnson

  Song, Stupid, Writing

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• Most black singers like to slow the word down and, and go directly to your heart. They're not interested in your ears, we just want to go directly to your heart.

  Ben E. King

  Heart, Black, Ears

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• We need a president who understands the first obligation of the commander-in-chief is to keep America safe. If I am elected president, we will hunt down and kill the terrorists. We will utterly destroy ISIS.

  Ted Cruz

  Isis, America, President

  Ted Cruz at the second GOP debate at the Venetian Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• I've also got a kind of rule where if I don't write it down and I can still remember it it's worth remembering!

  Thighpaulsandra

  Writing, Kind, Remember

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I mean, everyone has to calm down sometime. I'll still smoke up and party, but yeah, eventually you gotta settle down and be an adult. But still have fun. Demi's helped me sort of like, understand that down the road it'll just happen.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Fun, Party, Mean

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• By becoming intimate with how we close down and how we open up, we awaken our unlimited potential.

  Pema Chodron

  Unlimited Potential, Becoming, Intimate

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.52, Shambhala Publications

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• There are a lot of great jokes you can sit down and write, but that's just a written joke, versus the comedy of the situation. Ideally, you're pulling as much comedy out of the situation as you can.

  John Mulaney

  Writing, Comedy, Situation

  "UPROXX Interview: John Mulaney On ‘Mulaney,’ Louis C.K.’s Advice, And ‘SNL’". Interview with Josh Kurp, uproxx.com. October 3, 2014.

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