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• If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Fall, Thinking, Ceilings

  Alexander McCall Smith (2006). “The Right Attitude to Rain”, p.110, Anchor

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• As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning, . . . [then] they fall down the curtains.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Morning, Fall, Winter

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• You don't become a Republican until you lose all your baby teeth and fall down a lot and get the croup and then become angry and bitter.

  Margaret Cho

  Baby, Fall, Teeth

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• All of the heroes
  you see falling down
  were filmed trying to stand up.

  Mary Ruefle

  Fall, Hero, Trying

  Mary Ruefle (1989). “The Adamant”, p.69, University of Iowa Press

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• When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Distance, Fall, Confusion

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• You know in cartoons, the way someone can run off a cliff and they're fine, they don't fall down until they look down? My mom always said that was the secret of life. Never look down. But it's more than that. It's not just about looking. It's about never realizing that you're in the middle of the air and you don't know how to fly.

  Dakota Fanning

  Mom, Running, Fall

  "Fictional character: Allie Keys". "Taken" (miniseries), 2002.

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• I am pleased to see from the laughter on the Ministerial benches that there is no implication on their part to take Sir Oswald Mosley too seriously. It can easily be seen to-day that this idea of a dictator is gradually falling down.

  Clement Attlee

  Laughter, Fall, Ideas

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• If you want to zoom down the expert slope tomorrow, you have to fall down the bunny slope today.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Fall, Teaching, Assessment

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• I'm never gonna be somebody who's gonna fall down from the sky on a trapeze. That's not me. I really want to make sure that my focus stays on connecting with the audience.

  Sara Bareilles

  Fall, Sky, Focus

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning. They give themselves a last wash and brush-up, their oscillated eyes roll, and they fall down the curtains.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Morning, Fall, Eye

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.224, Verso

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• If you fall down, get up and walk again.
  If you can't walk, crawl.
  If  that idea fails, have another one
  It doesn't happen by accident.
  It takes a lot of hard work.

  Dick Clark

  Fall, Hard Work, Ideas

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• A lot of what I do is about being in the moment and I think that's hard for people to get. I like it when things suddenly affect the painting. I mix up this red and it affects the whole painting or this little bit of white falls down there, and something changes the whole nature of the thing. The residue on what happens, that's what's in the paintings.

  Julian Schnabel

  Fall, Thinking, White

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• The atom can't be seen, yet its existence can be proved. And it is simple to prove that it can't ever be seen. It has to be studied by indirect evidence - and the technical difficulty has been compared to asking a man who has never seen a piano to describe a piano from the sound it would make falling downstairs in the dark.

  Carl David Anderson

  Fall, Dark, Men

  "Carl Anderson. Some notes about his life and work at Caltech. The first of a series of biographical sketches of Caltech faculty members". Engineering and Science, Volume 15:1, October 1951.

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• The only way to avoid cannon-shot is to fall down. No such way to be freed from temptation as to keep low.

  Thomas Brooks

  Fall, Temptation, Way

  Thomas Brooks (1866). “The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed”, p.36

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• I'm only human, and I bleed when I fall down.

  Christina Perri

  Fall, I'm Only Human, Humans

  Song: Human Christina Perri, 2014

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• My heart went cold and only hollow rhythms resounded from within, but then he rose, brilliant as the moon in full and sank in the burrows of my keep, and all my armor, falling down, in a pile at my feet.

  Fiona Apple

  Fall, Heart, Moon

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• I really, really fear head injuries. But when people hit their heads in movies or fall down - I can't stop laughing.

  Rachel Zucker

  Fall, People, Laughing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Comedy is easy. First, people have to fall down. Next, include someone a little hefty. It's a hoot.

  Sarah Kane

  Fall, People, Littles

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• When you fall down, just get up again.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Fall, Get Up

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• John McCain is falling down on the job. He has gotten weak. He has gotten old. I do want to wish him a happy birthday. He is going to be 80 on Monday and I want to give him the best birthday present ever, the gift of retirement.

  Kelli Ward

  Monday, Retirement, Jobs

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Without a doubt, because now in the music business talent and hard work isn't enough. There is just a lot of luck and marketing money involved in making any artist break. "Fall Down" is about a relationship, but you could certainly apply it to the relationship we've had with each other and throughout our career.

  Jason C. Miller

  Fall, Hard Work, Artist

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• You know what daring really is to me? It's maybe much more simple: the willingness to get up and try it again. It's not about whether or not you fall down, it's how you get back up. And I've taken quite a few tumbles, myself.

  Uma Thurman

  Fall, Taken, Simple

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Man, if he would live, must worship. He looks around, and what to him, within the vision of his life, is the greatest and the best, that he falls down and does reverence to.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Fall, Men, Vision

  Jerome K. Jerome “Clocks”, Library of Alexandria

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• Dad, girls don't fall down every time they run.

  Wes Craven

  Girl, Running, Dad

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• [A businessmen in plane after 9\11] asked me, "What are you working on now?" And I said I was writing a story about a mouse who tries to save a princess. I was mortified. Here the world is falling down around us, and I'm trying to tell the story about a mouse who saves a princess. I said "It doesn't matter at all now."

  Kate DiCamillo

  Princess, Fall, Writing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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