Letdowns Quotes

• You don't want to be the first person to tell your 5-year-old, like, 'You're going to have a life filled with disappointments and letdowns - enjoy!'

  Maya Rudolph

  Disappointment, Years, Want

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• Regardless of how good or bad a collection might be, it's a letdown after the show is over. It's done. Something you've worked on for months is just over.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Done, Might, Months

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

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• You dream about the Olympics for so long and you have that one day, then it's over, and when you don't run well there is this huge letdown. It took me years to deal with that. I feel like I almost had to cleanse myself of that experience.

  Ryan Hall

  Running, Dream, Years

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• Young people have so many letdowns that people don't realize.

  Ione Skye

  People, Realizing, Young

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• The moment I think about past letdowns or future hypotheticals, I mentally put myself on shaky ground. If I clear my mind of chatter, I can succeed, just like I did in 2006.

  Julia Mancuso

  Past, Thinking, Mind

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• I'm not concerned about avoiding anything that happened three years ago or worried about letdowns or things of that nature. When you use the term 'letdown' you proceed with the assumption that this is a continuation of something that happened in the past.

  Mike Tomlin

  Past, Years, Use

  "Tomlin Looks Ahead". Interview with Ed Bouchette, www.post-gazette.com. August 01, 2009.

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• The destiny of photography has taken it far beyond the role to which it was originally thought to be limited: to give more accurate reports on reality (including works of art). Photography is the reality; the real object is often experienced as a letdown.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Art, Real

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.129, Macmillan

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• Sometimes people feel disappointed when they hear about practicing compassion: "You mean I have to be nice?" It's kind of a letdown. We often overlook compassion, seeing it as merely a pit stop on the way to more advanced practices. We want something more; we don't even know what. But that's just a trick of our mind. One of the greatest teachings is to practice compassion.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Sympathy, Buddhist, Disappointment

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• You're the first Shadowhunter I've ever met." “That’s too bad,” said Jace, “since all the others you meet from now on will be a terrible letdown.

  Cassandra Clare

  Firsts, Fallen Angels, Jace

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• There's nothing worse than the sequel that's a letdown from the first movie.

  Paul Feig

  Firsts, Sequels

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• A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Albums

  Interview with Aaron Gell, www.elle.com. March 4, 2010.

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• It's a letdown if the comedian doesn't finally actually really sit on his hat.

  Kingsley Amis

  Comedian, Hats, Ifs

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• I feel a little more tired than usual, ... Ive had to recover from everything, my illnesses and things this summer. Its not perfect circumstances, but Im definitely going to be out there and hopefully have my letdown after the Open ... I think Ill go in mentally a lot better. When it comes down to it I dont think anyone really wants to play me because I have a lot of weapons and not a ton of weaknesses. My main weakness would probably be an occasional self-destruction mode. So Ill try not to touch that red button accidentally.

  Venus Williams

  Summer, Tired, Thinking

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• We can't be satisfied as a team. We have one goal in mind right now and it's the next game. We want to get to the championship. We have to come out in practice and get after each other. There can't be any letdowns, we have to keep going.

  John Desko

  Team, Practice, Games

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• Human beings are like detectives. They love a mystery. They love going where the mystery pulls them. What we don't like is a mystery that's solved completely. It's a letdown. It always seems less than what we imagined when the mystery was present. The last scene in `Blow Up' is so perfect because you leave the theater still dreaming. Or the end of `Chinatown,' where the guy says `Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.' It explains so much but it only gives you a dream of a bigger mystery. Like life. For me, I want to solve certain things but leave some room to dream.

  David

  Dream, Blow, Giving

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• THE CORRECTION, when it finally came, was not an overnight bursting of a bubble but a much more gentle letdown, a year-long leakage of value from key financial markets, a contraction too gradual to generate headlines and too predictable to seriously hurt anybody but fools and the working poor.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Hurt, Years, Keys

  Jonathan Franzen (2001). “The Corrections: A Novel”, p.563, Macmillan

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• The research period of a film is the most exciting part of the process, and filming is sometimes a letdown because when you're dealing with biopic material, the real thing is always much more intricate than the story told in the film.

  Alessandro Nivola

  Real, Stories, Research

  "Alessandro Nivola On the Record". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. April 08, 2010.

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• You start at a young age, going on auditions, and you think you did a good job and expect to get that role, and you don't, and it's a letdown, a disappointment. So you tell yourself to just do the work and disconnect, because you have no control over the outcome.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Jobs, Disappointment, Thinking

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• When I read a novel that I really like, I feel as if I am in direct, personal communication with the author. I feel as if the author and I are on the same wavelength mentally, that we have a lot in common with each other, and that we could have an interesting conversation, or even a friendship, if the circumstances permitted it. When the novel comes to an end, I feel a certain letdown, a loss of contact. It is natural to want to recapture that feeling by reading other works by the same author, or by corresponding with him/her directly.

  Neal Stephenson

  Reading, Communication, Loss

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• When we got off the streetcar at Times Square, it was somewhat of a letdown. Newspapers were blowing about the road and pavement, and Broadway looked seedy, like a slovenly woman just out of bed.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Funny, New York, Humorous

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• I made a vow to God [in 2010], after so many letdowns and the relationship with my ex, I knew I really didn't want to continue making the same mistakes anymore. Women nowadays, we connect physically too soon without actually getting to know the person. If you don't actually give this person your body and then they let you down, there really isn't a great disappointment; not like it would be if you have already connected physically. I started going on that journey, and I thought to myself, you know what, the next man that I give my body to will be the man that God brought into my life.

  Jessica White

  Disappointment, Mistake, Journey

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• It is such a letdown to rise from the dead and have your friends not recognize you.

  Rob Bell

  Rob Bell (2006). “Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith”, p.156, Harper Collins

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• Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.

  John Irving

  Writing, Scary, Seems

  John Irving (1978). “The world according to Garp”, Pocket

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• Entropy is one of the laws of thermodynamics. It's a physical law that says everything in nature is moving from order to disorder. In our lives this same principle is at work. As time moves on, things break down as we make mistakes. This is the 'letdown' every person experiences because of sin. For Christians this concept doesn't end there because we realize God's 'beautiful' mercy and grace restores the order in our lives.

  Jon Foreman

  Beautiful, Christian, Mistake

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• These days it seems like any idiot with a laptop computer can churn out a business book and make a few bucks. That's certainly what I'm hoping. It would be a real letdown if the trend changed before this masterpiece goes to print.

  Scott Adams

  Real, Book, Trends

  Scott Adams (1996). “The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions”

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