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Now that I'm on top, everyone wants to bring me down. Everyone's trying to tug at me and take my spot.
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
I realize I stare at everyone, especially when I'm walking down the street. I'm just a curious person.
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
We're always in the middle of two energies. Gravity is sinking you down; inspiration is pulling you up.
I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
At some stage in most people's lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be.
I truly believe deep down that I cannot be beaten. Everything in life can either build you or break you.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
The personality cult of the ego does not work down a coal mine and it does not work in the Labour party.
I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising.
No trooper, no special forces operative wants to sit behind a desk. We joined up to kick some doors down.
Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
I'm still so down to earth and regular. I still be in the projects, I still be in the hood - just regular.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.
Student life taught me a lesson - never bow down your head. Be straightforward and bold in whatever you do.
It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'.
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
I have this image of myself as kinda like the Energizer Bunny. I get knocked down, and I pop right back up.
I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
Young people think Rosa Parks just sat down on a bus and ended segregation, but that wasn't the case at all.
We all know that Nigerian jollof rice is the best anywhere. We beat the Ghanaians and Senegalese hands down.
A story in your head isn't a story. It's just a daydream until you actually write it down. So write it down.
I have a two-story house and a bad memory, so I'm up and down those stairs all the time. That's my exercise.
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It's all funny. Next. Everyone gets so upset about the wrong things.
The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down.
Deforestation will continue as long as cutting down and burning trees is more economic than preserving them.
If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of.
Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else.
I make sure I always surround myself with good, down to earth, fun, real people, who always keep me grounded.
Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.
They have in me struck down but the trunk of the tree; the roots are many and deep - they will shoot up again!
It's obviously funny to be a meme, so I could be down with it in that regard, but it also belittles one's art.
I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.
If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.
I don't support violence and I don't support negative energy. I don't support people putting other people down.
I spend a lot of time upside down. It increases the blood flow to the brain, so it really helps your creativity.
If feminism wasn't powerful, if feminism wasn't influential, people wouldn't spend so much time putting it down.
I think people should have fun. And don't get so down on yourself. Enjoy life and be the best person you can be.
It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.
Whenever I'm feeling down, I remind myself that my flaws make me perfect, because in reality there is no perfect.
Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn't do auditions.