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If you slow it down, eat in courses, your body, mind, stomach will catch up with this full feeling and you won't eat as much.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Slash sat me down at his house and said, You've got to clean up your act. You know you've gone too far when Slash is saying, Look, you've got to get into rehab.

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.

Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.

I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

You might be a redneck if... the blue book value of your truck goes up and down depending on how much gas it has in it.

What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down, just literally squeezes down like this because you're feeling the tension of your life and then the heart muscle itself will also begin - to get stressed out.

Obviously I was disappointed when it fell into disuse, because it was my own track named after me, but I am sure all those youngsters we lost will be coming back, and I certainly intend to be down here as much as I can, coaching and advising.

Retro looking stuff but a lot of these guys doing these shows are my age or younger. I was just disgusted. I hated being around that kind of thing. Not that it affected what I did because when it comes down to it I was doing my own show.

But at the same time I went down into the mines with working miners who are still young men, younger than I am, who are aware that their working life is coming to an end and they feel suddenly cut off.

No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around.

The present Arab uprising didn't stem from Israel. The old guard is trying to keep down the young chickens. The old guard is better organized. They may win elections, but unless they have a solution to poverty, to corruption, to oppression, they will not last. I am with the young people.

I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.

There should be a moral principle there that says, let's green the ghetto first. Let's go to those communities where they have the least ability to pay for that retrofit and make sure they get that help, make sure they get that support. And give the young people standing on those corners the opportunity to put down those handguns and pick up some caulking guns and be a part of the solution.

At first blush, it seems that the young people who were shot down in the parking lot at the base of Blanket Hill gave up their lives for a dream that died with them.