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The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.

Fear is that thing that keeps you up there on that other plateau. Fear is that thing that just keeps you closed down, and quite frankly, alone.

It would probably take me an hour to two to write it down, get the feel of it, and that's with quite a few changes. It's not really a hard thing for me to do.

I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines.

But we want peace, I would move all my people down this way. I could then keep them all quietly near camp.

I have had many occasions this year where I questioned and second-guessed my decision in a game, but it comes down to learning from mistakes and being accountable for what you did right or did wrong.

I think also there's no question that Lincoln has been diluted down through history in some way, almost by becoming as iconic as he is, in a way he's become diluted.

He said there is 80 of us, ready to come down and the next thing I knew is that Jo Brown dashed in and said your family has already moved and you have to move, the boat is ready to take you out. I didn't have time to ask, even ask a question.

I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or a casting director to find something that they think I could do.

I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.

Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.

He started pushing to make birdies and you don't do that when you're down.

No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

I mean, I'll say the filthiest things in the world, but when it comes down to it, I'm kind of a prude.

If you take 67 brush fires times 10 years, that's almost 700 right there. Those brush fires are incredibly dangerous, all those homes going down proved that.

Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.

If they knocked two of your guys down, I'd get four. You have to protect your hitters.

I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.

I love working with new directors. There's so much drive and effort. It still comes down to the character for me, but if it's a character I really want to play, I would never not do the project because of a new director.

I think music will be created algorhythmically, all the things that we do will be boiled down to a little computer program.

An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone.

One of the problems that we have as American journalists is that we bring the American cultural baggage with us and we plop it down and it follows us around and that's just a fact of life.

I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.

It all comes down to probable cause: If you think something's up, maybe you gotta take a look.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.

Americans now know that housing prices can go down and they can go down by 10, 20, 30, and in some cases, 40 or 50 percent. We know they can go down. But five years ago, we thought they could only go up.