This is so disappointing. We needed an upside down number 13.


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We made our foul shots - 9-for-13 - down the stretch when we needed to.
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He's wrong he's so he's so wrong he's more wrong than an upside-down rainbow.
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This is an experiment. Financially this isn't costing us more. We believe there's only an upside.
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Huff, don?t panic, don?t panic. Come on, Huff, come on, stay strong.
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It was a very disappointing loss. We didn't do what we needed to do down the stretch for us to win t...
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It is certainly down on where we expected it to be, so I would say it is pretty disappointing.
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AMY VOELKEL
We knew we needed a major snowstorm in the forecast. It's disappointing.
JIM LYMAN
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Life is beautiful upside-down.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER
My favorite number is 13. You think I'm superstitious?
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Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth;
whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in...
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The number of the dead is confirmed to be 13.
ALFRED MUTUA
I wear a necklace, cause I wanna know when I'm upside down.
MITCH HEDBERG
No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
H. R. GIGER
When you're playing upside down, it takes twice the strength.
TOMMY LEE
My favorite Aspen memory is saving an upside-down cake that had exploded from the high altitude.
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We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down.
ANGELINA GRIMKE
We had to turn every school's network upside down,
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This number is probably just a fraction of what is needed in that marketplace.
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A young minister was helping his wife with the dishes meanwhile complaining: "This is not a man's jo...
UNKNOWN
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This is so disappointing. This was a very big game for us tonight.
DON MACADAM
This is the kind of performance we expect out of Jonathan on a regular basis.
GENE PINGATORE
It's not like I ride a broom into interviews. I don't hang upside down with a cape on.
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Life is an audition.
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Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.
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You look at 1968 and it was truly the year that shook the world. The world was really completely ups...
EMILIO ESTEVEZ
We needed this one. We've got a tough schedule down the stretch.
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That was a really disappointing day, shocking day, to give up that sort of lead when we really neede...
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I can't even
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We're a part of the insurrection, trying to turn Christianity upside down. We're an experime...
ERWIN MCMANUS
This is extremely disappointing, because many people have worked very hard to help us find solutions...
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You should learn to hang your expectations upside down. This will keep you from getting hurt!
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It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most in...
VINCE FLYNN
This is the kind of game we needed to win in a stadium like this to accomplish stuff down the road.
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All of us had our worlds completely turned upside down. That's a really powerful thing to happen ove...
BEN JAFFE
It's disappointing. We could have gotten it done. We just broke down I guess.
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They said we needed to identify him so we did. We said this is Christopher Robinson.
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It's not an easy loss to take. We haven't lost since Jan. 13, so we are not used to losing.
AMY HUNSAKER
I like to turn things upside down, to watch pictures and situations from another perspective.
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When I reached 80, my world turned upside down physically. I've had a lot of physical problems.
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I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one...
ANNA DEAVERE SMITH
I'm always trying to turn things upside down and see if they look any better.
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has had her life turned upside down.
DON CLARK
Our lives have been turned upside-down.
HOWARD KAVALER
The total number of people affected was 13 United Nations staff,
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It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms nearly always shoo...
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It has been a tough go for us recently, so we really needed this. This is the best team we've faced ...
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It's an up and down game. I think we scored something like 99 on them when we played up there (a 99-...
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Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?
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After 13 years, I couldn't accept to be number two.
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I'm not frowning, I'm just smiling upside down.
ANONYMOUS
He changed everything. He turned everything upside down.
BERIT REKAA
Recent figures have been erratic and this quarter's are disappointing. However, taking the year as a...
MARGARET HODGE
We wanted to stop Edwards and we did. Right now, this is just disappointing.
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Waterloo has had our number. We needed to make a stop and we did.
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But even on the technology side, it is an extremely oversold area. So the bias should be to the upsi...
GERALD VINCENT
I am not superstitious: the number 13 is lucky for me. It just goes between 12 and 14.
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This is an opportunity to start over, an opportunity to settle down. So much has been moving so fast...
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We need to make sure that we fix it this time, because what if that had been an act of terrorism? .....
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The rationale that people have used for being bullish is extremely predictable, ... They can't say s...
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Charlie gave me his number and said he was there if I needed anything.
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There [are] tons of debris down there, the likes of which have never been seen. To maintain safety, ...
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There (are) tons of debris down there, the likes of which have never been seen. To maintain safety, ...
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The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has st...
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It's a very good performance today, especially considering the first quarter was up 13%, although th...
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JONATHAN GASH
Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT
But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into...
JONATHAN SWIFT
She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same positi...
JONATHAN SWIFT
And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, ...
JONATHAN SWIFT
I warrant you lay abed till the cows came home.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
JONATHAN LARSON
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
JONATHAN SWIFT
There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never ...
JONATHAN RABAN
What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say -- but there's so much more of it. I ...
JONATHAN KATZ
Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a ...
JONATHAN SWIFT
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
JONATHAN SWIFT
As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a...
JONATHAN SWIFT
How we apples swim.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnis...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Convey a libel in a frown. And wink a reputation down!
JONATHAN SWIFT
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
JONATHAN SWIFT
The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
JONATHAN SWIFT
They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
JONATHAN SWIFT
What some invent the rest enlarge.
JONATHAN SWIFT
I heard the little bird say so.
JONATHAN SWIFT
A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound, As emblems of the sovereign p...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.
JONATHAN SWIFT
So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller sti...
JONATHAN SWIFT
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
JONATHAN SWIFT
In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent ...
JONATHAN SWIFT
A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him.
JONATHAN SWIFT
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be p...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts wit...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true -- but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is...
JONATHAN SCHATTKE
Necessity is the mother of invention.
JONATHAN SWIFT
It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to the ...
JONATHAN SWIFT