Downers Quotes

• You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you're supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

  Bob Marley

  Mean, Use, Type

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• When I was ten, my family moved to Downer's Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Humor, Illinois

  "E=MO2". Album by Emo Philips, 1985.

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• We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Vegas, Two, Drug

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.531, Simon and Schuster

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• I got tired and embarrassed by the constant poverty of those years. I told Doug [ Brinkley] this is really going to be a horrible downer of a book [The Proud Highway] if all it's going to be is about being broke. I didn't like being reminded of desperation at all times.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Book, Tired, Years

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

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• I loved downers, almost any kind. Loved the colors of them. Loved them yellow... I did. I would just have a bouquet in my hands at night.

  Rosemary Clooney

  Night, Hands, Color

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• I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck.

  Corey Haim

  Wrecks, Nervous, Hell

  "Corey Haim: a career in clips" by Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2010.

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• I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil defense workers, the firefighters, the police officers, and the way that FEMA is making them spend that money. We have got a problem there.

  Lynn Westmoreland

  Money, Firefighter, Police

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• There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.

  Tommy Rettig

  Weekend, Differences, Doe

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• Some people you just had to embrace, in some way or another, had to bite into the muscle, to remain sane in their company. You needed to grab their hair and clutch it like a drowner so they would pull you into their midst. Otherwise they, walking casually down the street towards you, almost about to wave, would leap over a wall and be gone for months.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Wall, Hands, People

  "The English Patient". Book by Michael Ondaatje, 1992.

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• I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.

  Halle Berry

  Real, Privacy, Accepting

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• There'll be moments when I'm out in the prison yard, chatting with the cast and the crew, getting ready to shoot a scene. And then I'll remember if I were actually an inmate, I'd only be out there an hour. The other 23 hours of the day, I'd be in my cell. It's kind of a downer.

  Wentworth Miller

  Cells, Yards, Inmates

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• One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

  Ben Kingsley

  Loyalty, Drama, Home

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• Half the time I feel like I'm appealing to the downer freaks out there. We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down myself. Give me something from 1960 or something; let me get up again. The music of today is for downer freaks, and I'm an upper.

  Wolfman Jack

  Play, Giving, Today

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• Some people asked me if it was going to be a downer to come back and play on a college team after playing on a world championship team, and I don't think they understand what it is like to play here.

  Lorrie Fair

  Team, College, Thinking

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• I'm a downer. I've been depressed my whole life. Figure it out.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Figures, Whole Life, Whole

  "Rodney Dangerfield: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Many male habitues of massage parlors, like Talese, did not like solitary masturbation; in the parlance of the younger generation, it was a "downer." And yet to be masturbated by an appealing masseuse, to be in the physical presence of a woman with whom there was some communication and understanding, if not love, was gratifying and fun.

  Gay Talese

  Love, Fun, Communication

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• I would like to trust and believe that the American spirit of resistance will win the day, but I keep having to be this downer Cassandra person in saying that without dismantling this horrific legislative apparatus that has basically given George W. Bush dictatorial power, the spirit of America is not enough. We have to have that spirit, but we have to have tactics and strategies and a movement and a victory.

  Naomi Wolf

  Believe, Winning, America

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Bookish people drolly claim to be addicted. I think, in some cases, this is literally true. . . . I suppose this makes me a small-time pusher, holding a couple of capsules of a novel compound, looking for vulnerable readers for whom it might turn out to be habit-forming. There's enough of them. When I walk into a bookshop--one of the big ones, a vast dispensary stacked with complex uppers and downers--I can't help thinking, my God, what army of junkies is all this feeding?

  Henrietta Rose-Innes

  Couple, Army, Thinking

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• I find titles the hardest thing. I was worried that 'Waste Land' was too much of a downer. For me, 'The Crash Reel' confronts what the film is about: it's not just about the reality of a crash, it's about the extremity we all face, and what happens when life crashes on you.

  Lucy Walker

  Reality, Land, Titles

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• The first time we put Debbie Downer on the show, I had a giggle fit that I couldn't control, and the whole cast ended up breaking so hard we could never quite recover.

  Rachel Dratch

  Never Quit, Firsts, Fit

  Rachel Dratch (2012). “Girl Walks into a Bar . . .: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle”, p.53, Penguin

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• I'm not a flag waver for obesity. It's not healthy, and you have a crap life because there is such a downer on it.

  Jo Brand

  Healthy, Flags, Obesity

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• I really hate to be Debbie Downer right now, because everyone would love to say, "Yeah, we're finally doing something on climate!

  Josh Fox

  Hate, Climate, Yeah

  "Gasland Part II": The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

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• The best date movies give you something to talk about. A movie that's a downer is a great way to find out about someone.

  Henry Adams

  Giving, Way, Date Movie

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• Put tattoos all up and down our thighs, do anything our parents would despise. Take uppers, downers, blues, and reds and yellows, our brains are turning into jello.

  Joan Baez

  Tattoo, Reality, Parent

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• You start doing the addictive behavior to feel good and then your receptors get overloaded with dopamine, then you stop doing the addictive thing and some of the receptors have shut down and you don't have enough dopamine to feel good. So then you feel bad and go back to the addictive behavior to get more dopamine. The strange thing is that it works with what we think of as uppers and downers and whatever you call gambling - sidewaysers.

  Bill Nye

  Thinking, Gambling, Feel Good

  "Bill Nye: Cell phones aren't making us dumb". Interview with Wilson Rothman, www.nbcnews.com. March 23, 2010.

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