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I got into it mainly through falling in love with a young lady of Mexican descent from Texas Monthly. And she introduced me to breakfast tacos, and she downright forced me to eat cow tongue. … I was head over heels for both the food and the girl. – Courtesy José Ralat Ralat	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The nature of the encroachment upon American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer; it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity and frugality become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole of society. – John Adams	added by Normando 1 year ago
There is an oppressive climate of judgment in public life these days. And I worry that whenever people feel censored, it breeds animosity and discontent. Not to mention that it’s downright un-American, we’re pushing people into boxes and into spaces that are sad and dangerous on both sides because we’re not listening to one another. – Meghan McCain	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Arguing that Washingtonians must remain disenfranchised to protect the interests of the federal government is dangerous, outdated and downright insulting. – Muriel Bowser	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It brings me great concern that there have been threats toward my son, Armando Bacot's life, by individuals; one, who don't know him nor our family personally and two, did not know the whole story and truth, we are all dealing in a time that is extremely unfamiliar, making adjustments can be hard and not doing the things we love can make us sad. I understand. At no time is it OK to threaten someone, it's unnecessary and downright evil. Let's not forget to love ourselves so that we can pass on love to others. God loves us all, Prayers to All. – Christie Lomax	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Covid-19 has proven how college athletes are anything but amateur. College sports generates $ 15 billion every year for everyone except the athletes actually playing the game. It's slave labor in a downright dictatorship, i've seen firsthand just how backwards the NCAA's likeness restrictions for college athletes are and how Draymond Green and my teammates struggled to make ends meet. – Draymond Green	Found on CNN 3 years ago
At such a crucial time, giving a platform to conspiracy theorists to spread myths and falsehoods about coronavirus vaccines is downright dangerous and one of the last things Senate Republicans should be doing right now. – Senate Democratic leader	Found on CNN 3 years ago
That's not just disappointing, it's downright infuriating. – Michelle Obama	Found on CNN 3 years ago
These crazy liberal clowns... Theyre not funny, theyre downright scary. – Dan Bishop	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, so much as downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation. – John Adams	added by Normando 4 years ago
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers, and destroyers press upon them so fast, that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon the American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited, and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity, and frugality, become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole society. – John Adams	added by Normando 4 years ago
It's hard not to notice the number of people texting while walking, and downright alarming to see people continuing their texting while crossing the street, we want New Yorkers to know it's OK to wait the 5 seconds. – John Liu	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Considering Mr. Shields’ addiction what does that say about Ms. Frankel’s parenting that she would allow this person to care for her daughter? This doesn’t just constitute a lapse in judgment this was just downright dangerous parenting. – Robert Wallack	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
These actions were inexcusable, wrong and downright embarrassing, since then, my life has been changed by a remarkable woman, two amazing daughters, a forgiving God and a career that has taught me to cherish what I have. – Archie Parnell	Found on CNN 5 years ago
[ Narcissists ] wo n’t look them in the eye, are downright rude or dismissive, raise their voice for even a small slight, and may rapidly demand to see the manager. – Ramani Durvasula	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
George, truth be told, I’ve been TOO patient and TOO loyal and have allowed horrible and abusive treatment that has worked to our severe detriment. You have made us broken promises galore, to the extent that they are not only deplorable, but downright actionable. – Jeff Popick	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
What Donald Trump did was use eminent domain to try to take the property of an elderly woman on the strip in Atlantic City. That is not public purpose. That is downright wrong. – Jeb Bush	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I think it is downright dangerous and above and beyond what is constitutionally acceptable. – Scott Wilson	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We have too many, people on one stage and too few on the other, i don't mind being asked hard questions and challenging questions, I think some of the questions have been downright silly and this thing has gone on too long, the second debate went on too long, the last debate was just a complete food fight. So we're trying to take control of the process. And Reince Priebus is a good friend, my beef is not with him. – South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham	Found on CNN 8 years ago
For me as a voter it is downright irritating that a diplomat should come here and tell us how to live or how our voters should live. – Janos Lazar	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There are real questions to be asked if there is no action taken, particularly for the results taken post-2009, some of the values in these athletes were so extreme that they were downright dangerous and the risks to their health were indisputable. – Robin Parisotto	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The lack of support, cooperation, and downright bias, coupled with an agenda to ruin my career, has become unbearable and I will not subject my family to this any longer, i do this in an effort to continue with my life, to give my family better opportunities, and move past this horrible experience. – Stewart Ferrin	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I beleive that every female should be a downright dirty slut- for her man. ONLY for her man. – Ashton Morris	added by anonymous 9 years ago
When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning -- how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse. – George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron	added by anonymous 9 years ago

I got into it mainly through falling in love with a young lady of Mexican descent from Texas Monthly. And she introduced me to breakfast tacos, and she downright forced me to eat cow tongue. … I was head over heels for both the food and the girl.

– Courtesy José Ralat Ralat

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The nature of the encroachment upon American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer; it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity and frugality become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole of society.

– John Adams

added by Normando
1 year ago

There is an oppressive climate of judgment in public life these days. And I worry that whenever people feel censored, it breeds animosity and discontent. Not to mention that it’s downright un-American, we’re pushing people into boxes and into spaces that are sad and dangerous on both sides because we’re not listening to one another.

– Meghan McCain

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Arguing that Washingtonians must remain disenfranchised to protect the interests of the federal government is dangerous, outdated and downright insulting.

– Muriel Bowser

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It brings me great concern that there have been threats toward my son, Armando Bacot's life, by individuals; one, who don't know him nor our family personally and two, did not know the whole story and truth, we are all dealing in a time that is extremely unfamiliar, making adjustments can be hard and not doing the things we love can make us sad. I understand. At no time is it OK to threaten someone, it's unnecessary and downright evil. Let's not forget to love ourselves so that we can pass on love to others. God loves us all, Prayers to All.

– Christie Lomax

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Covid-19 has proven how college athletes are anything but amateur. College sports generates $ 15 billion every year for everyone except the athletes actually playing the game. It's slave labor in a downright dictatorship, i've seen firsthand just how backwards the NCAA's likeness restrictions for college athletes are and how Draymond Green and my teammates struggled to make ends meet.

– Draymond Green

Found on CNN
3 years ago

At such a crucial time, giving a platform to conspiracy theorists to spread myths and falsehoods about coronavirus vaccines is downright dangerous and one of the last things Senate Republicans should be doing right now.

– Senate Democratic leader

Found on CNN
3 years ago

That's not just disappointing, it's downright infuriating.

– Michelle Obama

Found on CNN
3 years ago

These crazy liberal clowns... Theyre not funny, theyre downright scary.

– Dan Bishop

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, so much as downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.

– John Adams

added by Normando
4 years ago

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers, and destroyers press upon them so fast, that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon the American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited, and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity, and frugality, become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole society.

– John Adams

added by Normando
4 years ago

It's hard not to notice the number of people texting while walking, and downright alarming to see people continuing their texting while crossing the street, we want New Yorkers to know it's OK to wait the 5 seconds.

– John Liu

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Considering Mr. Shields’ addiction what does that say about Ms. Frankel’s parenting that she would allow this person to care for her daughter? This doesn’t just constitute a lapse in judgment this was just downright dangerous parenting.

– Robert Wallack

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

These actions were inexcusable, wrong and downright embarrassing, since then, my life has been changed by a remarkable woman, two amazing daughters, a forgiving God and a career that has taught me to cherish what I have.

– Archie Parnell

Found on CNN
5 years ago

[ Narcissists ] wo n’t look them in the eye, are downright rude or dismissive, raise their voice for even a small slight, and may rapidly demand to see the manager.

– Ramani Durvasula

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

George, truth be told, I’ve been TOO patient and TOO loyal and have allowed horrible and abusive treatment that has worked to our severe detriment. You have made us broken promises galore, to the extent that they are not only deplorable, but downright actionable.

– Jeff Popick

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

What Donald Trump did was use eminent domain to try to take the property of an elderly woman on the strip in Atlantic City. That is not public purpose. That is downright wrong.

– Jeb Bush

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I think it is downright dangerous and above and beyond what is constitutionally acceptable.

– Scott Wilson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We have too many, people on one stage and too few on the other, i don't mind being asked hard questions and challenging questions, I think some of the questions have been downright silly and this thing has gone on too long, the second debate went on too long, the last debate was just a complete food fight. So we're trying to take control of the process. And Reince Priebus is a good friend, my beef is not with him.

– South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham

Found on CNN
8 years ago

For me as a voter it is downright irritating that a diplomat should come here and tell us how to live or how our voters should live.

– Janos Lazar

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There are real questions to be asked if there is no action taken, particularly for the results taken post-2009, some of the values in these athletes were so extreme that they were downright dangerous and the risks to their health were indisputable.

– Robin Parisotto

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The lack of support, cooperation, and downright bias, coupled with an agenda to ruin my career, has become unbearable and I will not subject my family to this any longer, i do this in an effort to continue with my life, to give my family better opportunities, and move past this horrible experience.

– Stewart Ferrin

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I beleive that every female should be a downright dirty slut- for her man. ONLY for her man.

– Ashton Morris

added by anonymous
9 years ago

When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning -- how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.

– George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron

added by anonymous
9 years ago

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