Sylvester Stallone

My life has always been chaotic. From the time I got dressed in the back of a deflated, flat-tired, fish-smelling station wagon for Rocky. It's always been do it yourself, kind of like paper-clip it together.

American Actor

Hannah Murray

You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.

English Actress

Carl Sagan

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

American Scientist

John Mellencamp

Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.

American Musician

P. J. Tucker

Me getting cut from Toronto that first year, definitely helped with the ego. It was deflating. Some people either quit or some people get hungry.

American Basketball Player

Randy Rainbow

I like the idea of sort of being able to stick a pin in something and deflate it with humor and just get a laugh, otherwise we'll cry.

American Comedian

Robert Kiyosaki

Deflation isn't good, and inflation is easier to cure than deflation.

American Author

Le'Veon Bell

I think if you deflate a football, then you're definitely cheating.

American Athlete

Stanley Druckenmiller

The way you create deflation is you create an asset bubble.

American Businessman

Lisa Stansfield

My bed is my weird little haven. It's like a deflated tent.

English Musician

Use 'deflate' when referring to releasing air or gas by physical action or accident.

Physical Action

'Deflate' can happen without someone wanting it to, like a tire getting a puncture.

Not Always Intentional

Use 'deflate' to describe someone feeling less confident or important after an event.

Emotional Impact

The effect of 'deflating' someone may happen suddenly and unexpectedly due to criticism or failure.

Unexpected Effect

Use 'deflate' in contexts like economics to describe the reduction of something like prices or bubbles.

Economic Situations

When using 'deflate' in economic contexts, it is neutral and doesn't imply if the action is good or bad.

Avoid Value Judgments

 where we're going to design the next generation. So it has a little spine. I can move around, I can extend. I can also inflate or deflate it with the mouse wheel, so you sculpt it like clay. We have parts here that I can put on or pull off. The idea is that the player can basically design anything they can think of in this editor, and we'll basically bring it to life.

Will Wright: Spore,...

 blowing around the southern part of the world it's giving you a test for what's going on in these latitudes and you can see the air and the climate changing through these glaciers this one that's the one that was taken over there all the deflation that may have occurred could just throw off what we're actually looking at but I think overall we're a

See the Extreme Ice...

 These stars are internally unstable, like a constantly inflating and deflating balloon. And because the expansion and contraction causes their brightness to vary, we can calculate their luminosity by measuring the period of this cycle, with more luminous stars changing more slowly. By comparing the light we observe from these stars

Light seconds, light...

 While this would stimulate business, it would also encourage overconsumption, or hoarding commodities, like food and fuel, raising their prices and leading to consumer shortages and even more inflation. But deflation would make people want to hold onto their money, and a decrease in consumer spending

What gives a dollar bill...

 really high energy session and generated hundreds of ideas the energy in the room was amazing one of the one of the nurses in my group changed from the start of the session being quite dismissive and a bit deflated she really didn't want to

Employees must wash...

 okay the truth is the puffer gulps water until it resembles a beach ball and in the process transforms from a tasty morsel into a major pain no matter what the otter tries the puffer refuses to deflate himself naturally the otter

Self Inflating Fish PIPE...

 A tremendous amount of ice has been let out of these valleys as it's retreated and deflated, gone back up valley. These changes in the alpine world are accelerating. It's not static. Particularly in the world of sea ice,

James Balog: Time-lapse...

 puffer refuses to deflate himself naturally the otter appears baffled he set out to get a fish dinner and instead he seems to be playing a ball game the irony here is that the puffer is protecting both of them

Puffer Fish PIPE National...

 deflate and bury themselves in the seabed it's thought this behavior might protect sea pens from predators and this may be the first time that evidence has been

What is a Sea Pen? PIPE...

 The chance of a hot object in the real world getting hotter is so absurdly small, it just never happens. Ice melts, cream mixes in, and tires deflate

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Not Always Intentional

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