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These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.

When I read the script sometimes, it's like 'Christ! Enough!' I can't sleep at night sometimes. There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off.

I killed many a quarterback. I felt like I scored when I took their head off.

There was an enormous amount of pressure when my first album took off, and I struggled with the speed of everything and the exhaustion from the constant touring.

They sent me to these places to get the weight off. The diets never worked; the diets actually made it worse.

I'm really shy with my acting when it's off, because the camera gives me an excuse to be in character, whereas otherwise I would just feel like an idiot.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?

Nudity is who people are at the most interesting point of the evening, when they take off their protective layer, when no one is watching.

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

More people on unemployment benefits is not success in America, fewer people on not because we kicked them off but because they have been able to get a job in the private sector, because government got out of the way.

I think it was sexier when you didn't have to take it all off.

I desire to put off my trial as long as I can till I can get my evidence ready.

Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times.

The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe.

I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

If I was starting off now, I would probably have taken one or two different turnings along the way.

What pisses me off is when I've got seven or eight record company fat pig men sitting there telling me what to wear.

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more.

Al Qaeda is on the run, partly because the United States is in Afghanistan, pushing on al Qaeda, and working internationally to cut off the flow of funds to al Qaeda. They are having a difficult time. They failed in this endeavor.

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.

I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.

To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.

I have been here before as a spirit - this is just my physical body, it is just an overcoat. And at death, you will take the overcoat off.

When we're touring America or Europe, we use our own plane and a great advantage of that is it cuts out an awful lot of time checking in. You literally drive up to the plane, get on and then drive off at the other end.

I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.