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Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.

If you are a musician and you don't show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people will rip you off. They will sweet talk you into anything.

When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that I'm going to stick to policy issues, that I have no intention of going out and blowing the cover off of the intelligence operations, that those are truly sensitive and they should not be exposed.

I'm terrible as I never take my make-up off at night, which I know is really dreadful. Whenever I'm out partying I just can't be bothered and now I am on 'Loose Women' that tends to be all the time. I hope next year holds even more parties for me.

Running with others can help get you out when you might otherwise blow it off.

We've been swimming at nude beaches and I love to go skinny dipping, but I'm sorry, sitting on top of a mountain, that's just, you're trying to show off or something. That's ridiculous.

We have broken the cycle of dependency. People have found out they're better off working.

I've learnt and I just want to be respected for what I've achieved on the pitch. I know I haven't achieved much off it but I do know I've given pleasure to people watching me play football over the years.

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.

Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me.

I am not an actress. I can only play me - on and off the screen.

The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.

There's always going to be somebody worse off than me.

I go off into Dublin and two days later I'm spotted walking by the Liffey with a whole bunch of new friends.

I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off.

Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.

Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when that work's going to pay off.

The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world.

There is something basic about protecting land by taking it off the market. People should be able to enjoy where they live while at the same time protect the plants and animals around them.

I went to a public high school that had a very small graduating class of 156 students. I lived a relatively normal childhood until I turned probably around 16. Things started to take off career-wise.

If your house has been on the market for more than four months, take it off the market and re-list it in two months as 'new.'

The white men told lies for each other. They drove off a great many of our cattle. Some branded our young cattle so they could claim them.

And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument.

I do tend to take time off. A year and a half ago I went to film school, and before that I had taken years off at a time to be involved politically or this or that.

For me, making films is like being on vacation, it's a nice walk. But theatre is like mountaineering. You never know whether you're going to fall off or make it to the top.

We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people in developed countries are still, by historical standards, extraordinarily well off.