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First off, the crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.

Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

I just see too many people retire and say, 'I'm going to take off, travel, spend time with my family' and they are just miserable. They end up dying. People who work and stay active, and like what they are doing, live longer.

That's one of the great privileges, being an actor, is that someone pays you and sends you off to learn about something that otherwise you'd never know about.

I'm trained to button scenes and round things off, and I get rewarded for doing that.

Jewelry takes people's minds off your wrinkles.

The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.

Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.

What we should be trying to do is to encourage people to establish private retirement accounts and help them take pressure off the Social Security system.

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.

That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.

You don't write a book to show off.

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

Talented people are written off once they hit their 50s and 60s, and the saddest thing is, we just get better as we get older.

I just went off for two months traveling around Europe on a motorcycle and pretty much turned my phone off. I did 5,000 miles with my dad. We went through Holland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Italy... and then I did Spain and France by myself.

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

I need to recharge creatively, and get off the clock of having to be somewhere just because, and having to keep juggling all these things.

To finish off this whole Olympics by finally getting the gold medal, it's the best feeling in the world.

Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.

I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.

You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage.

I want my weekends off and I want to put my kids to bed. Those are good reasons to want to be in 'Batman 2'.

The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.

I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.

For an athlete, there's no time off... until it's over.

One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a say in the change. But you are ignorant or naive if you don't think there will be change, whether you want it to or not.

The two hours onstage is great. But I can only play a show and then take a night off. I have to sing for two hours, and then I've gotta rest it for a night. So it's the other 46 hours that are just boring as heck.

The reader feels as if he is in Chongjin, where starving people ate the bark off trees; or atop Mount Taesong with the elite of Pyongyang, whose existence is a mix of sadism and whimsy; or with the masses who are bombarded day and night with the propaganda of North Korea's alternate reality.

It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.