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Sometimes I've gotten photographs back and people have literally shaven off pieces of me, and I tell them to put it back.

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

I practice transcendental meditation and there is a phase where you're meant to lift off the ground.

We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.

One of the really important things about the Olympics is, to enjoy yourself, you have to accept that it's different and feed off the enthusiasm of everyone and the inspiration and hopefully that will elevate your performance.

When I started off many years ago, I made a determination that there were certain roles I didn't want to play.

I took six months off, finished high school, and hung out with friends.

I usually work out 4 hours a day during the week and 5 to 6 hours on Saturday, with Sundays off.

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business.

When you're kept by a patron you don't have to duke it out in the media marketplace for dollars and for readers. In some ways that's a blessing because it takes a lot of pressure off you.

I always supported the women I worked with having time off to go to parent-teacher conferences and doctors' appointments or bringing their infants into the office.

And, you know, being able to wear the stars and stripes, when you step up on one of the blocks or, you know, when you step off of an airplane or when you hear the national anthem play, you know, it's one of the greatest feelings in the world because you know that there are people at home who are supporting you and watching you.

I am young. I better show off what I have now.

When you're supported by millions all over the world, you can either go nuts, or try to feed off the goodwill.

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

When Hank Jones had his night off, I would get somebody to take my place as intermission pianist and I'd play the show with Ella, so I would get a chance to play with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as well.

Vodka does not ease back pain. But it does get your mind off it.

I'm actually a very quiet person off the golf course. I talk 150 miles per hour when I'm at the course, but when in private I very seldom ever open my mouth.

I don't walk off and come back for encores. I figure I can add four weeks to my life that way.

When times are bad, the gloves come off and employers are less nice. People become disposable.

I'm not one of those actors who needs the media spotlight all the time to feel gratified. I'm happy to do one project a year and take the rest of the year off as long as that project is special.

Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine.

This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.

Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That's baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, 'I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.'

Losing people makes you realize you've got to grab life - not put things off.

Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.

I was a window dresser for Burton's once. What really put me off was the area manager coming round and saying, Charles, I think you're a natch at this.

The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are.