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Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack.

I've got a book coming out soon so I just must get some weight off.

Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start.

Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.

LIfe has got all those twists and turns. You've got to hold on tight and off you go.

Young Jimmy Dean fell off the world as suddenly as he had come.

Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a little whiter than theirs. I think also that it may have something written on the back of it, although I can't find it when I take the suit off.

I really didn't feed off the whole Olympic experience at all, and I regret that from an athletic perspective, and also from a personal experience. I feel like I missed out, so I'm not going to do that this time.

During the rehearsal process I got thrown off the horse.

If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice.

I have been off the motorcycles for about 20 years now, but that doesn't mean I can't still do it.

If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor.

Every time I write something down I check it to see if it has that telltale glow, the glow that tells me there's something there. If it glows, it stays. Everything is either on or off.

So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be like novels, you can pick them up off the shelf and go into them any time.

I'm horrible to live with. I don't clean. My clothes end up wherever I take them off. I forget to flush the toilet.

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

From our point of view, the most exciting thing would be if we discovered something really fundamental in our understanding was just off a bit - and that now we have a chance to revisit it.

It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it.

I've never fancied that footballer lifestyle. I suppose I could live that kind of flash life. People stereotype child actors and kind of expect you to go off the rails a bit, be a bit crazy, but that's not really happened yet. I've got a big family so that helps, and they live really close to the studios so it's just so much easier.

The filmmakers who I'm pining to work for aren't ringing my phone off the hook.

Because I'm such a tomboy, I hate showing off my body.

I guess people wonder if I'm the same on camera as I am off, and I'm pretty much the same, I really am. But that's always asked of me.

I've been slagged off completely by the art world.

I don't need many things. I don't need glamour and attention to be happy. I'm very happy being settled and working my butt off and trying to win grand slams.

My proposal to re-establish diplomatic relations - not necessarily friendly relations, but diplomatic relations - is a sensible, simple, and straightforward approach that will finally get us off dead center.

Just all that hard work, all those hours in the pool, I feel like it's about to pay off. I guess we'll just have to wait and see this summer.

Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

I'm not going to take my shirt off in every movie.

I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.