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Palin was a political Hail Mary, a long bomb in the closing minutes of a game that John McCain and Co. were certain to lose. They didn't care if she had the policy or political or emotional capacity to serve as vice president, let alone president. They were willing to drive the country off a cliff, if that's what it took to win.

They started to try and keep us off the air in the beginning.

I wasn't just pro-choice, I was pro-everything, until I started taking everything off the table and began looking at things and asking if this view was consistent with that view.

I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.

The studies indicate that focusing our attention on someone else, takes our mind off of our own problems. We stay healthier and thereby live longer.

Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

I moved further and further away from mass entertainment. The sexual element became increasingly sinister and bizarre. Don't blame me! The bastards drove me to it! They all backed off after that!

When you're in the position I'm in, you have two options: you can either shut yourself off from everybody, from the world, and not live a full life. Or you welcome everybody into your life and occasionally somebody will try to take advantage.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.

A fan once asked if he could have a piece of my hair for voodoo. I said no, so he hugged me and plucked out a couple of hairs and ran off.

Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.

Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff.

So I'll go eat places and then I'll run it off in the show.

If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you.

I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them.

So they didn't let anybody else off. I can't live like this, I'm finished. Auschwitz was easy.

My brother says that I was writing songs about fate while he was off playing soccer. Now I tell him he's 33 and being a professional while I'm playing soccer with my friends. Ha!

I was stuck with looking like a girl. As soon as I got out of music it was straight off to the hairdressers.

You can create the perfect triceps by just pushing yourself off your wall.

Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off.

Detainee policy in this war is hard, it's complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business.

My life off the court has changed. I'm feeling good inside, so I guess it shows on the outside too.

If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

Because you know how you say I've got to really get down and really do some training and then of course, you never do or you do it for a couple of weeks and slough it back off again but I'm being forced to do something that I really want to do and I loved it.

If you're going to live in the house make it your goal to just pay off your mortgage.

His act may start out slow, but it tapers off.

The record company really pissed me off when they told me to lose weight. I couldn't be bothered with looking a certain way. So I left the business. I don't regret it.

That's something I do, like, all the time. I just do backflips off things.