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Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances.

The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.

I don't enjoy the boo scare when you're watching a movie and then suddenly there's a big shark on the screen. The only thing they're doing is catching you off guard.

I just feed off the energy of the audience.

I would like to do a part that would stretch me. In America it seems to me that you just take your clothes off and that helps, but I wouldn't want to do that.

If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.

Your goal should be to pay off your credit card bills in full at the end of each month and set aside money toward your emergency savings.

When I get a chance to power jump off both legs, I can lean, twist, change directions and decide whether to dunk the ball or pass it to an open man. In other words, I may be committed to the air, but I still have some control over it.

But today the quickest way to save your bottom line is to cut off research.

If you get asked a really tough question and you give a really good answer, you come off looking really good.

Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.

The gun went off accidentally.

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

Suffering makes a people greater, and we have suffered much. We had a message to give the world, but we were overwhelmed, and the message was cut off in the middle. In time there will be millions of us - becoming stronger and stronger - and we will complete the message.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it's always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It's a wonderful journey to take.

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.

I am the same on camera as I am off. I can't imagine being any other way.

I don't feel anything when I watch Shaquille O'Neal play. I don't feel anything coming off him.

There's something about prime time television and the way the song is going to come off on the air. I'm very concerned, very self-conscious about that.

I used to be a mean maniac. Someone once threw a firecracker at a show and I jumped off the side of the stage and whacked 'em on the side of the head.

In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.

What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.

At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.

And when native man left off this form of development, his humanization was retarded in growth.