I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.

I would never say anything's over forever. How could you possibly know how you feel? How could you shut the door on anything?

We shouldn't let anti-science zealotry shut down the ability to produce low-cost, quality food for billions across the globe.

The government shut down 12 times under Democratic House Speaker Tip O'Neill. It was only shut down twice while I was speaker.

Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up.

I don't listen to anybody. You need my help: Come to me, shut up, forget who you are. I will take care of you. And I do my job.

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

Follow your heart, and don't be subservient to anyone. Shut out the world, and only listen to your heart to fulfill your dreams.

I did not come to Mumbai to act. I came here to look for a job as our business had shut down, and it was a difficult time for us.

I haven't shut any doors, and I'm really open to anything, so I think it's just about the material and what is going to get made.

For every day the government is shut down, it should be that we don't have to pay income tax that day because they're not working.

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

Strong alliances can thrive even where disagreements exist, but they cannot thrive where free and open communication is shut down.

I put the movie days totally behind me... It was a part of my past that I really kind of put in a little drawer and shut the door.

I'm fighting back against years and years and years of the cultural and the political left telling people to sit down and shut up.

I just think you can't shut your life off to just, you know, one thing. You gotta be open-minded. Explore things. Feed your artist.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

I've filmed a lot of my videos in Compton, but filming a movie, we really can't do it because the police will come and shut you down.

I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.

This Bitcoin currency is a voluntary decentralized currency, anonymous. It can't be shut down by anyone; there are no central servers.

If you don't like your wrinkles and you think Botox or surgery is going to fix it, do it and shut up. But don't keep talking about it.

My scripts are possibly too talkative. Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, 'Oh, for God's sake, shut up.'

When people say - 'Well, do you miss being a judge since you're in Congress,' I go - 'Only when I want people to sit down and shut up.'

Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down.

How can you respect a culture if the woman has to walk several steps behind her man, has to stay in the kitchen and keep her mouth shut?

Whining writers are a hideous sight; we should really shut up, because we are lucky if we can cobble together a living from all of this.

The sad thing is that apparently if you want to become the next Premier or the leader, suddenly you've got to shut down your human side.

Preserving that privacy between a writer and the work is important. You have to shut out all those voices that have reacted to your work.

Thatcherite economic policy was most acutely felt in the coal industry, where tens of thousands of jobs were lost as pits were shut down.

If you don't have the smoking gun, then it's pointless to hector interviewees. Because you just shut people up instead of opening them up.

As America prepared for war in 1941, discrimination largely shut black Americans out of job opportunities in the growing defense industry.

I'd been in so many villages. I'd be like, 'Up against the wall, and shut the hell up!' So I'm like, why would these people be kind to me?

I'm the only girl songwriter that fights for a lot of things. I fight for songwriting fees, which record labels want you to shut up about.

I truly believe that people like myself, who are in a position of entertainers in the limelight, should keep their mouth shut on politics.

I'm a model as a job. I'm Gisele, the daughter of Valdir and Vania. I'm a woman; I am a model. When I go home and shut the door, that's it.

I've been shut down, run down, talked about, dogged out, but that never stopped me from the being the true me that's here and will be here.

I'd like to shut off all the noise and allow people to be creative without all the judgments and standards that we think we have to follow.

With the war and everything that's going on, unless you're Susan Sarandon, the best route is to keep your mouth shut. For me it is, anyway!

There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up.

Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.

My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.

Acting is a work in progress for me. I just try to keep my mouth shut and my eyes and ears open, especially with the people I've worked with.

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!

Sometimes I find myself in this super-raw place onstage where I'm like, 'Maybe that's not the best thing. Maybe I need to shut down a little.'

I've never been mugged, never really experienced street fear. In fact, I'm the one who gets into arguments because I don't keep my mouth shut.

Oprah Winfrey gives you the stage? Shut your mouth. I said, 'I'm sorry for taking over your show.' She said, 'No, that's why we have you here.'

I am not a philosopher, only frustrated by the development of the world we live in - and too stupid to keep my mouth shut when I see injustice.

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.

When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.

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