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I had my electricity turned off three times because I never had time to pay my bills. It was a joke. I'm making a ton of money, and I'm walking around my apartment with flashlights.

In point of fact all Americans are automatically turned down by China these days because of the escalation of Johnson's war in Vietnam, which several times has intruded into China.

I think playing coy is silly. Speak your mind. If a man gets turned off, he's the wrong man.

I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler.

All runners are tough. Everyone has to have a little fire in them, that even in tough times, can’t be turned off.

I know, it's weird that I've never done a musical. I turned down two of them. 'The Lion King' and 'The Producers.' I turned two of the biggest Broadway musicals down, am I a mess?

I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

The thing I love about live performance the most, is that the doors are closed, the lights are turned down, and the audience has to be reverential to what's happening onstage.

Because - oh shut up laughing, you two - because they've just been turned down by girls they asked to the ball!

I turned down a date once because I was looking for someone a little closer to the top of the food chain.

A Polish man in a helicopter. Goes up to 800 feet. Down it comes! What happened? "It got chilly up there, so I turned off the fan!"

I am turned off when I see only formulas and symbols, and little text.

Due to budget cutbacks, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.

The only thing pot does for me is it gets me to stop thinking. Sometimes I have a brain that needs to be turned off. Some people are just better high.

A couple of guys won Academy Awards for the things that I turned down. Today, after coming to terms with everything, after being in therapy for a long time-there are areas where I will compromise.

I turned down a lot of reality shows in the past, but MTV, back in the day, was just the coolest with Cribs to Pimp My Ride.

The great improvement of the radio over the telephone is that it may be turned off without offending the speaker.

A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.

I've turned down Barcelona, Inter Milan, Juventus and Manchester United to play here. I hope everyone already knows how much it means to me to play for Newcastle United.

A sad man, is man with the lights turned off.

And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this-kitchen-candle.

I've been an agnostic for as long as I can remember ... so I don't know where we go. But if it turns out that the lights are just turned off and nothing happens, well, that's okay.

How do you restart something that had never been turned off?

I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.

I have turned down a lot of garbage lately.

I've turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It's an absolute no-go.

He wandered into the Newsroom and asked for a job the same way he’d walk into a barbershop and ask for a haircut, and with no more idea of being turned down.

When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all.

I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.

Personally, I have already turned down the Downing St thermostat by 1 degree

You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.

I've turned down jobs because I've said, 'Honestly, I can't find my way in. I can't do it. I love you, as a director. I think the script is good. You deserve better than I think I can do.'

I've turned down a lot of arena dates because I've done the big-arena thing. Now, I want to do something where people can feel me and I can feel them.

I turned down the lead role in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, because that idiot Oliver Stone didn't think the character should play the alto sax.

I often wonder how different the world would be if Hitler had not been turned down when he applied to art school.

After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.

I turned down Prince William's invitation for me to sing at his birthday bash because he was spearing animals in Africa and bringing publicity to it, and I thought that was pretty disgusting!

And I believe in the 13 years Judge Roberts was there, he never turned down a request to give some assistance on a pro-bono case, and this was no different.

It's odd to think we might have been Sun, moon and stars unto each other; Only I turned down one little street As you went up another.

I had turned down other head chef jobs. I didn't want to take over someone else's cuisine. I wanted to start from scratch.

I lost agents and managers because I turned down big movies that were smutty.

There is a cliche that men want their women to be ladies in public and hookers behind closed doors. I want my woman to be the sharper image robot so that she can be turned off.

I turned down a lot of things that were so-called commercial. You're coming out of one film, and then they want you to be in the same one.

Here's what I had: I had the arrogance of saying I'd like to be in a 'good' movie, so in fact, when I was hot, I turned down a lot of stuff because I didn't think I wanted to watch it.

the crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o'clock.

I turned down five million dollars from a lobbyist who wanted to put up $5m for my campaign, a very strong lobbyist. I said, I don't want your money.

I've never turned down an autograph request. I've never not taken a picture with someone.

The writer's no different. When he's rejected, that paper is rejected, in a sense, a sizeable fragment of the writer is rejected as well. It's a piece of himself that's being turned down.