"He [Elton John] is pushing his face in all the time and telling us about his private life. Nobody's interested. He should just go away."
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"Knock! knock! who's there? me! me who? that's right? what's right? meehoo! that's what I want to know! what's what you want to know? me who? yes, exactly! exactly what? yes, I have exactlywatt on a chain! exactly what on a chain? yes! yes what? no, exactlywatt! that's what I want to know! I told you-exactlywatt! exactly what? yes! yes what? yes it's with me. what's with you? exactlywatt-that's what with me. me who? yes! go away! knock knock..."
"Go away. I'm all right. [last words]"
"When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion."
"People think they will wake up one day and I'll be gone. But I'm never going away."
"A television advertisement must illustrate the scientific method to substantiate any claim.... That is why stains are lifted, ring-around-the-collar is removed, paper towels become soaked, excess stomach acid is absorbed, and headaches go away-all during the commercial."
"Though my problems are meaningless, that don't make them go away."
"It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this."
"When you have a stomach ache you don't tell your stomach to go away."
"I walked over to Drake and stomped on his foot. Hard. "What will I give you to help me? What will I give you?" He stood on one leg rubbing his foot, grinning a grin so steamy, it almost melted my underwear. "I never doubted you would defeat her. You are my mate. You could do no less." I pointed a finger at him. "You are too arrogant for your own good. I officially de-mate you. Go away. I never want to see you again. Except maybe tonight. Naked. Your place. But after that, no more."
"If I'm intimidated, I shouldn't be directing a movie. I gotta treat 'em as characters, not as stars. It's hard to not treat Marlon Brando as a legend, a star, it's difficult not to treat Robert De Niro as a star, but that had to go away very fast after I knew them, because I had to work with them. I'm the director, I'm the boss. They're looking to me for guidance."
"I'm always fearful of something happening to people I love. That doesn't go away."
"I believe humankind has looked at Climate Change in that same way: as if it were a fiction, happening to someone else’s planet, as if pretending that Climate Change wasn’t real would somehow make it go away."
"There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin."
"I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it."
"It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that everyone was forsaking me and going away from me."
"It doesn't take any effort to dream. It's a lot easier than looking at the problems in front of you and figuring out what you're going to do about them. But all you're doing is putting your problems up on a shelf for later, right? That doesn't make them go away."
"Rachel, you summon demons. You’re good at it. Get over it, then find a way to make it work for you. It’s not going to go away."
"If you just want to be a star, go away."
"When you are sitting in a room and somebody does something or says something and a thought comes, an idea or a melody - you have to just grab it while it's there because it will go away."