"I hope you're as lucky as me and hold on to the job until you're the old guy, " Leno said in a statement.

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But I got to say -- hold on one second, let me just finish this.

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And after beating the so-called new kids on the block, you can't hold it against me to be fighting guys of my own age!

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And a small business might wonder, I don't know how the energy bill is going to affect me, I don't know how the health care reform bill is going to affect me -- I'd better hold off on hiring.

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If you'd like me to -- no, no, no, hold on, hold on.

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Dial the 800 number, work through a dizzying array of menu choices, choose to speak with a human being and wait on hold listening to music for 20 minutes to two hours (it happened to me once) and you might reach a person who can (in only 70% of my cases) provide definitive, final help.

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It has taught me not only to hold an arabesque but to maintain an inner grace -- drawing on a psychological or spiritual core, a place of honesty and strength.

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But in my home, I was trying to hold on to as much of the traditional female role as possible, partly because my husband wasn't backing me up in terms of picking up the slack in our family relationships.

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Accompanying the three visits were a lot of phone calls from me spread over several months to the company, and a lot of time spent on hold.

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