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My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.

If you tell a lie to make a person better, then that is not a sin.

I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.

Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?

To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.

I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves.

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.

I was under contract with Hitchcock before I even met him. They wouldn't tell me anything about the film, or who was working on it. They had all sorts of excuses as to why they couldn't tell me anything.

I went to a Gestalt therapist and said that I want to be able to at least tell my muscles that aren't involved that they don't have to go into spasms too.

I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll.

That song is a story that shows how easily you could get slipped into being labeled as the bad guy, even though what you really trying to do is tell the bad guy to leave you alone.

I was once married to a woman who could eat anything and tell you what was in it: the most complicated recipes. Her memory of taste - now that's what I call memory!

I love food, all food, everything about food. I enjoy going to the market and having what's in front of me - what's fresh, seasonal - tell me what I'm cooking.

I'll tell you why, I don't invite the ones I don't like.

I actually didn't get to go to my prom. I left high school when I was 16 to join 'NSYNC. I felt that was something I always missed out on, and all my friends got to go and would tell me about it.

I can't tell a joke to save my soul. It's just not my thing, though I love to listen to jokes.

People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country. They want you to tell about what you saw.

One thing any backpacker will tell you is that it's tedious and monotonous. You're bored sometimes, so you really have to make the fun in your head.

The con movie is a little bit different where maybe we tell you what we're going to do but it never goes down the way you expect because there's so much double-crossing and cheats and lies going on along the whole way.

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

Once I was in a cafe in Portland and the woman at the next table and I began chatting and in the course of our conversation she strongly recommend I visit this web site called 'The Rumpus' so I could read this advice column called 'Dear Sugar.' It was so painful not to tell her that in fact I was Sugar, but I didn't.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

One can tell or do whatever one wants when one is in the Opposition but once one is running a state, one cannot do that.

I'm not someone who enjoys long talks, long rehearsals. I'm very technical: I tell my actors, you come in, you sit down, you pick up a coffee, you look here, you say the line. We try it with the cameras rolling, and if it doesn't work, we adjust it until it does. It's very simple.

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do.

In case of emergency, do whatever your best friends tell you to do!