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My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.

Don't let anyone try to tell you who you are. Define yourself.

Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.

With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western.

If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.

Well, you can, but tell you this, that when you've got an economy that is growing at 4.9% it is the fastest growth over the last 12 months we've seen in 20 years.

I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.

Tell the children the truth.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

The first thing I can really tell you is I really love the work.

Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.

Be able to tell whether garments that look good on the hanger actually look good on you.

We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated.

Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They'll tell you.

People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.

I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

I'll play it and tell you what it is later.

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

I've always wondered, what am I going to do that's important with these stupid jokes that I tell.

You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad.

You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

When they tell me one of my old movies is on TV, I don't look at it.

What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.