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Even, today, when people tell me I'm beautiful, I do not believe a word of it.

I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second ones don't fly. They're the subs for the first ones. And then the second ones take over - so it's teamwork.

Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

If you're not going to tell something if you're not going to expose something it's real easy to go in and photograph from behind the camera and not expose any of your weaknesses.

I don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.

You know, I respect what Howard Dean has been able to do. It's good for our party. But I've got to tell you this: If money alone decided presidential nominations, Phil Gramm would have been nominated in '96.

People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.

If you find something to tell, tell it to your truest, though that make little to tell; the truer you speak, the more you will know to tell.

Accents can be a great tool to tell a story - but if you do it wrong, it pulls you right out of the movie.

All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights in general, and the elevation and Rights of Woman in particular, nearly all my life.

I won't ever got to a place that's racist, and I will tell everybody else not to and I'll speak against them. But it should be their right to be racist.

Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.

I can't tell you what a pleasure it is to just put my hair under a wig cap and slap on a wig that's already done. It's dress up for your hair!

Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.

Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?

The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.

If I got something to say or do to a man, I'm going to look that man in the eye and tell him what is going to happen. That's just me now.

My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

I want to tell people that I had post-natal depression because there is so much stigma around the subject and there shouldn't be.

Sometimes you try a song and people don't respond, or you tell a story and you just hear crickets. But when you play thousands of shows, you start to refine stuff.

When I was growing up I always wanted to be a waitress. My sister opened a restaurant in Mississippi, and I went down there and was a waitress for a few days. Let me tell you, I got it out of my system.

The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.

If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.

You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell.

There's a great argument about how many men he actually killed. People would tell stories and then as we all know as stories get told over and over again, they get embellished, facts get changed, elaborated upon, exaggerated.

I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was doing between 1960 and 1974.

If anyone ever asked me what I had to complain about it would not have taken long to tell them. Maybe I was just easily pleased.