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Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information.

I wouldn't tell Jill how I felt. I behaved in such a way that was opposite to how I felt. I must have seemed strong to her. I didn't want to bring her down.

Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'.

I have been the subject of ridicule. People talk about me and they don't know me and this is an opportunity to tell my story... to have my voice and to set the record straight.

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I'd had to tell them.

When they tell you that you have cancer, you panic.

The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.

I've always been pretty tough in that way, where if you tell me I can't do something, I will prove you wrong.

You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.

I will tell you, I'm a lousy cook, but I think I'm a pretty good judge of a good meal.

I tell her all the time I'd gladly retire and hang out with the kids and clean the house. I want to have a good life and great family, and from a professional standpoint I want to be successful, but it's not the most important thing at all.

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.

They've got to tell us what is necessary to ensure the future health of the river system.

When you put your hand on the Bible, you are saying something much stronger than just telling your peers that you're going to tell the truth.

I've always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can't tell to an audience. There's a fine line you have to tread because you don't know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.

Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.

When you're reading Thoreau you look at Hollywood differently, let me tell ya!

You can tell a lot from someone's eyes.

Dostoevski does not tell you what to think about his legend, but he requires that you think about it. The novelist was a deeply religious man and he always thought many readers missed that point about him.

A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.

I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

To tell an ally - who is shedding blood next to you - that you can't share information is a crime.

The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.

All I'm going to tell you is investigations, whether it be this and others, where you have partial facts, analysts, agents are always trying to interpret what those facts mean, extrapolate from them what they mean.

I have some good stories yet to tell.

The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia.

But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.