Quotes with tell-tales

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  • Brene Brown One thing that I tell people all the time is, 'I'm not going to answer a call from you after nine o'clock at night or before nine o'clock in the morning unless it's an emergency.'
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Assata Shakur Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is....never let your enemies choose your enemies for you.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Joan Didion Only the dying man can tell how much time he has left.
    Source: The Year of Magical Thinking (2007) 24
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Bill Bixby Parents should watch what their children watch and not use TV as a babysitter. If a show is objectionable they should turn it OFF. They should write the president of the network and tell him they are never going to watch that program again and why.
    Bill Bixby
    American actor, director and producer (1934 - 1993)
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  • Bob Monkhouse People always say: You're a comedian, tell us a joke. They don't say: You're an MP, tell us a lie.
    Source: Independent on Sunday obituary
    Bob Monkhouse
    English entertainer and comedian (1928 - 2003)
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  • Cate Blanchett People assume actors are born liars, but I'd argue the actor's job is to tell the truth. And I've realised I'm not a good liar.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Bobby Seale People called me a hoodlum and a thug. But they didn't tell you I was a carpenter, an architect, a stand-up comic - even a bartender. And a barbecue cook. But they didn't tell you that.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Bob Barr People come up to me and tell me they support me because I never left my principles.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Bruce Scheneier People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.
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  • Steven Spielberg People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.
    Steven Spielberg
    American director, producer, and screenwriter (1946 - )
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  • Anne McCaffrey People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Brenda Blethyn People say to me that I can't be nervous because I've had such a wealth of experience, but I tell them that I have never done this particular part before.
    Brenda Blethyn
    English actress (1946 - )
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  • Clark Kenneth People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.
    Clark Kenneth
     
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  • Ben Foster People tell me I look angry. I thought my dad was mad at me his whole life, but it turns out that was just his mug - and I inherited it.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Carrie-Anne Moss People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.
    Carrie-Anne Moss
    Canadian actress (1967 - )
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  • Carolyn Murphy People that I'm most attracted to, they're not living by any sort of rules. They're the kind of people with stories to tell.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Bernie Ecclestone People want to build new circuits around the world and they say: 'We'll come to Silverstone and have a look how it's done', and I tell them to stay away.
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  • Robertson Davies Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • Margaret Thatcher Power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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