Quotes with tell-tales

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  • William Hazlitt We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear one more than once.
    Source: Characteristics (1823)
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Bobby Jindal We must insist on assimilation - immigration without assimilation is an invasion. We need to tell folks who want to come here, they need to come here legally. They need to learn English, adopt our values, roll up their sleeves and get to work.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita We really can't tell the difference between people who might seek power for some greater good and people who seek power just to aggrandize themselves. For example, all revolutionaries say that they want to uplift the downtrodden.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bode Miller We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing. But every coach, when they say that, they say it tongue in cheek, 'Don't worry about winning': If you win I'll get you ice cream, but if you lose I'm going to pout in the car.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Joan Didion We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
    Source: The White Album (1979)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Casey Kasem We tell stories. We talk about statistics. And in 1978, we added an element of the show that gave it its heartbeat: the long distance dedication.
    Casey Kasem
     
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  • Arthur Hays Sulzberger We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.
    Arthur Hays Sulzberger
    American newspaper publisher (1891 - 1968)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu We travelers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • William James We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think.
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • Bonnie Bassler We've all been sick; we're all afraid of infection. I think the easiest application to help people understand what quorum sensing is and why it's important to study is to tell them that if we could make the bacteria either deaf or mute, we could create new antibiotics.
    Bonnie Bassler
    American molecular biologist
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  • Sean O'Casey Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.
    Sean O'Casey
    Irish Dramatist (1880 - 1964)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Wear your learning like a watch and do not pull it out merely to show you have it. If you are asked for the time, tell it; but do not proclaim it hourly unasked.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Brandon DiCamillo Well that wraps up another episode, let me tell ya, balls are good and eels are delicious and I'm sitting here with two hot ass bitches, I'll see ya next week if my name is Norm.
    Source: From Brand Icelandic Gameshow
    Brandon DiCamillo
    American actor, stunt performer, filmmaker and musician (1976 - )
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  • John Pierpont Morgan Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.
    John Pierpont Morgan
    American banker, financer, art collector (1837 - 1913)
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  • Bobby Farrelly Well, there are conjoined twins in real life and we can tell a story about them so long as they're not the brunt of the jokes. In this, they're the heroes of this story; we love these guys.
    Bobby Farrelly
    American film director, screenwriter and producer (1958 - )
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  • Bill Kreutzmann Well, to tell you the straight honest truth, it was like a Grateful Dead cover band. I didn't feel - and nothing against the guys - I didn't feel that they were opening up like they should. I'll tell you what, with guitar players, Steven has what I like in guitar players.
    Bill Kreutzmann
    American drummer (1946 - )
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  • Kenneth Grahame Well, well, perhaps I am a bit of a talker. A popular fellow such as I am - my friends get round me - we chaff, we sparkle, we tell witty stories - and somehow my tongue gets wagging. I have the gift of conversation. I've been told I ought to have a salon, whatever that may be.
    Kenneth Grahame
    British novelist (1859 - 1932)
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