Quotes with tell-tales

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  • Frank Gelett Burgess Ah, yes, I wrote the ''Purple Cow'' - I'm sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you, anyhow, I'll kill you if you quote it.
    Frank Gelett Burgess
    American artist, art critic and poet
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  • Bertrand Russell All fear is bad, and ought to be overcome not by fairy tales, but by courage and rational reflection.
    Source: On Fear
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Babe Ruth All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Brandon Lee All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, your own instincts, and your own life.
    Brandon Lee
    American actor (1965 - 1993)
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  • Vince Lombardi All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means... you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Bidzina Ivanishvili All the therapists would tell me was that I was the only healthy person they knew.
    Bidzina Ivanishvili
    Georgian politician, billionaire businessman and philanthropist (1956 - )
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  • Carl Clinton Van Doren Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.
    Carl Clinton Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1980)
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  • Robert A. Heinlein Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • David Mamet Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.
    David Mamet
    American Playwright (1947 - )
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  • Boris Becker An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Brandi Chastain And then ultimately what I tell the kids is: coaches can give you information, they can give you guidelines, and they can put you in a position. But the only person who can truly make you better is you.
    Brandi Chastain
    American soccer player (1968 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the faces of women and children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger. And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
    Source: Chicago l. 10 (1916)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Barack Obama And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending "don't ask, don't tell," making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Peter Ackroyd And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside a book and never come out again? I loved reading so much I wanted to be a part of it, and there were some books I could have stayed in for ever.
    Source: First Light (1996) 50
    Peter Ackroyd
    English biographer, novelist and critic (1949 - )
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  • Thomas Gray Any fool may write a most valuable book by change, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.
    Source: Sketch of his own character
    Thomas Gray
    British poet (1716 - 1771)
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  • Billie Jean King Any therapist will tell you that when you're ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren't ready.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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