Quotes with tell-tales

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  • Aaron McGruder When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
    Aaron McGruder
    American writer, lecturer and producer (1974 - )
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist is to behave like a piece of chalk, or a pen, or a wet brush, it will.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Bruce Nordstrom When we go out to the university, the professors always say, 'Tell these students about your five-year plan and your 10-year plan,' and I say, 'Gee, we're lucky if we have a year plan.'
    Bruce Nordstrom
    American businessman (1933 - )
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  • Theodore Roosevelt When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Campbell Brown When you have Candidate A saying the sky is blue, and Candidate B saying it's a cloudy day, I look outside and I see, well, it's a cloudy day. I should be able to tell my viewers, 'Candidate A is wrong, Candidate B is right,' and not have to say, 'Well, you decide.' Then it would be like I'm an idiot.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch When you see a good horseman, you're unable to tell where the instruction is coming from. It's like telepathy.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Bill Bryson When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Otto Von Bismarck When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
    Otto Von Bismarck
    German statesman and prime minister (1815 - 1898)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, ''Certainly I can!'' - and get busy and find out how to do it.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • William Shakespeare While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • A. E. Housman Who made the world I cannot tell;
    'Tis made, and here am I in hell.
    My hand, though now my knuckles bleed,
    I never soiled with such a deed.
    Source: More Poems (1936) No. 19, st. 2
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Bubba Watson Why do I want somebody to tell me what to do, tell me what I'm doing wrong? I want to be the boss.
    Bubba Watson
    American professional golfer (1978 - )
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  • Seneca Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Emily Dickinson Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Bob Newhart With the stand-up comic on TV, whether it's Seinfeld or Cosby or Roseanne, more important than their knowledge of how to tell a joke is their knowledge of themselves, or the persona they've created as themselves. So that when you're in a room with writers, you can say, 'Guys, that's a funny line, but I wouldn't say it.'
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Lewis Carroll Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? ''That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.'' Said the Cat. I don't much care where - Said Alice. Then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the Cat.
    Source: Alice in wonderland
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Bill Walsh Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.
    Bill Walsh
    American football coach (1931 - 2007)
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  • Adrian Grenier You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't have to invent the energy, the energy is there.
    Adrian Grenier
    American actor, producer, director and musician (1976 - )
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  • Laurence J. Peter You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
    Laurence J. Peter
    Canadian educator and hierarchiologist (1919 - 1990)
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