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  • Don Marquis Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Mignon McLaughlin Bored with your present enemies? Make new ones! Tell two of your women friends that they look alike.
    Source: The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Bill James Bunting is usually a waste of time. The - generally, yeah, I mean, if you think about it, bunt is the only play in baseball that both sides applaud. The - if the home team bunts, you get a base. The home team applauds because they get an out, and the other team applauds because they get a base. So what does that tell you?
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Calista Flockhart But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
    Calista Flockhart
    American actress (1964 - )
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  • Ben Folds But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that's the center of it, that is it. It's almost like there's something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you're a songwriter that sings your material.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Alan Watts But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Carl Levin Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability to shoot through body armor.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • Bill James Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Robert Townsend Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch.
    Robert Townsend
    American businessman
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  • Camilla Lackberg Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
    Camilla Lackberg
    Swedish author (1974 - )
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  • Walter Benjamin Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Berkeley Breathed Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Alfred Hitchcock Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Bob Newhart Dick Martin, if you put a gun to his forehead, he couldn't tell you a joke.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Oscar Wilde Do you really think, Arthur, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Erica Jong Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Bob Dylan Don't ask me nothin' about nothin'. I just might tell you the truth.
    Source: Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Babe Ruth Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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