Quotes with telling

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  • Bill Bryson It was impossible to determine what he was saying, but I imagined he was telling all those present that they were nongs and maggots. I decided I quite liked watching the news with the sound off.
    In a Sunburned Country (US) / Down Under (UK) (2000)
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Arthur E. Waite It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
    Arthur E. Waite
    American-born British poet and mystic (1857 - 1942)
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  • Mohsin Hamid It's important to have a non-nostalgic view and say, let's look forward, because if we don't, all we'll hear are voices telling us to go back.
    Mohsin Hamid
    British Pakistani novelist, writer (1971 - )
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  • Bruce Perens It's not about ego. Really. If it was ego, I'd be telling you about my awesome... oh, never mind.
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  • Carmen Agra Deedy Listening to others does not mean you should sound like them; find your own voice by telling stories as authentically as possible.
    Carmen Agra Deedy
    American author of children’s literature
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  • Ben Harper Make no mistake about it, making a good record is pure, unadulterated pain. If you fall and break your leg--that's pain. But I'm telling you, the phase between pain and death? That's making a good record. It's extreme.
    Roots Radical, Guitar Player (December 1, 1999)
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Thomas J. Peters Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
    Thomas J. Peters
    American Management Consultant, Author, Trainer (1942 - )
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  • Alice Munro Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • Anne McCaffrey Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Broderick Crawford My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.
    Broderick Crawford
    American actor (1911 - 1986)
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  • George Bernard Shaw My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Buddy Hackett Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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  • Anita Brookner No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Lionel Strachey One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.
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  • Bonnie Hunt Oprah was not somebody who was telling us what to do, she wasn't really teaching us like so many people we see today. With Oprah, she was learning and we were learning with her. And I think that's really was the seed that was planted for all of us to just hang in there with her.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Bono Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Richard Marcinko Pain was their body's way of telling them that they'd pushed themselves to their limits - which was exactly where they were supposed to be.
    Richard Marcinko
    American Navy officer and Vietnam War veteran (1940 - )
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  • Bill Irwin People keep telling us, that they didn't know when they were booking tickets for it, but afterwards they say that they've had no sense that they were watching an old fashioned play.
    Bill Irwin
    American actor, clown and comedian (1950 - )
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