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You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.
I basically applied to law school as a way of telling my parents that I wasn't going to medical school.
I don't want to be 60 years old standing on stage telling some jokes. I want my life to mean something.
Sure! Why should any experts be the arbiters... That's like telling someone they can't be a vegetarian.
There's always somebody telling you what you're not supposed to like. But that's not the way I grew up.
Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.
Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
I exaggerate when I'm angry, but I've never gone around telling people things that aren't true about me.
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
We're so used to the tests telling me if I'm smart or not. It's telling me if I know the material or not.
Even when I'm sitting up in this glass castle, I still got my street soldiers telling me what's happening.
I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.
We're all basically decent human beings so if 3,000 people are laughing at a joke then it's worth telling.
Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.
There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.
I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.
When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.
I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella.
When I won the Oscar, there was something telling me 'this isn't the truth'. I had to get back to real work.
If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else.
Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.
The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity.
I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
I think women are sick of the men in office telling us they are going to protect our rights and fight for us.
All my life, people have been telling me what to do. I'm tired of it. My private life has become an industry.
The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it.
Creating is one thing; telling the story is one thing. I see myself more as a storyteller than a story creator.
It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.
For me, it seems to help me take the pressure off if I don't pay attention to what other people are telling me.
Even when I be telling people like I'm only dropping one album, they be like, 'Nah, bro, you gotta keep going.'
People love telling their stories, even if they're very, very sad ones. People love to communicate and express.
Forty-five years since I made my first paycheck, and I'm telling you that 'Breaking Bad' is as good as it gets.
I haven't accepted anyone telling me what is or isn't possible and have just kept moving along toward my goals.
There are definitely some stories worth telling and I think there's something to be said for telling your story.
I know some of you don't care about food stamps, but I'm telling you if it feeds children, you do care about it.
People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?
The eyes are so telling. That's how you engage with people and bond with them. I love direct, strong eye contact.
Being a parent you want to be strong for your kids and ninety percent of being a parent is not telling the truth.
A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Telling someone you have a web series is the same thing as telling someone, 'On Monday, I start work at Chipotle.'
Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.
To be honest, being a fat girl, when people are telling you you need to eat, it's the biggest thrill of your life.
Anytime you're telling a story about monsterhood, you're playing around with ideas about otherness and alienation.
By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths.
I remember seeing my sister in a play when I was very young, and I remember telling my folks, 'I want to do that.'
I do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies.