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Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.
I've learned to set boundaries and know when to say, 'I just need to rest.' I'm good at listening to what my body's telling me.
People are all the time telling me stories: they named their son after me, or more than likely their dog. Or they got a tattoo.
If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?
Silence is complicity. All Republicans who stand mute in the face of Trump's latest racism are telling you who they really are.
I don't want someone to be nice and friendly while telling me my bill's gone up by 10 per cent because they've just decided that.
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
Listening to others does not mean you should sound like them; find your own voice by telling stories as authentically as possible.
When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.
The only problems I've ever had with being honest is telling people how I feel about them or saying how I feel about other people.
I do not need anybody telling me how to do my thing. I do not care how great they are, if it is somebody I respect, I will listen.
I'm fighting back against years and years and years of the cultural and the political left telling people to sit down and shut up.
There's always gonna be setbacks; there's always gonna be knockdowns. There's always gonna be people telling you, 'Hey, you suck!'
I remember clearly watching a 'Sooty Show' at a theatre and telling my mum I wanted to be up with the puppets, not in the audience.
My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.
My job is to do the best possible job for my country, and I wouldn't want someone else telling me what I should be doing in Canada.
The reason I connected with music was because of the stories that people were telling and making me feel when I listened to a song.
When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.
What we perceive as a failure may simply be our inner being's way of telling us that we are ready to move to a new level of growth.
I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
I don't ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing 'cos that's just... that's just telling yourself a lie.
I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey?
I'm not that tough; I'm not that smart. I need life telling me who I am, showing me my mind constantly. I wouldn't see it in a cave.
I don't miss directing at all, and I don't miss screenwriting either because somebody's always telling you to do something different.
When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.
I think that one of the things that drives me in telling stories, and art in general, is finding the beautiful in a big mass of ugly.
I can keep learning about all the different technologies. It's my most telling characteristic. I'm interested in trying anything new.
I had a Tesla. I was one of the first cats with a Tesla. But I'm telling you, I've been on the side of the road a while in that thing.
I choose not to be in front of the camera. Sometimes I do get offered parts, but I really like just making movies and telling stories.
I've had people accuse me of being too tough of a grader. But my job is to paint reality versus telling people what they want to hear.
I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. They're about telling stories.
I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.
We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.
Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.
The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.
You have to live through things. You can't have other people telling you to do that and do this. It's important to live through things.
The greater good is achieved by not only telling people what they need to know, but also filling them with a sense of empathy and love.
I think one of my big struggles with being famous in my early 20s was that there was a constant running commentary telling me who I was.
I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
It's often said that everybody has a story to tell, and I suppose that's true, but the problem is that most of them aren't worth telling.
Telling me that I can't do something is probably the worst thing that anyone can say, because I'll definitely do it. I'm very determined.
After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn't meant to be.
I think it's time for the media and our leaders to get real and start telling the truth about the impact of adultery on our national life.
I've always believed in working hard, and I'm grateful that people seem to connect with the kinds of stories I'm passionate about telling.
Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I try to get it to tell stories.
Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.