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You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing, you're always right.' No, they tell me when I'm wrong, and that's why I've been able to stay who I am and stay humble.
LeBron James

Family, Humble, Friends

They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good.
Billy Sunday

Good, Temporary, Bath

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.
Sandra Cisneros

Mother, School, Become

I'm the kind of person who, if I see a shooting star, I wouldn't stay there and watch it. I'd run to my friends and tell them because I would want everyone to see it too.
Paris Hilton

Person, Friends, Everyone

After the Republican Party did everything that Colin Powell says it needs to do to grow, and nominated the very kind of candidate he wanted in 2008, what did Powell do? He endorsed Obama! So according to the Drive-Bys and David Gergen, Republicans should let somebody who campaigned and voted for Obama, tell us how to build our party.
Rush Limbaugh

Everything, After, Wanted

Look, 85% percent of Democrats think the economy's fine. What does that tell you about these people?
Rush Limbaugh

Economy, Fine, Percent

Tell them to send everything that can fly.
Richard M. Nixon

Everything, Fly, Send

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
Otto von Bismarck

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
Graham Greene

Truth, Lie, Challenge

Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.
Paul McCartney

Dad, Talk, Private

I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.
Paul McCartney

Good, Bad, Song

You have a ready wit. Tell me when it's ready.
Henny Youngman

Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.
Keith Richards

Different, Story, Everybody

Newspapers do a good job telling me what happened yesterday, but they'd be a lot more impressive if they could tell me what's going to happen tomorrow.
Fuzzy Zoeller

Good, Tomorrow, Job

You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away.
Jeffrey Eugenides

Forward, Moving, Away

Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.
Gertrude Stein

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
Jonathan Swift

Times, Sit, Pants

I don't make demands. I don't tell you how it should be. I'll give you options, and it's up to you to select or throw 'em away. That should be the headline: If you're insecure, don't call.
Russell Crowe

Give, Insecure, Away

The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.
William Shatner

Nature, Everything, May

Don't let other people tell you what you want.
Pat Riley

Look for what's missing. Many advisors can tell a President how to improve what's proposed or what's gone amiss. Few are able to see what isn't there.
Donald Rumsfeld

Able, Few, President

I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I become dangerously involved in becoming a part of that story.
Steven Spielberg

Good, Enough, Become

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
Ovid

Men, Long, Friend

You don't need a critic to tell you people aren't laughing.
Chris Rock

Laughing, Critic

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they don't necessarily do any harm. It's touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I've got my just desserts.
Christopher Hitchens

Good, Mean, Thought

A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.
Stella Adler

Society, Someone, Wrong

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Mary Oliver

Life, Plan, Wild

That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God - so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true... Hell, don't pose me that one.
David Bowie

Life, God, True

It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.
Bob Geldof

Politics, Simple, Die

The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?
David Herbert Lawrence

Great, Men, Past

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