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Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are.
Ben Affleck

Political, Vote, Tell

Well, acting itself is a form of rebellion, always. Getting up there in front of people, telling stories - you're kind of going against the grain to begin with, wanting to do that, don't you think? Why else would you do it? Except maybe as kind of a way to affirm your very existence.
John Cusack

Why, Acting, Else

The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human lives - our lives - dignity.
Jonathan Safran Foer

Human, Book, Give

When you read something you have written, you have to confront some of the lies you have been telling yourself.
Jonathan Safran Foer

Yourself, Read, Lies

When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.
Jamie Foxx

Different, Destiny, Energy

Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.
Johann Lamont

Politics, Truth, Challenge

I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.
Cate Blanchett

Women, Works, Sitting

It's got too much hard work slapping them and telling them to shut up.
Jo Brand

Work, Hard, Shut

I am telling you before anything, that the blood of the martyrs and the injured will not go in vain. And I would like to affirm, I will not hesitate to punish those who are responsible fiercely. I will hold those in charge who have violated the rights of our youth with the harshest punishment stipulated in the law.
Hosni Mubarak

Law, Before, Youth

I hate a movie that will end by telling you that the first thing you should do is learn to love yourself. That is so insulting and condescending, and so meaningless. My characters don't learn to love each other or themselves.
Charlie Kaufman

Love, Hate, Yourself

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.
Maxine Waters

Anger, Nice, Angry

I take work very seriously and telling the truth in my job and professionalism.
Brittany Murphy

Work, Truth, Job

The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.
James Lovelock

Rain, Down, Once

It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
Ice Cube

Funny, Down, America

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.
Salman Rushdie

Play, Become, Story

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.
June Jordan

Truth, Poetry, Political

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.
June Jordan

Truth, Deep, Serious

You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.
E. W. Howe

Love, Enemy, Him

To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth.
Jonathan Frid

Truth, Friend, Person

There's always been a man telling me what to do.
Loretta Lynn

I believe in horoscopes. I was born under the sign of the Ram, which means I'm headstrong, don't like people telling me what to do.
Loretta Lynn

Means, Born, Sign

It's not that I'm universally loved. We know I'm not in New Jersey. But what they do say in New Jersey is, 'We like him, and we think he's telling us the truth.' I think we need to have that type of politics on the national level.
Chris Christie

Politics, Truth, Him

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.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Truth, Liar, Everything

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.
Bruce Springsteen

Society, Point, United

When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.
Harlan Coben

Writing, Fire, Big

It's odd, that's why I don't like telling people I played field hockey. It's real big in Australia for guys. But I say I played in America, and everybody goes, 'Oh, you girl!'
Heath Ledger

Girl, Real, America

I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.
Gene Tierney

Father, Him, Used

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.
Tom Hanks

Best, Technology, Story

I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from Washington and think tanks telling us what needs to be 'fixed' - I hate such a mechanistic word, as if our schools were automobile engines - ever asks the opinions of teachers.
Jonathan Kozol

Hate, Word, Opinions

Joan Rivers telling Lauren Bacall her dress is all wrong is like Carrot Top telling Lenny Bruce he needs to get an edge.
Dennis Miller

Wrong, Her, Needs

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