Sometimes it’s a character you want to play or a story you want to tell. Sometimes it’s just to pay the bills.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. That’s the funniest joke in the world.
Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the most beautiful country in the world with so much good in it, and ended up feeling guilty about it. He had to do something to make it fair. And so, he created the French people.
I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.
Don’t tell me how to do my job. I don’t come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.
I tell my engineers that they should not overload me with information.
I had a very famous trainer tell me once, ‘You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever.’ They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.
It’s important to tell queer stories and to show queer relationships in a very normal setting.
Always go into meetings or negotiations with a positive attitude. Tell yourself you’re going to make this the best deal for all parties.
I’ll tell you one thing, since I’m married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.
People will always have an opinion, but you have to live life the way you want to. It’s very easy to tell others what to do, but difficult to implement it on yourself.
The bad thing about being a famous comedian is that every now and then someone approaches me to tell an old joke. Don’t tell me jokes – I have that. People also say the weirdest things, sometimes sarcastic things, and even evil things. They like to provoke to get a reaction.
I tell myself that I created the wardrobe of the contemporary woman, that I participated in the transformation of my times.
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.
I always leave everything on the court, every game. Tell me how many other players can say that.
When my son was growing up, I was always guilty, no matter what I did. Make decisions and be happy with the decisions you’ve made. I tell myself, in the long run, it’s the love, the quality of relationships that you have with your family, your friends and giving back to the community that matters.
Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it’s usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.
I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts – spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back – length of life.
I lived in constant terror of being asked a question in class. Even if I knew the answer, I was never able to tell it before the class.
I started dancing first, but felt I could also tell my story through my music.
I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment.
I like all types of women. I accept them as they are when they come into my life… But I’m not a romantic. I’m just up-front. I like to be a part of something real, not make-believe. I tell women to tell me the truth, to just lay it out. Let me be the judge and decide if I want you around or not. Let me have my choice.
I’ll be in Los Angeles for two weeks and I’ll have a laugh, get battered and have a buzz, but at the end of the day, I’ll go home. It’s just me earning a few more stories to tell everyone at home and all.
History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.
Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time… It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
You close the door on me and tell me I can’t, I’m gonna find a way to get in.
I don’t worry about the last shot or the next shot. I concentrate. Every shot gets a clean slate. And when a shot is over, I wipe it out absolutely. Tell a joke or something. If you worry about how you looked, how well you did, you’ll go insane.
I’ll play it first and tell you what it is later.
Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.
Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn’t be my job.
Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.
All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them?
What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
I can’t tell you how many hot dogs I’ve eaten in my life.
I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it’s simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is.
Work hard. I got tenure a year early. Junior faculty members used to say to me: ‘Wow, what’s your secret?’ I said: ‘It’s pretty simple. Call me any Friday night in my office at 10 o’clock, and I’ll tell you.’
I know that some people shy away from what I say. They think it is too blunt, but when you don’t give people that, they feel like you are being fake and you’re not telling the truth. So it’s like, you want me to tell the truth, but when I do, it’s too much for you.
In general I think that in art you only have the responsibility to tell the truth.
I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.
‘Healing,’ Papa would tell me, ‘is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.’
I’m just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell.
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
When you’re righteous, you don’t have to tell people that you’re righteous.
Because of the vulgar advent, I decided to give way and, by dark and cryptic sentences, tell of the causes of the future mutation of mankind; especially the most urgent ones, and the ones I perceived, and in a manner that would not upset their fragile sentiments.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
I can tell very quickly when people are lying.
Stand-up is no bureaucracy. No one can tell me what to do or not to do.
I make pictures to tell a story, to tell lies, and to amuse.
Always tell the truth – it’s the easiest thing to remember.
When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
I don’t know how to tell a joke. I never tell jokes. I can tell stories that happened to me… anecdotes. But never a joke.
Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know.
Whenever I go to New York or any European country, they say: ‘Nawal, why don’t you get a facelift?’ I tell them, ‘I am proud of my wrinkles. Every wrinkle on my face tells the story of my life. Why should I hide my age?’
I often tell my students not to be misled by the name ‘artificial intelligence’ – there is nothing artificial about it. AI is made by humans, intended to behave by humans, and, ultimately, to impact humans’ lives and human society.
The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?
I’ll tell you one thing, it’s a cruel, cruel world.
I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I’m not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don’t want to come off egotistical.
I do have my own personal convictions and values, and I live by those. But as an artist, as a portrait photographer, my job is to tell the truth and to capture someone’s spirit on a certain day. And it’s never the whole truth; it’s the truth I experience in a very intense and intimate fashion.
I think when people begin to tell their stories, everything changes, because not only are you legitimised in the telling of your story and are you found, literally, like you matter, you exist in the telling of your story, but when you hear your story be told, you suddenly exist in community and with others.
If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty – not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.
