My wife tells me I should check out ‘Downton Abbey’, but I gather that series might be almost too intense for my temperate nature.
I believe anything that anyone tells me. I have found that that is the best way to go through life. When I was younger, I used to be more skeptical, but then I found out that most things were true. So I believe tabloids. I believe legends. I believe anything anyone tells me.
Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.
Insider trading tells everybody at precisely the wrong time that everything is rigged, and only people who have a billion dollars and have access to and are best friends with people who are on boards of directors of major companies – they’re the only ones who can make a true buck.
We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‘Gimme, gimme, gimme,’ you will always be in short supply.
I want to be, like, a fertility minister. Like, someone who takes you by the hand and tells you that it’ll be OK.
I don’t want to be the flavor, the passing thing that the girls scream at. I think that it’s more important for me, honestly, that the guy who gets dragged to the show, you know, looks at his wife and says, thank you, that was great and tells his buddies.
I’m too busy thinking what I’m going to say next to remember what I’ve said, but my staff tells me I’m sometimes funny. Not always on purpose, though.
The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother’s advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.
No, no I’m not, no, but I just think… when people are naked it tells you a lot about their relationships.
A coward is not someone who goes right to your face and tells you exactly how it is. A coward is someone who walks away.
Ponzi and all of his successors tap into a fundamental part of human nature. One part of our brain tells us this is too good to be true. The other side tells us this is too good to miss. The key to any con is getting a mark to tip to the too-good-to-miss side.
It’s silly that anyone in this world tells you that there are only certain people that can marry you.
I cried when I watched ‘The Notebook’ for the first time. Any guy who tells you they didn’t cry when they watched ‘The Notebook’s just lying.
It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything – until, that is, it comes to climate science.
When Keats says: ‘Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses’, what he means is that we don’t necessarily believe what a poem is saying if it comes out and tells us in an absolutely head-on, in-your-face way; we only believe it to be true if we feel it to be true.
Something happens to me when someone says, ‘You can’t.’ I’m generally not very competitive; unless someone tells me I can’t do something that should be done.
As a car lover, I ask myself, ‘What am I going to be buying in the future? Will it be a boring, underpowered, dorky car because the government tells me I shouldn’t pollute? Or do I come up with a cool-looking, sexy dream car that is also part of the future?’
My mom tells me the first show we saw was ‘The Secret Garden,’ but I don’t remember that.
I’m the kind of guy who, I need a watch that tells me what day it is. I need to know it’s Friday on my watch. I need to look at it and go, ‘Friday today.’ Tomorrow I will not know it’s Saturday until I look at my watch. My watchband broke, I was crippled. I have no concept of time, I have no concept of dates.
There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
The American dream tells you that you’ll have success if you work hard enough, and we have some concerns about that fallacy. Hopefully, the characters in our films learn to redefine success.
I have no time for women who don’t support other women. It’s the ultimate compliment when a woman tells you that you look good.
I think failure is the best thing for some people. It tells you whether you’re in the right job or the wrong one.
I tell you, it was kind of two-fold. I fortunately had a lot of support. My coach was amazing – he told me to focus on being prepared and that is what I did. Every athlete is nervous – any athlete who tells you they’re not nervous isn’t telling you the truth. I was as prepared as I could be.
Someone once told me to believe 5 percent of what everybody tells you.
Music is very nebulous, and you can conjure up a lot of moods with music. But lyrics – they’re a lot more tangible. They’re much more specific. And you want to say something meaningful and creative and artistic and that tells a story and that takes people someplace else.
So much of comedy happens between your chin and your shoulders. Nobody tells you when you get your own TV show that you’re going to watch yourself in the edit room over and over and over again. It’s a tough lesson.
As income inequality increases, the social and political sway of those at the very, very top grows, too. They are nearly all men, and men whose lived experience tells them that women, for whatever reason, just don’t have what it takes.
It’s striking and unique in London how you know to create this alchemy between the concept, the food, the music, the staff. From the beginning to the end, with all these different elements, it tells a full story that you know very well how to develop and cultivate.
No one tells a child how to see, especially in the early years. They learn this through real-world experiences and examples.
All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.
You want to have that trust with your QB; you want to build that camaraderie throughout your team and just have that relationship with them, so when you’re out there, he doesn’t have anything to worry about. He tells you to run this route, you run it to the best of your ability and be there for him.
Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on.
The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.
At the base of it, my gut instinct tells me that there’s a kind of fundamental misogyny in the culture. There just is. You know, there’s just a weird anxiety around women.
Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.
I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it’s not for them. It’s for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
Music tells no truths.
If somebody tells you to lose weight, it is like a punch in the face.
A woman tells her doctor, ‘I’ve got a bad back.’ The doctor says, ‘It’s old age.’ The woman says, ‘I want a second opinion.’ The doctor says: ‘Okay – you’re ugly as well.’
A woman who tells her age tells everything, and I won’t tell it.
In society, one doesn’t tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.
I think there’s something inherently interesting in the Monday morning quarterback: the guy who, you know, sits at one end of the briefing room and tells everyone what they should’ve done and how they’ve screwed up.
The art of reading physical tells isn’t an exact science.
Mom always tells me to celebrate everyone’s uniqueness. I like the way that sounds.
The Arab League tells us to go in and take out Qaddafi. We’ve spent billions of dollars already with respect to the Arab League. Billions of dollars, because they told us to do it. Why aren’t they paying for it? They don’t like Qaddafi, Qaddafi’s been a terrible thorn in their side.
My girlfriend tells me if I’m doing a movie I’m a roller coaster of emotions all the time, but on ‘Boardwalk,’ because I’ve done it for so long and I’m so in tune with the character, she says I’m pretty happy most of the time.
I was not a very good Jew. I never practised what Judaism tells you to do, to teach your kids all about Judaism.
Picasso said, ‘Art is a lie that tells the truth.’ What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?
My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.
If you live in a good neighborhood, you drive home and there’s a bank. There’s grocery stores and big houses – but no motels. What that tells you psychologically is you protect your money and buy good things for your family to eat in your nice big house.
Your television has changed, your phone has changed. Why don’t these other things you need, that the government tells you you must have in your home, change?
When someone tells me not to do something, I’ll do it more.
