Telling Quotes
3439 Telling quotes by 2398 unique authors
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I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I'd go around the house interviewing…
— Bernie Mac
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Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'
— Bill Maher
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If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he…
— Thurgood Marshall
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It's like all the signs were telling me that I shouldn't be a boxer, so I quit.
— Olivier Martinez
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We do long-form-style improv. Our focus was characters and telling a long arc story over about an hour and a half. It was closer to…
— Tatiana Maslany
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It was my father who instilled the 'never say no' attitude I carry around with me today, and who instilled in me a sense of…
— Marlee Matlin
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Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even…
— Jenny McCarthy
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Giants versus Jets Super Bowl. I'm telling you, that's all I want to see.
— Jesse McCartney
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I love Los Angeles, and it's been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the stories, who's living them? You don't…
— Matthew McConaughey
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A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child, 'Hear me clap,…
— Danica McKellar
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I didn't get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure…
— Sarah McLachlan
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It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
— H. L. Mencken
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Herr Schroder has conducted two electoral campaigns, and he is doing it again now, by not telling people what is really necessary. He keeps avoiding…
— Angela Merkel
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I'm just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that…
— Joyce Meyer
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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
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Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night's date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you…
— Marilyn Monroe
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When I write I try as far as possible to forget I'm writing it at all. I tell it down onto the page, as if…
— Michael Morpurgo
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I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed…
— Viggo Mortensen
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Looking at acting, in the movies or the theater, and the way I like to look at it, it's just an extension of childhood play...…
— Viggo Mortensen
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There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.
— Josefina Vazquez Mota
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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…
— Hosni Mubarak
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Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
— Alice Munro
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I take work very seriously and telling the truth in my job and professionalism.
— Brittany Murphy
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In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as…
— Michael Musto
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