Told How Quotes
38 quotes by 35 authors
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I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things…
— Clara Barton
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The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to…
— Winston Churchill
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There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is…
— Tom Clancy
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Being politicians, they all got to sharing their personal stories. Obama talked about his mother's battle with cancer. Harry Reid talked about a kid with…
— Bill Maher
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How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on power.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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I was never coached; I was never told how to hold a bat.
— Donald Bradman
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Mental acuity of any kind comes from solving problems yourself, not from being told how to solve them.
— Paul Lockhart
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It's empowering to be asked to look at what's possible, not told how to do it.
— Jack Dorsey
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The counselor at our clinic would cry with the girls at the drop of a hat. She would find their weakness and work on it.…
— Debbie Harry
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No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and…
— Woodrow Wilson
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I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through…
— Judi Dench
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Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.
— Val Kilmer
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Its very important to me to be respected by true talented artists and great minds than by the masses who need to be told how…
— Suzy Kassem
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Old muleskinners told how the mules were waiting at the shaft when they arrived each morning. They wanted relief from the heat, deerflies and mosquitoes…
— Harry Anderson
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I will always remember my delight when Mrs. Georgia Gilmore - an unlettered woman of unusual intelligence - told how an operator demanded that she…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It's very hard not to let fame affect you because you are continually being told how good you are. After a while you begin to…
— Jack Wild
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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told…
— Simon Hoggart
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There's so much going on in the world. There's so much information being thrown at us - so many things are being sold to us,…
— Michael Fassbender
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
— Rachel Cusk
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You always get told how important the premiere and doing the press is, but I have suspicions.
— Toby Jones
Who Wrote These Told How Quotes
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