Told Me Quotes
2338 Told Me quotes by 1631 unique authors
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My coach told me, "Larry, no matter how much you work at it, there's always someone out there who's working just a little harder -…
— Larry Bird
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Many years ago a very wise man named Bernard Baruch took me aside and put his arm around my shoulder. "Harpo my boy," he said,…
— Harpo Marx
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When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'That knowledge is for me alone.'…
— George Washington Carver
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I had to have my first kiss in front of, like, a hundred people. I didn't know what to do. So my sisters told me…
— Lacey Chabert
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Hello...Although you (reporters) are busy thank you for coming to this place. Today, the reason that I called you...I wanted to talk about some girl.…
— Youngjae
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To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them.
— Marita Golden
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'You told me, Father, that after my past life it is still possible to become another St. Augustine. I don't doubt it, and today more…
— Josemaria Escriva
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In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution…
— Karen Hughes
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My selective memory of what drinking was like told me that standing at the bar in a pub, on a summer's evening with a long,…
— Eric Clapton
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My doctor told me that jogging could add years to my life. I think he was right. I feel ten years older already.
— Milton Berle
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Then they told me about the call from home and that they were taking the threats seriously. I don't know why, but hearing I was…
— Malala Yousafzai
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It's just like Eddie Sharkey told me along time ago...GET THE MONEY!
— Unknown Author
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I WAS YOUNG!! I WAS STUPID.. YOU TOLD ME GIRLS BOUGHT THAT MAGAZINE!!
— Shawn Michaels
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My father once told me of a trick question he used in a college class on forest fire control. If there was a fire coming…
— Charlotte Sophia Kasl
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An acting teacher once told me, 'Greet everything with yes... Even if you abandon one idea for another one, saying yes allows you to move…
— Tina Fey
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Nobody wanted me. Scouts told me to go to school, to forget baseball. Coaches said, 'You're never going to make it.' I appreciated their honesty,…
— Mike Piazza
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Many people have told me that I should quit, but I have not yet finished proving them wrong.
— Wes Fesler
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My first-grade teacher told me I was the dumbest student she ever had. She did me a favor. If she told me I was very…
— Ernest Gallo
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I turned 30 and everyone told me I would feel different and I didn't. So I thought I'd move to New York.
— Ryan Gosling
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Somebody told me when Abe Lincoln was a young man, studying by firelight, he said, "I will work hard. I will prepare myself. And my…
— Deacon Jones
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I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.
— Marlo Thomas
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The old lady told me that all the girls in the village of Annezin prayed every night for the War to end, and for the…
— Robert Graves
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I've asked about you and they told me things but my mind didn't change and I still feel the same.
— Drake
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James Blish told me I had the worst case of "said bookism" (that is, using every word except said to indicate dialogue). He told me…
— Anne McCaffrey
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I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to.
— Fay Weldon
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