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I always tell people I'm running against two Democrats, one that admits it and one that does not.

And I can't tell you how many women from a certain age group - they would be in their 30s now, 20s and 30s - tell me about how I was their role model when they were young girls.

The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. We are guardian of rights, and we have to tell people things they often do not like to hear.

There are people who tell you to shut up because you're just a celebrity, but pundits, talking heads, they're every bit the celebrity and a lot of them aren't any more qualified than the average man on the street.

I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.

The Oakland clubhouse is a wonderful place. A lot of these guys feel like rejects. They were rejects and they feel - they can tell you how baseball screwed up.

There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.

I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything.

Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.

I would like a food/lifestyle show. We're not sure what that is yet. I want to be able to share what I do and how I raise my family. I feel like I have a story to tell. I enjoy talking and listening, sharing ideas and sharing advice.

But since you're asking me, I'll tell you my opinion: all cornbread is authentic, as long as it's good, hot, and made with love and fresh ingredients.

I want to tell people how to live spiritually. After you've bought all your houses and your clothes, you want something bigger.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they don't necessarily do any harm. It's touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I've got my just desserts.

I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.

When people tell me I've kept them up all night, I feel like I've succeeded.

There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know. But everyone's really different. I've worked with women who I've never wanted to tell anything about myself to, and I've worked with guys who have been pouring wells of emotion. So emotional availability is not a gender-specific thing.

My style will be management by being on the street, management by walking around. Third persons won't have to tell me what's going on in our city. I'll hear it, I'll see it, I'll touch it myself.

I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.

I've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell.

I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

I tell ya, I could have got some more jobs if I'd tried, but I went to Sweden instead.

On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We'd like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts.

This is a struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party, which in too many cases has become so corporate and identified with corporate interests that you can't tell the difference between Democrats and Republicans.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

I can tell you the day The Beach Boys will no longer exist - never. We'll be on stage in wheelchairs.

As his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success. He built it.

I'm not into older guys. To tell you the truth, Richard Gere is not the sexiest man alive, in my book.

Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they're the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be.

I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.