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Your body will tell you what it needs.

I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal.

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.

Funny enough, if you are looking at people these days who are putting Botox in their face and getting all sorts of plastic surgery, we look at them and go, I can tell you've had Botox. I can tell you've had plastic surgery. You look really strange to me. But no one's saying anything. We're just accepting the fact that they're strange-looking.

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

Over the years I've had people tell me that they come to my show to escape.

There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.

I can tell you this, if it wasn't for my book royalties, I'd be in debt.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories.

I keep getting these people at my shows who only know me from television. I can always tell when they're, like, emotionally flinching when I start doing my jokes.

To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time.

That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you, that's a huge advantage over the other candidates.

I used to have friends come on tour and work as my drum tech, but they get bummed out when I have to tell them what to do. This time I'm just going to fly them out and let them hang. It's all good.

I wouldn't tell you anything about anybody I cared about because it becomes entertainment for other people, and it sort of just cheapens everything in your life. I would never tell you if I was dating anybody.

I don't operate on smokers. I tell cigarette smokers that I can operate on you, I get paid the same. And you might even do well. But it's the wrong thing to do. So I refuse to operate on you until you stop smoking.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?

He does all research now, but he put me on some medication, Zoloft, and, I tell you what, a lot of people have had pros and cons about it, but it was my wonder drug.

We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.

If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

I am like a kid. I tell my family and friends I'm like a kid.

I think Poe had a mission to tell us what it's all about. To answer some of the great questions of life.

I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I can love with all my heart - and promise she will be the only one I will ever have until the day I die. That's a lie.

I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

I'm a joke comic. I tell jokes. I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes.

I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell.

I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's like going to somebody else's Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you're there and you're not quite sure what you're supposed to be doing.