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The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.

If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.

You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell.

There's a great argument about how many men he actually killed. People would tell stories and then as we all know as stories get told over and over again, they get embellished, facts get changed, elaborated upon, exaggerated.

I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was doing between 1960 and 1974.

If anyone ever asked me what I had to complain about it would not have taken long to tell them. Maybe I was just easily pleased.

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

But I'll tell you what, there was a lot of farmland between Falls Church and Washington.

Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.

My last race was at Le Mans in 2000, my first race was in 1959, so I dodged a lot of bullets along the way, I can tell you that.

I tell my friends married life is boring, but that's just a fun thing to say to make single people feel better.

If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.

I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.

You could tell that America was gearing up for war.

A lot of lawyers are set to tell me that it's not my fault I like to eat.

The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.

I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it.

When I was a kid, being outside was the norm. Rain or shine, our parents would tell us to get out of the house.

But I can tell that once, and if, and when this issue gets to be, under real terms, investigated, you will be seeing certain people that we know from this country standing trial; and they will be prosecuted criminally.

When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed.

I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too.

In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen!

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

I think it's inconsistent to tell the American people that you oppose the war and, yet, you continue to vote to fund the war. Because every time you vote to fund the war, you're reauthorizing the war all over again.

But on the other hand, in the midst of the chaos, you find normal people. You find people who are willing to risk their lives to tell you what they saw, even though they have no dog in the fight.

Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ.

I think over the course of 14 films, I'm returning to a place that I know to tell a story... the same way Spielberg returned to fantasy, Lucas returned to the 'Star Wars' saga, or John Ford returned to the western.

A friend of mine, a Hispanic entrepreneur asked me a question sometime ago, he said, 'When is the last time you saw a Hispanic panhandler?' I think it's a great question. I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging.

When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.'