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Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do.

In case of emergency, do whatever your best friends tell you to do!

I never thought I was pretty enough. I was kind of tall and lanky. I don't mind it now, but back in the day I hated it. I would tell myself that what I think is ugly at 17 is actually what's going to be pretty about me later.

So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.

Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.

I can't tell you how much we laughed on the set to have Alec Guinness in a scene with a big, furry dog that's flying a space ship.

I always tell people that our sports aren't that dangerous.

If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit.

Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.

You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn't take a million years of screen time.

Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.

We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

I cannot tell a joke. But I can do a situation, that it becomes a joke.

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.

I want to tell stories about Europe - I feel profoundly European, I don't feel like an American.

You don't need people to tell you how beautiful you are on there.

Usually people like to categorise artists. With my films, I categorise people: if I know which one of my movies you like, I can tell which kind of a person you are.

I had some wonderful dreaming meetings. I can't tell you specifically what they've been in the recent months. In the past they've been verbal kinds of messages that he needed to give me. Now they're more dreams of his presence.

I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend, in which they became serial killers and burglars. She told her mother, who then told mine.

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first.

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

What again I tell my people is that no matter how much you know, it's never enough. You will always discover, after the fact, that you've missed something.

I tell girls, 'If you're tall and feel too tall, the answer is to be taller.'

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.