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I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment.

You may be right that people say: 'You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy had great rhetoric, sounded good, looked good, but has turned out to be an utter disaster. I want someone where I have confidence and credibility that they're up to the job and that I can trust what they tell me.'

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Yes, in all my research, the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion.

What is a friend? I will tell you... it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

I must not say what I truly think, or you will tell me I flatter you-but I can only speak what I feel-and very often I cannot even do that when the feeling is very deep.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

I'd love to learn to cook. I think the ladies like a guy who can cook. Also, there are lots of available ladies at cooking classes. Can you tell I'm single?

You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.

When he was a little kid, he was a fat, spoiled kid. I can tell the type.

When I talk to young girls about clothes, I tell them to show a lot of brains.

I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.

I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

They tried to discredit me. I used to tell them, There's many wonderful people out there who can't have children, who would want to have these children.

Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.

So often corporate America, business America, are the worst communicators, because all they understand are facts, and they cannot tell a story. They know how to explain their quarterly results, but they don't know how to explain what they mean.

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

It's probably a bit of a power trip when you befriend somebody enough that they trust you to tell you things.

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

I try to tell a story musically in a song.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it.

My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the stone age.

Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

I will not let anyone tell me we must spend more money. This crisis did not come about because we issued too little money but because we created economic growth with too much money and it was not sustainable growth.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Let me tell you the polls that count, and those are the polls a couple of weeks before the election. That's when the pollsters worry about holding onto their credibility. Those are the polls that everybody remembers.

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.