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The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'

Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.

Tell me, what do they do for us in Bulgaria? Do they fix the prices? Or is there some kind of a free market?

And because we are, somehow, better than they, we get to go to heaven and they don't. Christians will tell you outright that they believe that.

Newspapers do a good job telling me what happened yesterday, but they'd be a lot more impressive if they could tell me what's going to happen tomorrow.

One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.

I'm one of the few people in this world who can do anything I choose. I can't tell you how good I'm feeling.

I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.

Somebody ought to tell him his ambition is showing.

As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.

If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.

But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.

I tell myself time heals. It really does.

You live with the fear people might find out. Then you actually have the courage to tell people and they go, I don't think you are gay. It's enough to drive you crazy.

I don't see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I'm skinny, as if that's supposed to make me happy.

Why don't you bring your face up here and let me punch it? Then you can tell me (if I'm stronger).

Orlando's a part of me. The next guy's a part of me. And the next guy's a part of me. That's all I'm trying to do, is tell cool stories that people can relate to.

You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.

The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius.

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.

You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there's a big photo opportunity for a really good cause.

Friends are very understanding when you tell them in April that you can see them next September, but there is a limit to how long you can go on like that.

I would love to tell you I've found the secret to eternal youth. I go to the gym and avoid too many chips. I love to eat, hate to work out, but if you can't count all your ribs from a distance you're considered obese.

I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss.

I will do almost anything for the sake of a joke or for the sake of someone's real belief in something to help tell a story. I will not do something shocking for the sake of being nasty. If it's not hurting anyone's feelings, I'm in on the joke.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.