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Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to - to balance the family ticket.

I want to tell stories powerful people don't want you to tell. It's not worth getting out of bed otherwise.

I support allowing homosexuals to serve openly in our military and eliminating the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy.

At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.

Probably what my comment meant was that I don't care about the circumstances if I can tell the truth.

A lot of those comics can't hold down relationships and they've got no other life apart from performing. They sleep in their Jags and a lot of them can't even talk. All they can do is tell gags.

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.

Yes, indeed, in fact I would tell you that we go out of our way to be true to the original feeling and sort of sonic and musical pallet that we painted with back then.

If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Whether you like it or not, the last few years I'd be the first one to tell you I haven't been the Pedro Martinez that I'm used to being.

I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.

I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story.

I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.

A duck's nest was found today near the trail on the dry open prairie with as far as could be seen no water or marsh near. The bird flew off but could not tell what species. The eggs nine originally.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

I couldn't tell if any frames were removed. Seen as a whole it shows that I have seen. Seeing you have 18 frames a second you can take out one or two and I couldn't tell.

My brother says that I was writing songs about fate while he was off playing soccer. Now I tell him he's 33 and being a professional while I'm playing soccer with my friends. Ha!

If I fancy a girl, I'll tell her. I'll say: 'You're fit.'

I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them?

I think it's because it's so different and it takes risks. Plus, it's really smart humor. It gives the audience credit in terms of not needing to tell them when to laugh. I love that about the show. There's no laugh track.

You know, I think what the American people want more than anything else right now is someone who's just going to look them in the eye and tell them the truth, even some truths that they don't like. And - but they have to believe the person's speaking from their heart and are authentic.

Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.

This is my truth, tell me yours.