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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'd rather tell you how I really feel.

But I like to listen to demos. I like to hear the finished product. It's like listening to a song - I mean, a story. If you're going to sit here and tell me a story, I just like to listen. I don't want to make them up.

This means keeping many trails open at once, inevitably requiring a fairly 'parallel' plot. This plot should be discovered rather than announced, so show, don't tell.

As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.

I would rather not tell you here things which every German has at heart.

In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

I've learned lately that no one is going to hand me a permission slip and tell me to take time out for me.

Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to end the debacle of putting the world's greatest care system in the hands of federal bureaucrats and putting those bureaucrats between an American citizen and her doctor.

I'm not trying to pull the rug out from under anybody, but the music really does tell you where to go.

Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know.

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you.

Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.

Most politicians, when they meet with a guy like me, or a guy like Carville, tell you about how they can win.

If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.

I tell kids that people will let them down and people will hurt them. But Jesus Christ will never let them down and never hurt them.

You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

I always tell people that to be the funny person in a Steve Martin movie is like getting a call that Keith Moon wants you to play drums on his record. He should be playing drums on his record.

So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth.

I just feel - specifically about that holiday - why is it just one day that you have to tell the person that you love how much you love them? I think that is a little silly. I am much more the girl that likes the spontaneous.

The biggest thrill you can have is to tell people one of your songs, and have them be able to hum it.

If you are killing a chicken and cooking a chicken, it has to taste like chicken. Veal has to taste like veal. You have to be able to identify what you're eating. One of my worst experiences is when I can't tell what I'm eating. It is a waste.

I think it helps a lot when they tell people that Teri Hatcher likes you. If you're Teri Hatcher's boyfriend, suddenly you're hunky I guess. I've spent 40 years being average and now I'm Teri hatcher's boyfriend and here we are. I've been really fortunate.

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.