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I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.

We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated.

Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They'll tell you.

People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.

I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

I'll play it and tell you what it is later.

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

I've always wondered, what am I going to do that's important with these stupid jokes that I tell.

You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad.

You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

When they tell me one of my old movies is on TV, I don't look at it.

What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

I was the first in my peer group to get pregnant. All I craved was reassurance. I needed someone to tell me that all the seemingly random symptoms I had - weird things, such as excess saliva - were normal. And I was worried because I wasn't getting any morning sickness.

I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in.

I can tell you one of the most surprising ingredients I've ever found. Perhaps five years ago on a beach I saw this herb that looked exactly like chives. I put it in my mouth and started chewing and, surprise, it tasted exactly like coriander.

On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.

The men are walking. They are fifty feet apart, for dispersal. Their walk is slow, for they are dead weary, as you can tell even when looking at them from behind. Every line and sag of their bodies speaks their inhuman exhaustion.

You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.

It has been rumored that we have fired scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait.

I've never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television, I always did what I wanted to do, and if I couldn't, I didn't do it. It was a freedom that, these days, young directors starting out don't have.

I've worked for 55 years. I'm going to take a little time off, to tell you the truth. It's just that now in the last couple of weeks, Gelman is pouring it on. 'Farewell to Regis!' It's getting embarrassing.

I don't operate on smokers. I tell cigarette smokers that I can operate on you, I get paid the same. And you might even do well. But it's the wrong thing to do. So I refuse to operate on you until you stop smoking.

I didn't think there was life after modelling, believe me. It's a hit to the ego when you are not the diva on the set any more. But I think what keeps me going are challenges. I love when people tell me I can't do something.

My parents started a business out of the living room of our home and, 30-plus years later, it was a multimillion dollar company. So, President Obama, with all due respect, don't tell me that my parents didn't build their business.

You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other; our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our enemies. That is to help each other and not hurt each other.