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As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.

One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

'Detroit 1-8-7' - the numbers are police slang for murder - is filmed in that blue-collar Michigan city, providing a flavor of authenticity. Detroit offers a unique visual landscape that tells the story of the city and what it's been through.

It was described as Sex and the Suburbs. It's so not that. Because on Sex and the City, those women told each other everything; on our show, it's much more like the real suburbs - nobody tells anybody anything. Everything's a secret.

Everyone tells me that I have a very sweet face! I'd like to change that. I wish I had a more flexible face!

Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest thing possible. Because there's always somebody behind you who really wants to do what you're doing. And they're going to work harder than you if you're not working hard.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.

If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.

We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.

I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.

I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.

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

People come into public life for different reasons. None of us are ego-challenged, I think, or we probably wouldn't be doing what we're doing, so if anyone tells you that they don't like the sound of the applause and the ego gratification, I don't think they're being straight with you.

I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

I only do what my gut tells me to. I think it's smart to listen to other people's advice, but at the end of the day, you're the only one who can tell you what's right for you.

When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.

There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.

Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this.

And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut.

It's silly that anyone in this world tells you that there are only certain people that can marry you.

No one tells me what they think because they're either intimidated by me, or they don't want to upset me.

Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.

I'm a survivor, at least that's what everyone tells me.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

We decided that how we react to and treat those fellow mortals, wild and domestic, tells us more about ourselves than, perhaps, some of us want to know.

The message of the movie is to accept who you are and not to succumb to the pressure of what the media tells you is beautiful and what you should be looking like.

I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it.

My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.