- Nov 07, 2020
Tell Quotes
What people choose to tell, and why it matters.
One of these tell quotes is refreshingly candid, an athlete accepting a limited role rather than resenting it, while an actor frames the whole point of the craft as telling stories that actually matter. For more on honesty and voice, see Know quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I arrived at Benfica I'd been playing like a No. 10 in the team, but the first thing the coach did was tell me: 'You are going to be a defensive midfielder here.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love speed. I love racing cars, whether it's on the streets or wherever. Don't tell the St. Louis police, though.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to tell people my father was a plumber, because that would mean we had a normal life.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science, whereas Darwin didn't really overturn a science paradigm.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll tell you what I would do in a shot if I could. I would sing in the barbershop quartet in The Music Man.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A novel wouldn't be a book if there weren't some flights of fancy on the part of the author, stopping time to examine things, or to tell a joke.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bestseller charts, a sure indicator of public taste, tell us with relentless frequency that Marian Keyes or Jeffrey Archer is a better author, by some dizzying six-figure sum, both in numbers of copies and money, than, say, J. M. Coetzee or Patrick White. Are they right?
- Nov 07, 2020
With most specials, even the best comedians will tell you they could have cut 15 or 20 minutes out of it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.
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- Nov 07, 2020
At restaurants, I try to tell them not to bring the bread basket, but what's the point of going out to eat if I can't enjoy it?
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always tell people this: to be a savvy politician or a good head of state and to be charitable are not mutually exclusive things.
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- Nov 07, 2020