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My boys told me they'd rather play than practice.
— Jimmy Smith
All my teachers told me that a degree would mean a high paidjob. They lied. — Jennifer Gilby Roberts
If someone had told me a few months ago that this would be my life, I would have recommended they seek help for their crazy.
— Cambria Hebert
Several people have told me that one of the most meaningful events they could attend would be something at the White House with their children.
— Hillary Clinton
Somebody approached me about writing a biography on me, I told them they were too late.
— Zach Braff
When Queer Eye hit, the church told my mom they were praying for me. She said, God loves him too. And I support him 100 percent.
— Jai Rodriguez
When I went to London, they told me I spoke with a funny accent - English with a Chinese accent.
— Jean-Georges Vongerichten
Prince decided to move from Minneapolis to Toronto. Jimmy Jam told me that they were living there now.
— Rick Dees
My enemies embarrassed you. So they embarrassed me, Darrow. You told me you would win. But then you lost. And that changes everything.
— Pierce Brown
They told me I'd never probably see the front-line area.
— Jessica Lynch
At the time I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, my doctors told me that I had an incurable illness and they didn't know much about it.
— Mary Ann Mobley
That's okay," you told me. "I like them better when they're dried up. I'll keep them for years. Until our Get Rid of the Roses anniversary.
— David Levithan
Once a crowd chased me for an autograph. 'Beat it, ' I said, 'go sit on a tack!' 'We made you, ' they said. 'Like hell you did, ' I told them.
— Katharine Hepburn
I tentatively attempted to make contact with the muscles in my body. They told me to leave them the fuck alone.
— Richelle Mead
I also am not particularly risk-averse - I don't mind jumping off a cliff if I trust the people who've told me they'll catch me at the bottom.
— Jeff VanderMeer
The police stopped me when I was out in my car. They told me it was a spot check. I admitted to two pimples and a boil.
— Chic Murray
They wanted me to crawl," she told Magdalena finally. "And I'm ready to run.
— Courtney Angela Brkic
I know I'm not perfect, but I didn't think it was fair that they told me one thing and wrote down another.
— Jack Gantos
Take words and make them useful,' she told me. 'drain them of all the crappy meanings they used to mean and make them mean something useful instead.
— Scott Bradfield
A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they'll get scared.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
When I was young, I thought I was a bird at one time. Then they told me I can't fly, so I stopped flying.
— Anthony Liccione
And you know what you once told me, about how people's eyes have something honest about them when they're watching a fire.
— Haruki Murakami
Your kindness, beauty, and simplicity remind me the stories about angels, and I was told they are just legends and myths.
— M.F. Moonzajer
No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.
— Marilyn Monroe
It wasn't until I got 'SNL' that my parents told me they were a little bit worried, like that I would have food to eat.
— Jorma Taccone
They asked me what coach I was in. I sighed and told them the truth. "I'm in a special coach, girls, heading straight for death
— Alexander Solschenizyn
I wanted to join the Army the sign said 'Be All That You Can Be', they told me it wasn't enough.
— Jay London
When they told me that by the year 2100 women would rule the world, my reply was 'Still?'
— Winston Churchill
And they told me to keep watch over a 'lady.'" I couldn't help but smirk. A lady.
I lunged and defeated her guard.
I was a war mage. — Rachel E. Carter
When people asked me what I did for a living, I told them I make pilots. They thought I was a stewardess.
— Suzanne Somers
They looked like two children, she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
— Candis Cayne
My parents always told me, 'Do what you love because that is what you will do well in.' They told me to make sure that you are happy.
— Dylan Lauren
I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off.
— George R R Martin
I knew more about Texas than the Texans and when they told me I would find summer here I smiled knowingly.
— Richard H. Davis
Some people have told me they remember the film that one of my images is derived from, but in fact I had no film in mind at all.
— Cindy Sherman
I let my eyes deceive me from the start, they told me I wanted her more than I wanted you. Guess my eyes were bigger than my heart.
— Conway Twitty
Someone told me that when they go to Vermont, they feel like they're home. I'm that way at Saks.
— Caroline Rhea
Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!
— Walter Isaacson
I always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a hard time hanging them up at home.
— Catherine Opie
Girls need to know they can break the rules. If the nuns had told me that, I could have saved twenty years.
— Gloria Steinem
My mom once told me that a good relationship isn't where the other person makes you feel better, but where they make *you* better.
— Brian K. Vaughan
If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.
— Bruce Springsteen
They told me I was everything. 'Tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.
— William Shakespeare
It is not often one chooses a demon over an angel.So they told me. But this demon was the only one who made me feel safe. — Heather Heffner
Here," an old sugar worker told me, "the people have a great love for martyrsbut only after they're dead. Before, there's nothing but complaints. — Eduardo Galeano
They told me I should be making my own records. So I figured, 'why not?
— Dee Dee Warwick
But what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find you. Girls are cool that way.
— Adriana Trigiani
I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.
— Andrew Young
People say as a woman actor your career is over at 40. But then they told me I would never work again after I was 16.
— Jodie Foster
Remember what I told you. If they hated me, they will hate you.
— Sinead O'Conner
One lawyer told me that he never drinks water or eats in front of the jury because they can't do either one.
— Jeremy Sumpter
A lot of people have told me they have mothers like my mother. I seriously doubt it.
— Hannah Gadsby
But they told me a man should be faithful, and walk when not able, and fight till the end but I'm only Human.
— Michael Jackson
When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking. I wish they had. I would've had a better time.
— Robert Redford
All sorts of people told me their stories. Then they left, never to return, as if I were no more than a bridge they were clattering across.
— Haruki Murakami
They say, "God told me", or "God replied to me". And yet most of the time they are talking to themselves.
— John Of The Cross
Somebody once told me that good friends are like Tootie Pops, if you don't bite them they won't bite you. Erin Swift
— Denise Vega
The little grey cells, my friend, the little grey cells! They told me.
— Agatha Christie
I didn't expect babies to need so many diapers. Nobody told me they needed to be changed so often.
— Shakira
You told me it was a mistake to fight the scarred warriors. They were the survivors.
— Michael Scott
This book is dedicated to all the people who told me they enjoyed Dead Until Dark. Thanks for the encouragement.
— Charlaine Harris
If you let words go buzzing out of your mouth like bees, she always told me, they will come back and sting you.
— Susan Fletcher
He said I was trapped. He had trapped me. I told him to carefully consider what trapped animals do when they do not wish to be trapped.
— J.M. McDermott
Everything they told me as a kid has already been disproved by the same type of "experts" who made them up in the first place.
— John Lennon
If I told my parents that I was going to do that [ to be really counsel to a Prime Minister] when I was kid, they would probably put me in therapy.
— Warren Mundine
A wise man once told me that the place where they make law is the place where they're the least likely to obey it,
— Larry Correia
Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.
— Doris Lessing
She told me that if magic gives people what they want, then not using magic can give them what they need.
— Terry Pratchett
Dale Earnhardt told me it doesn't matter if fans boo or cheer, as long as they're making noise.
— Kurt Busch
When I was in school the teachers told me practice makes perfect; then they told me nobody's perfect so I stopped practicing.
— Steven Wright
Size and strength didn't intimidate Herman. As he told me later, no matter how big they grow, balls and eyes stay soft and a tire tool has no friends.
— Joe R. Lansdale
