I just want to serve up the goodness and grace that's been given to me because I made a choice that lined up with my passion. And that's what I tell my kids.
This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.
I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better.
You can tell when someone likes you just because you're in a movie, because all they talk about is the movie, and all they talk about is the movie business.
Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have to depend on someone to tell you who you are.
The network wants you to make a thing that's just a stand-alone episode, so you never get any character or continuity. This is one of the ways in which television can actually be good, and even better than the movies, because it gives you a chance to tell a long story.
This is what the government is, has always been, the creator and defender of privilege; the organization of oppression and revenge. To hope that it can ever become anything else is the vainest of delusions. They tell you that Anarchy, the dream of social order without government, is a wild fancy. The wildest dream that ever entered the heart of man is the dream that mankind can ever help itself through an appeal to law, or to come to any order that will not result in slavery wherein there is any excuse for government.
When you read that our heavenly home is similar to a bride, tell me, doesn't it make you want to go home.
we become the stories we tell ourselves
Avoid people who tell you that something you want to do is not possible.
If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.
One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a. 300 hitter and a. 275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks.
Nobody has any right to tell you what you aren't capable of. If you're meant to, you're able to. There is no such thing as impossible.
I kept trying to tell people that just because I was young didn't mean I could speak for all young people.
I think what makes us human is those choices - whether to tell the truth or not.
Test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is, but they don't tell you where a student could end up.
To tell a man who has no realization that he is lost, that he may be saved by faith in Christ, means nothing to him, however true and blessed the fact is in itself.
Let the story tell itself.
I met Bush but we didn't talk at all. To tell you the truth, I was too pissed.
I couldn't tell people what I wanted to do because I was from Atlanta. You don't tell people you're gonna be a comedian in Atlanta. That means you ain't gonna do nothing.