Told Quotes
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There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay.
Zubin Mehta
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One night she told me to put out the garbage. I told her "you cooked it, you take it out".
Jack Roy
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Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.
Oscar Wilde
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To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me.
Lauryn Hill Fugees
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A hooker once told me she had a headache.
Jack Roy
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What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife.
Jack Roy
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Babies, we are told, are the latest news from heaven.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.
Barry Lyga
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.
Lao Tzu
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Genghis had once told him he should never give an order they would not obey. He should never let them see the limits of his authority.
Conn Iggulden
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I don't like to be told what to do at all. That's unfortunate because a lot of people come up with good ideas and can direct you.
Grace Slick Starship
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People who told you to "think fast" were always those who thought much more slowly than you did.
Charlie Jane Anders
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Many a truth is told in jest.
Jonathan Swift
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I'm not sure who's right, who's wrong, but it doesn't matter. Sometimes you just have to do what you're told. That's who we are!
Eric Stoltz
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The night I met him Mijail told me that, for some reason, life usually grants us what we are not looking for.
Carlo D'Este
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A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.
Ninon de L'Enclos
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The story of the Amazon is a story that has been told by Europeans, you know, by Germans, by Canadians, by Americans.
Ciro Guerra
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The value of a thought cannot be told.
Philip James Bailey
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Over in the refrigerated section hang lies told so long ago and so often that they turned into the truth and get taught in history books.
Catherynne M. Valente
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What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
Jonathan Swift
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I always told my team, "You have to believe that you are not in front of a computer, but that your canvas is a piece of paper. You have to believe this even if you have a computer in front of you."
Alex Abreu
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After all, a girl is... well, a girl. It's nice to be told you're successful at it.
Rita Hayworth
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We are to be brought through the fire, not left in it. and you know what? to anyone that ever told you that you're no good... they're no better.
Hayley Williams Paramore
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I wouldn't bet on a horse unless he came up to my house and told me to himself.
James Hubert Blake