#told

My mother as a young girl went out with a young SS officer and she didn't really know what was going on - she just liked the uniform. When he told her about the things that he did, she was disgusted and broke up with him. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#broke #did #disgusted #girl #going

You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience with the Third Reich, when stories and images were used to tell lies. After the war, literature was careful not to do the same, which is why writers began to reflect on the stories they told and to make readers part of their texts. I do the same. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#art #bad #began #careful #experience

I wasn't a smart kid in terms of numbers, but, I told them, 'I'm a thoughtful, responsible guy.' ↗

— Richard Hanna

#i #kid #numbers #responsible #smart

I was told my whole life, you're fat, you're ugly, you're never going to amount to be anything. ↗

— Tonya Harding

#anything #fat #going #i #life

A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#firm #follow #follows #guiding #having

For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#america #because #best #faults #happiness

As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#cost #failed #fairness #god #led

I remember seeing the song in some diners on the selection gadget that plays records at the table while you were eating. We were never told if the songs ever got on any charts. ↗

— Phil Harris

#charts #eating #ever #gadget #got

When the ambassadors of other foreign countries come to Japan to make treaties, they can be told that such and such a treaty has been made with the ambassador of the United States, and they will rest satisfied with this. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#been #come #countries #foreign #foreign countries

I want to be in 'Glee,' but I'm told I'm not famous enough to be a cameo yet. ↗

— Carey Mulligan

#enough #famous #glee #i #told