#told

To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally. ↗

— David Simon

#flattering #gratifying #personally #told #very

My family never told me like you have to be one thing. What do you want to be when you grow up? They think it's the most ridiculous question. You can be many, many things. ↗

— Hannah Simone

#grow #grow up #like #many #me

During the 2000 election, the current administration told our military, help is on the way. That is clearly not the case. The administration has failed to request the funds needed for the defense of this Nation. We must give the Army what it needs. ↗

— Ike Skelton

#army #case #clearly #current #current administration

We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories. ↗

— John Sladek

#anyway #either #had #hall #hang

I would love to make some kind of film about the witches and the Inquisitions. That would be really fun because I don't think their stories have been told enough. ↗

— Amy Smart

#because #been #enough #film #fun

We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts. ↗

— Tavis Smiley

#country #facts #give #i #ideological

I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever. ↗

— Ed Smith

#experienced #grandparents #growing #growing up #had

I think almost every political leader is always told that the next speech they make is the most crucial one. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#always #crucial #every #i #i think

I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad. ↗

— Jimmy Smith

#davis #fifteen #got #heard #him

My boys told me they'd rather play than practice. ↗

— Jimmy Smith

#play #practice #rather #than #told