#told

Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that. ↗

— Miriam Makeba

#africa #anything #apartheid #becomes #come

I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that. ↗

— John Malkovich

#always #ball player #baseball #father #football

We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life. ↗

— Howie Mandel

#basically #childhood #children #down #funny

How old am I? I'm as old as my mother told me. How's that? ↗

— Charles Manson

#how #i #me #mother #old

My dad told us up front, 'Guys, if you want to play sports, go ahead, but it's your decision.' ↗

— Peyton Manning

#dad #decision #front #go #guys

A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#easier #lot #make #much #own

I was the deputy Chairman of the Democratic Union of the Pacific, and we started at 8 I think and I was called to the telephone and to be told there's a coup, the government has been overthrown - it was round about 9, 10 when the Parliament sat they had done then. ↗

— Kamisese Mara

#been #called #chairman #coup #democratic

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#always #anything #back #been #cannot

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart? ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#consciousness #head #heart #hearts #home

They told me that they are starting a classic label, and wanted me to be the first artist. So I signed, and am producing myself, and writing my own music, but I'm their first artist on their classic label. And I have creative control. ↗

— Teena Marie

#artist #be the first #classic #control #creative