#told

From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward. ↗

— John Pople

#business #continue #early #early age #education

I told my staff that I'm so boring that I didn't even know I was boring. ↗

— Rob Portman

#even #i #know #staff #told

I have jokes I've told before and will tell again, but my favorite part of the night is talking to the crowd. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#before #crowd #favorite #i #jokes

To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#celebrate #demeaning #dependent #grow #grow up

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about 'Wind in the Willows' and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought - you know about 'The Wind in the Willows.' ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#books #done #educate #ever #everything

No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had. ↗

— Charley Pride

#blacks #ever #had #i #kind

In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#britain #circumstances #done #early #now

So I went to George and told him I had the opportunity to become the figurehead of a government safety campaign, and he agreed to give me the week off and reschedule shooting! ↗

— David Prowse

#become #campaign #figurehead #george #give

Someone called all the newspapers in New York and told them I'd died. I've been told by almost everyone it was an ex-wife - I've had a few so it's hard to pinpoint which one - but who knows for sure? ↗

— Richard Pryor

#been #called #died #everyone #ex-wife

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction! ↗

— Philip Pullman

#basic #british #education #english #entire