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Because I knew I wasn't stupid, and I knew I wasn't dumb....

Because I knew I wasn't stupid, and I knew I wasn't dumb. My mother told me that. Everybody told me I wasn't stupid or dumb.

Quote by Whoopi Goldberg about mother

Being told that someone doesn't want to date you because you're such a good friend, is like being told that you didn't get the job because you're overqualified.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about love, being, good, good luck

What cannot be told must be kept in silence.

What cannot be told must be kept in silence.

Quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein about truth, silence

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies...

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Quote by William Blake about truth, bad luck, bad

When I told the people of Northen Ireland that I was atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said: Yes, but it is the God of the Catholicsor the God of Protestants in whom you don't belive.

Quote by Quentin Crisp about god, woman, people

Well, I think that the image is a part of me. I wear the baggy pants, the hats, the whole nine. And you know, I may add a little for the excitement and the intrigue in the videos, but my family has told me that little air of mystery that surrounds...

Quote by Aaliyah about truth, air, family, real estate

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

Quote by Harold Bloom about end, solitude, day, society, heart, being

I remember saying to the chairman after serving the first year, ''Why are we doing this? Why don't the Hawaiians have control? '' ''Well, we have no mechanism to do it, '' I was told.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie

An audience would come having been fed something about how to react, and where you'd be getting tons of laughs at the preview, the next night there'd be dead silence because they'd been told that the piece isn't funny.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about silence, night

You know I think many writers are dangerous to the...

You know I think many writers are dangerous to the establishment. I mean, they go against all the rules that you're told writing.

Quote by Kathy Acker about writers, rules, writing

You know, I've been told that by some of the writers in...

You know, I've been told that by some of the writers in the generation above me: You'll be able to write when you've found a voice.

Quote by Kathy Acker about writers, voice

I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No 1. I'm a new...

I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen.

Quote by Erykah Badu about rules, artists

Well, I have an agent who saw my videos and thought that I'd be good in movies. She's often sent scripts, and I told her the kinds of roles that I liked.

Quote by Erykah Badu about thinking, good, good luck

Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my pursuit of a career in the business as an artist.

Quote by Michael Bolton about career, home, affair, artists, good, good luck

A lot of people said, Who do you think you are? I told...

A lot of people said, Who do you think you are? I told them I know exactly who I am and I'll tell you exactly where I'm going.

Quote by Michael Caine about nation, people

Mama told me we were not rich. I was devastated.

Mama told me we were not rich. I was devastated.

Quote by Taylor Caldwell about wealth

I basically put myself into directors' hands and let them...

I basically put myself into directors' hands and let them tell me what to do, and the more they told me what to do, the more I liked it.

Quote by Julie Christie

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Quote by Charles Dickens about love

It is very difficult for girls. They're told to look one...

It is very difficult for girls. They're told to look one way, but to act another way.

Quote by Glenn Close

In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly the same message is being given to the parents of tweens.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about parents, being

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