We all mythologize to some degree ourselves and probably embellish. I think some of that is the desire to tell stories.
I don't need an Emmy to tell me to go to work. I've been working.
Great brands and great businesses have to be great storytellers, too. We have to tell stories - emotive, compelling stories - and even more so because we're nonfiction.
What we can do is provide the tools, through our educational system, for people to be able to tell sense from nonsense. These tools include the scientific method, skeptical questioning, empirical evidence, verifying sources, etc.
In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.
When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies.
People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?
There are over 400 parks in all 50 states that represent our country and that are enriched with stories that tell about how our country became what it is today. There is a lot of history frozen in these places.
When I turn 55, I'm going to be on Medicare. I can call up and tell them I don't want to be on Medicare, but otherwise, I'll be on Medicare. So they use this kind of automatic enrollment. We give states the option of automatically enrolling those who are eligible.
I can now tell from the envelope whether or not it is a good script.
Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.
Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.
If you can even manage to tell exactly what a song is about, all you do is put that song in a box forever, and it loses its evocative power.
My outlook was, 'You're not my moms; you can't tell me what to do.' I got expelled from about 20 schools.
I had to tell about my colonic, which expresses the fact why I'm so neat today as opposed to a few years ago. I never knew that the weight made that much difference.
Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales.
We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show.
I'll tell you something about Glenn McGrath - he was a much better bowler than me. This is not false modesty.