And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.
Barack Obama
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I've said very clearly, including in a State of the Union address, that I'm against 'don't ask, don't tell' and that we're going to end this policy.
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I don't want to ever tell a stereotype joke for the sake of it. I'm going to tell the story that I feel is true.
Ronny Chieng
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If someone ever decides to tell my story, it will make for a typical masala movie.
Adnan Sami
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Be it a video game, comic book, or cheque book, the question always is, 'What story do you have to tell?'
Duncan Jones
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As MBA professors endlessly tell their students, companies do best when they stick to what they do well. There's a reason Apple doesn't make blenders. There's a reason Haagen-Dazs doesn't sell meat. And there's a reason drug companies should focus on saving and improving lives - not jeopardizing them.
Jeffrey Kluger
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Anybody that's ever been to Israel and to Palestine knows that you can't look at a person and tell if they're Israeli or Palestinian. You can assume. But I've seen Palestinians who look Swedish, and I've seen Israelis who are black.
Keith Ellison
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I tell my students that being a writer is like being a member of a medieval guild and that what we are doing is very subversive and very important.
Jayne Anne Phillips
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Our job, as actors, is not to tell the audience how interesting we are, but to entertain them with our films.
Sushant Singh Rajput
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We must tell girls their voices are important.
Malala Yousafzai
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Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.
Julian Barnes
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In private some critics have come up to me afterwards and told me they honestly enjoyed the movie. Then they'd tell me that they're still going to have to write it up negatively.
Joe Pantoliano
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I usually don't like to 'spoon feed' my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.
The Weeknd
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I tell you, being on a soap is the hardest work, and it gets so old. Get on your mark, get in the light, don't turn too far upstage - that's all it is.
Robin Wright
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I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.
Warren Spector
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Children tell the truth.
Clemantine Wamariya
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Lakers are my boys! I'm 100 percent the biggest Kobe fan on the planet. I text him after every game to tell him what's up.
Ryan Sheckler
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It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.
Dan Brown
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I think all good short stories are about what it means to tell a good story.
David Means
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There are some movie stars in Hollywood that are so scared, they also tell the reporter that they are recording them, in case there is something wrong with what they wrote about them in the papers.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
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I hate to tell you this, but I did not know what the National Book Award was when I got the call.
Katherine Dunn
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I cannot tell people who are struggling that I come first. I just cannot.
Jason Alexander
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I tell stories. I kind of stumbled on that by trying to combine Jane Austen and magic.
Susanna Clarke
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Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct 'British' accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it.
Madeleine Stowe
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