For years, Greg Duval piled on pounds while telling himself "I just needed to go for a run" to take off extra weight, he says.
Then he'll go home and nod with satisfaction at his own little armory, telling himself that when the time comes for him to become the hero of his own action movie, he'll be ready.
Mr Blair said that he had tried to picture himself telling Parliament that he was giving up Britain's nuclear deterrent.
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Abdo represented himself after telling a judge he was not communicating well with his lawyer.
When I arranged my Paris swap, I had to trust that Olivier was telling the truth about himself and his apartment.
In the introduction, the book acknowledges that Monolulu regularly contradicted himself when telling stories about his past, but some facts about his life seem to be consistent.
Historically, Ryan has loved telling everyone how much he loves himself, his coaching abilities and his family's success.
The father himself called 911, telling them that his daughter's alleged abuser was lying, beaten, on the ground.
Paulson, who is suffering collateral image damage from the charges against Goldman, though not a party to the case himself, is out telling investors the same thing.
Somewhere in the back of my mind I imagined him living for another 20 years, telling his stories, writing, and endearing himself to new generations of readers and fans.
Your aging parent repeats himself or herself in speaking to you, telling you the same thing or asking the same thing over and over in a single conversation.
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Cipriani needs to sort himself out and his advisers and medical support should be telling him to chill out, sort the ankle out once and for all and start training to get a head start on his rivals.
Mr Grieve refused to say whether or not he thought Mr Quick should continue in charge of the leaks inquiry, telling the BBC Mr Quick should make the "professional judgement" himself about whether he still had the "necessary objectivity" to continue.
Time and again on the stump, he has resorted to telling Congress to act, never meeting with them and striking a compromise himself.
Vicky Gunderson, whose son killed himself in solitary, is asking people to sign an online petition telling the U.S. attorney general to ban solitary confinement for inmates 17 and younger.
He was telling BB the air-con in the boys' room was broken and he just couldn't stop himself.
" Mr. O'Donnell couldn't resist firing off a zinger himself: "I just hope the jokes he tells are better than the ones he was telling on 'The Tonight Show.
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For a start, as befits a fine novelist himself, Mr Thomas offers a more rounded portrayal of Solzhenitsyn the man and a more measured and telling assessment of Solzhenitsyn the artist.
Mr Jassem, who is also an opposition activist, was himself accused by the Kuwaiti foreign ministry of "unacceptable interference" after he wrote a blog on Tuesday telling Saudi Arabia and the UAE to stay out of his country's affairs.
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