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Cautionary tales were fantastic in the '70s. -- Alfonso Cuaron
Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs. -- Tom Waits
After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales. -- Lisa Jakub
Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up. -- Kate Forsyth
Charles Wang, owner of the New York Islanders, serves as something of a cautionary tale in terms of how heavy owner involvement can sink a franchise. -- Don Yaeger
It's a difficult undertaking. I've been married for four years and I see this movie as a cautionary tale about people who've gone deeply out of communication. -- Mark Ruffalo
I just want to make stories. They don't have to have a moral or a reason. There might be some mild cautionary notes, but they're not moral. They don't impart any Judeo-Christian ethic of any kind. -- Neko Case
Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia. -- Anthony Bourdain
While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the country. You can call it save the world fiction, but it clearly doesn't save anything. -- Octavia Butler
Obama prefers to look forward, not back, as he has stated. So at least during his tenure, there will be no reliable record compiled as a cautionary tale for lawmakers and presidents in future times of crisis. This is the historical Obama. -- David K. Shipler
It's a funny thing because you look at the careers of other filmmakers, and you see them sort of slow down, and you realize, maybe this becomes harder to do as you get older. That's sort of a cautionary thing. I hope it doesn't happen to me. -- Joel Coen
The Miguel Syjuco character is not me. I wanted him to represent my own fears and frustrations and guilt, my own worst tendencies and my optimistic expectations. He's a cautionary tale for me. But he's also an examination of the darkest things that haunt me as a person. -- Miguel Syjuco
I'm not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are really the same story when you get to the heart of it. They are often cultural cautionary tales about how we should behave and how we should live. -- Robert Jordan
If you wish to view this as a cautionary tale, be my guest. -- Philip Plait
Every life can be learned from, as either a flame of hope or a cautionary flare. -- Richard Paul Evans
I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you. -- Jodi Picoult
From the time we're born, our brothers and sisters are our collaborators and coconspirators, our role models and our cautionary tales, -- Jeffrey Kluger
Fear was given to man as a cautionary device to spare him pain; it is not mean to be cultivated and abused. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
This excerpt includes both a cautionary tale of being caught en flagrante and a stirring defense of getting fucked.Redeeming social value, indeed. -- Simon Sheppard
Have you ever been tempted to start your own business- First read this cautionary tale, especially if you think your ideas come from God. -- Phil Vischer
People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary tales or polemics of any kind. -- Renata Adler
The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once a cautionary hint of the finger and a flash of the eye. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

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