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• I remember Mick Jagger asking me 'hey, how do you guys feel about us coming over here and taking all the play from you guys?' I said 'Well, in a way, you have eliminated all my competition.

  Bobby Vinton

  Play, Guy, Competition

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• Ever since I'm done with Zim everyone thinks that I'm going to go back to comics. I've been flooded with emails asking me if I'm working on the new Johnny over and over again.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Thinking, Email, Done

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• I don't give advice. 90% of the time nobody takes it anyway. I will give encouragement and if asked a question as to how, or why I did certain things and if I think this will help whomever is asking the question I will do this.

  Dionne Warwick

  Encouragement, Thinking, Giving

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• I am not asking for government censorship or any other kind of censorship. I am asking whether a kind of censorship already exists when the news that forty million Americans receive each night is determined by a handful of men responsible only to their corporate employers and filtered through a handful of commentators who admit to their own set of biases.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Night, Men, News

  John R. Coyne, Spiro T. Agnew (1972). “The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment”, New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House

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• You have to make changes before people are clamoring for changes. If people are asking for changes, it's too late.

  David Shore

  People, Too Late, Making Changes

  Source: collider.com

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• Retirement is not a dirty word, I am just enjoying what I am doing. If they want me to retire, then stop asking me. Ask and I will say yes unless it is something I really don't like.

  Betty White

  Retirement, Dirty, Want

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• It's the most annoying question and they just can't help asking you. You'll be asked it at family gatherings, weddings, and on first dates. And you'll ask yourself far too often. It's the question that has no good answer. It's the question that when people stop asking it, you'll feel even worse. - WHY ARE YOU SINGLE?

  Liz Tuccillo

  People, Gathering, Answers

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• We possess books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and observations, asking us to make them part of ourselves.

  David L. Ulin

  Book, Waiting, Language

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• The world needs to listen to the cry of the earth, which is asking for help. If you carry on killing people and you continue to destroy nature and you take out all the oil, the minerals and the wood, our planet will become ill and we’ll all die.

  Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

  Asking For Help, Oil, People

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• I think people can benefit tremendously from really asking why they're doing certain things.

  Elizabeth Holmes

  Thinking, Asking Why, People

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• Asking a girl if she's alright is like jaywalking across a black ice-covered 4 lane street: you think you can make it safely to the other side, but you're more likely to slip and fall to a most certain death.

  David Bowick

  Girl, Fall, Thinking

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• You will die and it will all be over. You will die and find out everything or cease asking.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Over You, Dies, Cease

  Leo Tolstoy (2007). “War and Peace”, p.272, Penguin

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• We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Identity, Dare, Asks

  "Discourse on Inequality". Book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1754.

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• People are always asking for the latest developments in the unification of this theory with that theory, and they don't give us a chance to tell them anything about what we know pretty well. They always want to know the things we don't know.

  Richard P. Feynman

  People, Giving, Development

  Richard P. Feynman (2014). “QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter”, p.3, Princeton University Press

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• Historicism and cultural relativism actually are a means to avoid testing our own prejudices and asking, for example, whether men are really equal or whether that opinion is merely a democratic prejudice.

  Allan Bloom

  Mean, Men, Example

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• It's high time to rescue "intelligent design" from the politics of religion. There are too many riddles not yet answered by either biology or the Bible, and by asking them honestly, without foregone conclusions, science could take a huge leap forward.

  Deepak Chopra

  Intelligent, Design, Biology

  "Intelligent Design Without the Bible". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2005.

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• In those years, when I came to the States, people were always asking me why I didn't sing anymore. I'd tell them, 'I sing all around the world-Asia, Africa, Europe-but if you don't sing in the US, then you haven't really made it.' That's why I'll always be grateful to Paul Simon. He allowed me to bring my music back to my friends in this country.

  Miriam Makeba

  Country, Grateful, Years

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• I'm asking Congress to pass my Zero Down Payment Initiative. We should remove the 3 percent down payment rule for first time home buyers with FHA-insured mortgages.

  George W. Bush

  Zero, Home, Firsts

  President's Remarks to the National Association of Home Builders, Columbus, Ohio, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. October 02, 2004.

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• What worse can happen to a man than to have been born? It's like asking a man who is drowning whether he is not afraid of getting wet.

  Leonid Andreyev

  Men, Drowning, Born

  Leonid Andreyev (1917). “Savva [and]: The life of man; two plays”

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• I've been around the government system and believe me it's built to spend. You've got to change the system, otherwise it's like asking a cultivator to do what a combine does, it just doesn't fit, it won't get it done. You've got to change the system.

  Sam Brownback

  Believe, Government, Doe

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• Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds; and his friends asking him if any accident had befallen him, he returns this answer: "Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them, we have not yet conquered one?

  Plutarch

  Thinking, Numbers, Answers

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.140

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• You know, we're often ashamed of asking for so much help because it seems selfish or petty or narcissistic, but I think, if there's a God -- and I believe there is -- that God is there to help. That's what God's job is.

  Anne Lamott

  Jobs, Selfish, Believe

  "Anne Lamott Distills Prayer Into 'Help, Thanks, Wow'". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. November 19, 2012.

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• Wikipedia is first and foremost an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language. Asking whether the community comes before or after this goal is really asking the wrong question: the entire purpose of the community is precisely this goal.

  Jimmy Wales

  Goal, Effort, Community

  "Wikipedia is an encyclopedia". Wikipedia-l mailing list, March 08, 2005.

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• The seeker asking, Where is God? Is really God saying, Where indeed is the seeker!

  Meher Baba

  Seekers

  "The Everything and the Nothing". Book by Meher Baba, 1963.

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• Asking a sociologist to solve a problem is like prescribing an enema for diarrhea.

  Saul Alinsky

  Problem, Diarrhea, Solve

  "Saul Alinsky: A candid conversation with the feisty radical organizer". Interview with Eric Norden, Playboy, 19 (3), March 1972.

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