Asks Quotes - Page 5

• I can see that you [Bruce Cole] are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?

  Donald Kagan

  Different, Historian, Ought

  "On Learning from the Greeks". Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. 2005.

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• If it weren't for my breast cancer, I wouldn't be a 'Today' host. After I got better, I talked to my boss about working on the show. Six months before, I'd have been terrified to go in there and ask for what I wanted. But after what I'd been through, how could I be scared of being told no?

  Hoda Kotb

  Cancer, Boss, Six Months

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• People ask 'How do you get so eh-ish?' I don't know if it's just because so much of my family still lives in Canada and I finished studies up there.

  Stana Katic

  People, Canada, Study

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• Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology.

  Vinod Khosla

  Believe, Technology, Important

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• Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First, I don't know. Second, I never dreamed about that; I just dreamed about making movies with Tarantino. So if I can make movies with a lot of amazing directors - yes.

  Melanie Laurent

  Directors, Hollywood, Firsts

  "Inglourious Basterds Interview: Melanie Laurent". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• Governor Romney has a record of tremendous accomplishments. But he never asks for accolades. He just asks, 'How can I help?' That's the mark of a true leader: A humble focus on getting the job done.

  Reince Priebus

  Jobs, Humble, Accomplishment

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• How much golf I actually play depends on whom you ask. My wife says I'm out there every day. If you ask me, the cricket is getting in the way of the golf.

  Ricky Ponting

  Golf, Play, Wife

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone.

  Trevor Phillips

  Asking Questions, Asking, Has Beens

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• My come-out record, '10 Day,' was the thing people were supposed to hear and figure out 'he's good' or 'he's not good.' 'Acid Rap' is the comeback tape, and it asks way bigger and better questions than, 'Is he good at rapping?

  Chance the Rapper

  Rap, People, Tape

  "Chance the Rapper remembers 'talking white' and fighting black on Acid rap" by Nadeska Alexis, www.mtv.com. May 14, 2013.

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• The whole point of 'Acid Rap' was just to ask people a question: does the music business side of this dictate what type of project this is? If it's all original music and it's got this much emotion around it and it connects this way with this many people, is it a mixtape? What's an 'album' these days, anyways?

  Chance the Rapper

  Rap, People, Doe

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• The American people ask, and legitimately so, why should we carry the heavy burden to ensure international peace and stability. You also profit from it, so you should also take your share in the burden. That's Secretary Gates's message. I share that message.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  People, Messages, Burden

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I feel like a good director provokes you to ask questions about your character, but doesn't answer them for you.

  Crystal Reed

  Character, Directors, Answers

  "Tyler Posey and Crystal Reed Exclusive Interview Teen Wolf (MTV’s Reboot Airing in 2011)". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 19, 2010.

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• When people ask me what my motivation is, I have a simple answer: money.

  Jerry Reed

  Motivation, Simple, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you look back at my marathons and ask whether I would swap one of them for my one balls-up, of course I would. But you can't choose. You have to make the best of it on the day.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Balls, Looks, Marathon

  "Marathon mum" by Duncan Mackay, www.theguardian.com. December 08, 2007.

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• Many in local government will ask why should only a few areas have the freedoms and benefits of Enterprise Zone status while the majority lose out?

  Andy Sawford

  Government, Benefits, Majority

  "The budget: we pick the key points for local authorities" by Andy Sawford, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2011.

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• Young men keep telling me they don't 'have it all' either. And they may have a point. But if you define 'having it all' as the opportunity to have a successful career and a family, I'd say this. When a man tells his coworkers he's going to have a child, no one asks him how he'll manage or if he'll be coming back to work.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Children, Successful, Opportunity

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• I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say this was an important book to write.

  Asne Seierstad

  Book, Writing, Important

  "Bookseller of Kabul author Åsne Seierstad: 'It's not possible to write a neutral story'". Interview with Amelia Hill, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2010.

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• If you ask me about my views on the environment, on women's rights, on gay rights, I am liberal. I don't have a problem with that at all. Some of my best friends are liberal.

  Bernie Sanders

  Gay, Rights, Views

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did.

  Compay Segundo

  Strong, Grandmother, Waiting

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• If someone comes to you and asks for help, and you can help them, you're supposed to help them. Why wouldn't you? You have been put in the position somehow to be able to help this person.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Able, Helping, Position

  "Gil Scott-Heron, my brave and brilliant friend" by Jamie Byng, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2011.

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• People often ask why I left CNN.....I didn’t like management. I liked my colleagues in the news gathering but the corporate culture that seized management when AOL came in (Steve Case and Gerry Levin) was disgusting.

  Greta Van Susteren

  Cnn, People, Gathering

  "Greta Van Susteren Slams CNN Over Holiday Layoffs: 'No "Heroes" In Management There!'" by Nicholas Graham, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 14, 2009.

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• If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Sports, Advice, Slumps

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• How can we ask for our young stars to have a high level of responsibility if we are not demonstrating that same level of responsibility towards them?

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Stars, Responsibility, Levels

  Jada Pinkett Smith @jada, www.facebook.com. March 10, 2013.

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• I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship.

  Katey Sagal

  Believe, Struggle, Character

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• People say, 'Just say who you're dating. Then people will stop being so ravenous about it.' It's like, 'No they won't! They'll ask for specifics.'

  Kristen Stewart

  People, Dating, Specifics

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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