Ask Me Quotes

• Ask me not what I have, but what I am.

  Heinrich Heine

  Literature, Asks

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• I stare out the window and wait for spring.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Baseball, Inspirational Sports, Spring

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

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• People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Sports, Baseball, Spring

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

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• But if you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I think I am living for.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Thinking, Hair

  "My Argument with the Gestapo: Autobiographical novel".

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• People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Inspirational, Funny, Hilarious

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• Absolutely father knows best, always do what your fathers say, and if you can't find one then just ask me, I am a father and I know best.

  Rainn Wilson

  Father, Knows, Asks

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• If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Hilarious, Sports

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• If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

  Emile Zola

  Life, Motivational, Perseverance

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• You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Notebook

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• People ask me why it is so hard to trust and I ask them why is it so hard to keep a promise.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Meaningful, People, Promise

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• Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.

  Jodi Picoult

  Memories, Heart, Two

  Jodi Picoult (2005). “Vanishing Acts”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m “passing the torch.” I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much-and I’m using it to light the torches of others.

  Gloria Steinem

  Light, People, Age

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• I got quite cross when I heard about Emma Thompson adapting 'Sense and Sensibility.' It was absolutely childish of me, but I thought, 'I should be doing that. They didn't even ask me.' Some mistake, surely.

  Andrew Davies

  Mistake, Emma, Crosses

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• I don't know if it's a romantic comedy but I'm in the beginning of the first of the season of "The West Wing." We shot it last year. I don't know. If anyone asks me to be in one, I'll jump on it.

  Jason Isaacs

  Years, Wings, Lasts

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• If you ask me, the place that a story happens is as equal character. It's almost like an ecological viewpoint: These people are living in this piece of land, and in this piece of land in this time this is possible. For me, I almost think location first. It's time first - what year is it - then where are we, and then who is in it.

  Mike Mills

  Character, Thinking, Land

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• People ask me about my interests outside football, but I haven't really got any.

  Brian McDermott

  Football, People, Interest

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• If you ask me why I've succeeded it's because I was in the Royal Marines. You have this unbelievable sense of achievement and of overcoming adversity. That's the confidence it breeds.

  Brian McDermott

  Adversity, Marine, Achievement

  "Brian McDermott, the marine who became a world-beater with Leeds". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2013.

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• It's too late to fall in love with Sharon Tate / But it's too soon to ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb.

  Jim Carroll

  Falling In Love, Too Late, Want

  Song: It's Too Late

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• I have no life! People always ask me, "What time do you check in and out?" But, the truth is, you never really check out. I have an office at my house, so when I go home I am always pulling inspiration and putting ideas together.

  Jeremiah Brent

  Inspiration, Home, Ideas

  The Inside Source Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2011.

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• I look for really great characters. I say great because as long as they're really good, there's something you can do. And really good storytelling. And when people ask me what the story is, I say it's really several stories really. They're intermeshed.

  Matt Dillon

  Character, Long, People

  "Matt Dillon and Thandie Newton talk Crash". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. May 5, 2005.

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• My wife asks me, when I get home from auditions, if they asked how tall I am. And if I say "Yes," then she says, "Okay, you didn't get that job."

  Adam Baldwin

  Jobs, Home, Wife

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. February 2, 2009.

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• There's never been a blueprint, I just keep exploring doors as they open. But whenever people would ask me what's my favorite thing to do, it was sitting in for Larry King.

  Drew Pinsky

  Kings, Doors, People

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• When interviewers ask me who I'm sleeping with or if I don't like such-and-such or what is my sexuality, that's not beneficial to the world. They need to ask me about stuff that may help readers, like how my father abused my mother for many years. A lot of kids go through that and need to know what they should do.

  Missy Elliot

  Mother, Father, Sleep

  "New Again: Missy Elliott". Interview with Michael Musto, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2014.

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• My producers give me total freedom. No one asks me for anything; they just tell me to make a good film, and that's what I do.

  Michel Ocelot

  Giving, Film, Producers

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• When you meet someone, ask about what hobby they have, not what they do. People always ask me about cooking, but I prefer to talk about tennis or boxing.

  Wolfgang Puck

  People, Boxing, Tennis

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