Ask Me Quotes - Page 14

• When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as swimming or jogging.

  Tom Glazer

  Exercise, Swimming, Thinking

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• One of my fondest memories from childhood is of looking at a globe with my father. "What's the biggest country?" he'd ask me and my sister. We'd spin the globe around and guess. . . . The globe brought me a sense of wonder and adventure. I wanted to go to those other places and see how people did things differently. And, many years later, when I did visit other countries, I took my father's interest and fascination with me. When we plant the seeds of fascination and respect for other people, we are teaching tolerance and peace.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Country, Memories, Father

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• If you do not want what I want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong. Or if my beliefs are different from yours, at least pause before you set out to correct them. Or if my emotion seems less or more intense than yours, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel other than I do. Or if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, please let me be. I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up trying to change me into a copy of you.

  David Keirsey

  Giving Up, Design, Trying

  David Keirsey (1998). “Please Understand Me 2”, Prometheus Nemesis Book Company

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• I brought a picture with me that I had at home, of a girl in a swing with a castle and pretty blue bubbles in the background, to hang in my room, but that nurse here said the girl was naked from the waist up and not appropriate. You know, I've had that picture for fifty years and I never knew she was naked. If you ask me, I don't think the old men they've got here can see well enough to notice that she's bare-breasted. But, this is a Methodist home, so she's in the closet with my gallstones.

  Fannie Flagg

  Girl, Home, Thinking

  Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.19, Random House

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• People always ask me if I believe diamonds are a girl's best friend. Frankly, I don't.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Girl, Believe

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

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• There is definitely a connection between finding your passion and reaching your potential. People ask me all the time, 'John, how do I know what I am meant to do in life?' The answer is really simple: Energy and Excellence. When you experience unbounded energy in what you are doing, when you are driven to excellence in your work and love what you do - then you can rest assured that you have found your passion and are definitely in pursuit of your full potential.

  John C. Maxwell

  Passion, Simple, People

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• So when people ask me if I believe God created the universe, I tell them that the question itself makes no sense. Time didn't exist before the Big Bang, so there is no time for God to make the universe in. It's like asking for directions to the edge of the earth; the earth is a sphere, it doesn't have an edge, so looking for it is a futile exercise.

  Stephen Hawking

  Believe, Exercise, People

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• People often ask me if I'm working on a book. That's not how I feel. I feel like I work in a book. It's like putting myself under a spell. And this spell, if you will, is so real to me that if I have to leave my work for a few days, I have to work myself back into the spell when I come back. It's almost like hypnosis.

  David McCullough

  Real, Book, Hypnosis

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• Now somebody will ask me, Pete, how can you prove these songs really make a difference? And I have to confess I can't prove a darn thing, except that the people in power must think they do something, because they keep the songs off the air.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Thinking, Air

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• They ask me if I'm going to quit. I thought we were just getting started. We have a revolution to fight, a country to change.

  Ron Paul

  Country, Fighting, Revolution

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• Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order. At least spare us their morality when we write.

  Michel Foucault

  Writing, Who I Am, Order

  Michel Foucault, Jeremy Carrette (2013). “Religion and Culture”, p.13, Routledge

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• Women’s magazines will often ask me things like, 'All right, I need six five-minute happiness strategies.' And I say, well, there aren’t any five-minute happiness strategies. This is something you have to do kind of every day for the rest of your life. Just like if you want to raise moral children or if you want to advance in your career. It’s a goal you pursue your whole life.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Children, Careers, Goal

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• Right now if you ask me Carmelo Anthony is GONE. He's going to L.A. to play w/Kobe Bryant.

  Stephen A. Smith

  Play, Gone, Right Now

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• People ask me: "Why do you write about food, and eating, and drinking? Why don't you write about the struggle for power and security, and about love, the way the others do?" . . . The easiest answer is to say that, like most other humans, I am hungry.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Struggle, Drinking, Writing

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.388, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Always in search of the question that might make you ask me one in return

  Matthew Zapruder

  Might, Return, Asks

  Matthew Zapruder (2013). “Come on All You Ghosts”, p.6, Copper Canyon Press

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• I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Games, Play, People

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

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• Everywhere I go, people come up to me on the street and ask me if there’s going to be another one!

  Mike Myers

  People, Come Up, Streets

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• Don't ask me about my career - I've forgotten most of it.

  Timothy Dalton

  Careers, Forgotten, Asks

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• I started out as a writer and a director. I started acting because I wanted to know how to relate to the actors. When people ask me what I do, I don't really say that I'm an actor, because actors often wait for someone to give them roles.

  Chadwick Boseman

  People, Giving, Waiting

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

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• I'll be out with my friends and be recognized, and little girls will ask me for my autograph. It is so much fun living out your dream. It, like, totally reflects me 100%.

  Miley Cyrus

  Girl, Dream, Fun

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• People ask me, what was your rock bottom? I say, pick.

  Danny Bonaduce

  Rocks, People, Bottom

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• I’m going to pass a law that no one can ask me my golf score.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Golf, Law, Score

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• Lookit, I've done it their way this far and now it's my turn. I'm my own handler. Any questions? Ask me ... There's not going to be any more handler stories because I'm the handler ... I'm Doctor Spin.

  Dan Quayle

  Doctors, Stories, Done

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• A few nights later, I secretly hope that I might be a genius. Why else can no amount of sleeping pills fell my brain? But in the morning my daughter asks me what a cloud is and I cannot say.

  Jenny Offill

  Daughter, Morning, Sleep

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• I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works.

  Ann Beattie

  Glowing, Males, Admire

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