Ask Me Quotes - Page 15

• Today, people can say anything they want. Suddenly it gets in the rumor mill and then it evolves and then somehow it becomes fact and you say, What is this? You know, why don't you ask me?

  Tom Cruise

  People, Rumor, Say Anything

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• People ask me, how is managing in the New Economy different from managing in the Old Economy? Actually, it's a lot the same. It's about the financial discipline of the bottom line, understanding your customers, segmenting your customers by their needs, and building a world-class management team.

  Meg Whitman

  Team, Class, Discipline

  Interview with Stephen B. Shepard, www.bloomberg.com. March 19, 2001.

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• If you ask me, what is helpful to creativity is training the eye to notice things, to observe closely and precisely, being careful not to make a muddle of it.

  Ian Graham

  Creativity, Eye, Training

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• You ask me whether I am in good spirits. How could I not be so? As long as Faith gives me strength I will always be joyful. Sadness ought to be banished from Catholic souls... the purpose for which we have been created shows us the path; even if strewn with many thorns, it is not a sad path. It is joyful even in the face of sorrow.

  Pier Giorgio Frassati

  Faith, Inspiration, Sadness

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• Everyone asks me 'how it feels to fly.' It feels like riding in a high powered automobile, minus bumping over the rough roads, continually signaling to clear the way and keeping a watchful on the speedometer to see that you do not exceed the speed limit and provoke the wrath of the bicycle policeman or the covetous constable.

  Harriet Quimby

  Wrath, Riding, Way

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• You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it...I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it. That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say. ... I don't like overdubs, never liked them. ... The music business doesn't interest me anymore...Don't the people you're around shape the music, is that what you're saying? Everything does. ... I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

  Lou Reed

  Believe, Play, People

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• If I had lost a leg, I would tell them, instead of a boy, no one would ever ask me if I was 'over it'. They would ask me how I was doing learning to walk without my leg. I was learning to walk and to breathe and to live without Wade. And what I was learning is that it was never going to be the life I had before.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Miscarriage, Boys, Wade

  Elizabeth Edwards (2010). “Resilience: The New Afterword”, p.80, Crown Archetype

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• Man O' War was a great racehorse, but if I put a extra 20 pounds on him they would say I was cruel to the animal. So don't ask me to do that to Chavez.

  Don King

  War, Animal, Men

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• Certainly there are things worth believing. I believe in the brotherhood of man and the uniqueness of the individual. But if you ask me to prove what I believe, I can't. You know them to be true but you could spend a whole lifetime without being able to prove them. The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a leap—call it intuition or what you will—and comes out upon a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Men, Discovery

  "Death of a Genius". Life Magazine, May 2, 1955.

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• I'm still very sensitive and wary of people recognising me The only thing that really annoys me is people trying to surreptitiously take a photo on their phone without asking. I feel it's cowardly and a bit pathetic. Just ask me if you really want me to have a photograph with you.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Phones, People, Trying

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• When people ask me why I don't eat meat or any other animal products, I say, 'Because they are unhealthy and they are the product of a violent and inhumane industry.'

  Casey Affleck

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Meat Industry

  YouTube Channel "peta2TV"/"Casey Affleck's Banned 'Go Vegan' PSA", www.peta2.com. February 06, 2013.

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• ‘How do you juggle it all?’ people constantly ask me, with an accusatory look in their eyes. ‘You’re screwing it all up, aren’t you?’ their eyes say. My standard answer is that I have the same struggle as any working parent but with the good fortune to be working at my dream job. Or sometimes I just hand them a juicy red apple I’ve poisoned in my working-mother witch cauldron and fly away.

  Tina Fey

  Mother, Dream, Jobs

  "Confessions of a Juggler" by Tina Fey, www.newyorker.com. February 14, 2011.

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• When people ask me, ‘how do you make it in show business,’ or whatever, what I always tell them — and nobody ever takes note of it ‘cuz it’s not the answer they wanted to hear…but I always say, ‘Be so good they can’t ignore you.’

  Steve Martin

  People, Answers, Cuz

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• I know that 20 years from now if anyone asks me one question, it will be, 'What was it like to be in Saving Private Ryan?

  Tom Sizemore

  Years, Saving Private Ryan, Knows

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• I love the earth. If you ask me it's the greatest planet in the world.

  Stephen Colbert

  World, Earth, Planets

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• I eat cupcakes and I don't work out! But if you ask me in 10 years, I'm going to regret answering that way now. I don't even drink water, I'm terrible! I'm 24 now, so I guess I've been very, very lucky that it doesn't show that I like to eat. I should probably start working out I guess.

  Blake Lively

  Regret, Cupcakes, Years

  "Celebrities Who Say They Don’t Diet Or Exercise", www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2013.

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• When a young person asks me: 'Can you show me how to do this?' I simply answer: 'No, I am going to show you how to do it. But then, you'll have to learn with your own technique, your own way of moving, your style, your abilities and your limitations. You are going to learn to be yourself, not someone else.

  David Belle

  Being Yourself, Moving, Style

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• You ask me if I have a God complex? Let me tell you something — I am God.

  Alec Baldwin

  God Complex, Malice, Let Me

  "Fictional character: Jed". Malice, www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• People ask me how I stay thin, and I'm like, 'When you go to the grocery store, buy more bananas than cookies.'

  Elizabeth Banks

  People, Cookies, Bananas

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• Everybody asks me this, whether I'm slightly annoyed that I didn't get to kiss Johnny Depp. We would have laughed.

  Kate Winslet

  Kissing, Annoyed, Laughed

  "Johnny Depp just has 'a weird job'". www.today.com. October 18, 2004.

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• I've always enjoyed stories that take place in the future but my one disappointment was that the future books described never came. We're not on other planets, there are no flying cars, and the only robots we have in our homes just sweep the floor. So I wanted to write about a future that I thought could really happen. People ask me when I tell them the title of the book, 'Are we all dead?' The good news is, no. We're still here. And I even think the future in my book is strangely hopeful, although I'm sure there will be people who strongly disagree.

  Albert Brooks

  Disappointment, Book, Home

  "Albert Brooks Wrote a Novel About The Future. He’s A Comedian. It’s Kind Of Funny. But Also: Good" by Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2011.

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• War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.

  Alan Alda

  War, Hell, Asks

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• I only want to do good projects. I want to make good decisions. If it's just a dumb movie, then no, I'd rather stay in school. But if it's a movie worth telling and that I think I would really benefit from, then I would like to do it. And that's one of the reasons I still live in Colorado. I love being with my family and going to school, and then when I come out to L.A., that is the time to be in the movies. People ask me the questions, I do the promotion work, then I get to go back home and live my life.

  AnnaSophia Robb

  Home, School, Love Is

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• I’ve discovered a new affliction; it’s called Orphan Black Eyes. When people ask me what I’m working on and I tell them Orphan Black…they usually clutch a part of my body and their eyes go wide and a little crazy. People are MAD for this show. As am I.

  Michelle Forbes

  Crazy, Eye, People

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• People would ask me, "what do you want to be when you're older?" and I'd be like, "a singer," and they'd be like, "what do you really want to be?" and I'd be like, "oh, I really want to be a singer."

  Leona Lewis

  Want, Singers, Asks

  NRJ Radio, October 2007.

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