Ask Me Quotes - Page 19

• When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you'll have to hire someone else, and you'll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we're so proud of.'

  Mitch Daniels

  Leader, Proud, Indiana

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• Don't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any attention to me when my job is at stake.

  Christopher Dodd

  Jobs, Writing, Thinking

  "EXCLUSIVE: Chris Dodd warns of Hollywood backlash against Obama over anti-piracy bill". www.foxnews.com. January 19, 2012.

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• Those who count on quote 'Hollywood' for support need to understand that this industry is watching very carefully who's going to stand up for them when their job is at stake. Don't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any attention to me when my job is at stake.

  Christopher Dodd

  Jobs, Writing, Thinking

  "EXCLUSIVE: Chris Dodd warns of Hollywood backlash against Obama over anti-piracy bill", www.foxnews.com. January 19, 2012.

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• If you go to a big city anywhere in the world and you need a doctor, just ask me. I can tell you who's good and who's bad. I've even considered writing a guidebook.

  Steffi Graf

  Writing, Doctors, Cities

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• When people ask me to define science fiction and fantasy I say they are the literatures that explore the fact that we are toolmakers and users, and are always changing our environment.

  Nalo Hopkinson

  People, Fiction, Literature

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• When people ask me how they should approach performance, I always tell them the professional musician should aspire to the state of the beginner.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  People, Musician, Beginners

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• Ask me if Christianity (my version of it, yours, the Pope's, whoever's) is orthodox, meaning true, and here's my honest answer: a little, but not yet. Assuming by Christianity you mean the Christian understanding of the world and God, Christian opinions on soul, text, and culture I'd have to say that we probably have a couple of things right, but a lot of things wrong, and even more spreads before us unseen and unimagined. But at least our eyes are open! To be a Christian in a generously orthodox way is not to claim to have the truth captured, stuffed, and mounted on the wall.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Christian, Wall, Couple

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• We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth, and if you ask me about those insoluble economic problems that may arise if the top is deprived of their initiative, I would answer 'To hell with them.' The top is greedy and mean and will always find a way to take care of themselves. They always do.

  Michael Foot

  Mean, Helping Others, Common Purpose

  Michael Foot (1984). “Another heart and other pulses: the alternative to the Thatcher society”, HarperCollins

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• When people ask me, "Who was the toughest pitcher you ever faced?", I have to say that there has never been a pitcher who over-impressed me. That's not meant to be a bragging statement. It's just that I get up for good pitchers.

  Pete Rose

  People, Bragging, Get Up

  Pete Rose, Whitehall, Hadlyme & Smith (1979). “Pete Rose: my life in baseball”, Doubleday Books

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• People ask me to describe how I play, and the most obvious answer is that I'm a jazz influenced guitar player. But I'm not a jazz guitar player. Wes Montgomery was a jazz guitarist, Joe Pass was a jazz guitarist (laughs).

  Larry Carlton

  Music, Player, Guitar

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• One thing people always ask me is 'How do you play outside?' ... I have no idea how to teach that, but when I was discussing this with our bass player Jesse Murphy, he said 'tell them to go cliff diving'... In other words, when you're jamming, you have to take risks if you want to find new sounds.

  John Scofield

  Music, Player, Ideas

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• They ask me what I'd like written about me when I'm gone. I hope they write I made Penn State a better place, not just that I was a good football coach.

  Joe Paterno

  Football, Writing, Gone

  Gene Collier, Joe Paterno (1997). “The Paterno Legacy”

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• Some day I'm going to have to stand before God, and if He asks me why I didn't let that [Jackie] Robinson fellow play ball, I don't think saying 'because of the color of his skin' would be a good enough answer.

  Branch Rickey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball

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• Or you can broil the meat, fry the onions, stew the garlic in the red wine...and ask me to supper. I'll not care, really, even if your nose is a little shiny, so long as you are self-possessed and sure that wolf or no wolf, your mind is your own and your heart is another's and therefore in the right place.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Heart, Wine, Self

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• I think people talk too much; that's the truth of the matter. I do. I don't believe in words. People use too many words and usually wrongly. I am sure that in the distant future people will talk much less and in a more essential way. If people talk a lot less, they will be happier. Don't ask me why.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "Interview in Rome". Encountering Directors, (pp. 15-32), 1972.

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• People always ask me: 'When is the new Pele going to be born?' Never. My father and mother have closed the factory.

  Pele

  Mother, Father, People

  "Pele insists: Messi isn't in my league yet". www.mirror.co.uk. January 20, 2012.

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• When people ask me to name the Ligonier teaching material they should use to help them grow; I tell them, 'You should start with The Holiness of God.'

  R. C. Sproul

  Teaching, Names, People

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• Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did and I'd say, well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical - but that makes no sense to anyone. Now I say I just write my own songs. I thought I had to help people get me, but I don't think they need to be spoon-fed. If you connect with me that is cool. I don't need the whole world to feel like I am a soul angel.

  Laura Mvula

  Song, Angel, Writing

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• Now, I believe that one of the reasons that Jesus was accused of being a homosexual is because he spent time with homosexuals. I've often had people ask me, would you allow a homosexual to be your friend. Yes, I will. And the reason I will is because I know that that person has problems, and if I can minister to those problems, I will.

  Reggie White

  Jesus, Believe, People

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• Cherry-ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry,
  Full and fair ones; come and buy.
  If so be you ask me where
  They do grow, I answer: There,
  Where my Julia's lips do smile;
  There's the land, or cherry-isle,
  Whose plantations fully show
  All the year where cherries grow.

  Robert Herrick

  Years, Land, Answers

  'Cherry-Ripe'

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• I don't want to write a mass before being in a state to do it well, that is a Christian. I have therefore taken a singular course to reconcile my ideas with the exigencies of Academy rules. They ask me for something religious: very well, I shall do something religious, but of the pagan religion. . . . I have always read the ancient pagans with infinite pleasure, while in Christian writers I find only system, egoism, intolerance, and a complete lack of artistic taste.

  Georges Bizet

  Christian, Religious, Taken

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• You say I have the most wicked face of any woman. You say my hair is like the serpent locks of Medusa, that my eyes have the cruel cunning of Borgia, that my mouth is the mouth of the sinister scheming Delilah, that my hands are like the talons of a Circe or the blood-bathing Elizabeth Bathory. And then you ask me of my soul—you wish to know if it is reflected in my face.

  Theda Bara

  Eye, Hair, Blood

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• Well, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as Persuasion but with a modern setting, of course. For the next thirty years or so I shall be collecting material for it. If anyone asks me what I work at, I shall say, 'Collecting material'. No one can object to that.

  Stella Gibbons

  Writing, Years, Three

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• People often ask me why don't you have a girlfriend. Then I smile and say: I have thousands some just haven't met me yet

  Harry Styles

  Girlfriend, People, I Smile

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• What? What am I 'bound to be feeling?' People don’t think anymore. They feel. 'How are you feeling? No, I don’t feel comfortable. I’m sorry, we as a group we’re feeling….' One of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas. Thoughts and ideas. That interests me. Ask me what I’m thinking.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Sorry, Thinking, Ideas

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