Ask Me Quotes - Page 23

• People always ask me about the intent of witchcraft and what it is used for. The answer in 'white' covens is simple: it is to be use the powers for good amongst the circle and its friends.

  Vivianne Crowley

  Simple, Circles, White

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• To ask me is in vain;
  For who goes up your winding stair
  Can ne'er come down again.

  Mary Howitt

  Vain, Stairs, Asks

  Mary Howitt (1834). “Sketches of natural history”, p.123

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• Clients say, 'What's your strategy,' and I say, 'Ask me what I believe first.' That's a far more enduring answer.

  Ginni Rometty

  Believe, Firsts, Clients

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• Fans always ask me to marry them so I'll have a lot of wives

  Niall Horan

  Wife, Fans, Asks

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• If you ask me a question like what is your greatest accomplishment, it should be what I’m about to do

  Kanye West

  Accomplishment, Should, Asks

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• People ask me a lot about my drive. I think it comes from, like, having a sexual addiction at a really young age. Look at the drive that people have to get sex - to dress like this and get a haircut and be in the club in the freezing cold at 3 A.M., the places they go to pick up a girl. If you can focus the energy into something valuable, put that into work ethic

  Kanye West

  Girl, Sex, Thinking

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• They ask me how Im doing. I say better than I deserve

  LeCrae

  Asks, Deserve

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• You know, people always ask me how I describe my music. First of all I tell them that's their job and then that also one day I hope to have things referred to as Martha Wainwright -esque.

  Martha Wainwright

  Jobs, People, One Day

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• If anyone asks me about the George Martin years I usually say I group all of that stuff together as the single greatest experience but I wasn't scared I was just really looking forward to it.

  Gerry Beckley

  Years, Together, Groups

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• Some people meet me sometimes and they sit down and talk to me for a while and ask me my name and say, 'Oh, you're the guy'.

  Leonard Little

  Names, People, Guy

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• I am a conservative type of person, so sometimes when I'm chilling with myself, people always come ask me, 'What's wrong with you? What are you wondering about?'

  Wayne Wonder

  People, Conservative, Chill

  "Who is Wayne Wonder?". Interview with Laura Gardner, jahworks.org. September 5, 2000.

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• You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mother's bosom? Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest.

  Wovoka

  Mother, Native American, Cutting

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• When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, 'What choice do I have?'

  Patricia Schroeder

  Running, People, Choices

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• I had a student ask me, "Could the savior you believe in save Osama bin Laden?" Of course, we know the blood of Jesus Christ can save him, and then he must be executed.

  Jerry Falwell

  Religious, Jesus, Believe

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• Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.

  Billie Jean King

  Dancing, Singing, Asks

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• It's unnecessary and destructive to think of oneself at all. People ask me, 'What do you think of yourself as?' My answer is, 'Nothing.

  Paul Bowles

  Thinking, People, Ego

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• If someone asks me a question, there might be a truthful answer and a correct answer.

  Tim Henman

  Answers, Might, Truthful

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• Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles.

  Buddy Guy

  Guitar, Perfect, Car

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• People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'

  Serj Tankian

  Thinking, People, Political

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• When someone asks me to do something, something new, something I don’t know about, and if I haven’t done it, I’ll say yes. Just so I can try something new. You never know what you might like.

  Osric Chau

  Trying, Done, Might

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• Many musicians are fabulously skilled at playing the black dots on the printed page, but mystified by how the dots got there in the first place and apprehensive of playing without dots. Music theory does not help here; it teaches rules of the grammar, but not what to say. When people ask me how to improvise, only a little of what I can say is about music. The real story is about spontaneous expression, and it is therefore a spiritual and a psychological story rather than a story about the technique of one art form or another.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Spiritual, Art, Real

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.9, Penguin

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• People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is - just be a little kinder.

  Aldous Huxley

  Years, People, Technique

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• You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary - it's always imaginary - world in which I would like to live.

  William S. Burroughs

  Writing, Creating, Islands

  The Paris Review Interview, Fall 1965.

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• If someone were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply 'Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.'

  Luis Bunuel

  Dream, Years, Two

  Luis Bunuel (2011). “My Last Breath”, p.86, Random House

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• People ask me what my predictions are for publishing and how digital is changing things and I tell them my only real prediction is that is it's all changing. Amazon, Google and all of those things probably aren't the enemy. The enemy right now is simply refusing to understand that the world is changing.

  Neil Gaiman

  Real, People, Google

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