Ask Me Quotes - Page 28

• People ask me what makes a good funeral, and I tell them the most important thing is your man in the casket. If you have a man of substance in there, you have the makings of a first-class funeral.

  Cleveland Amory

  Men, Class, People

  Cleveland Amory (1980). “The trouble with nowadays: a curmudgeon strikes back”, G K Hall & Co

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• You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Men, Office, Honest

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• On my door is a cartoon of two turtles. One says, 'Sometimes I would like to ask why he allows poverty, famine and injustice when he could do something about it.' The other turtle says 'I am afraid that God might ask me the same question.'

  Peter Kreeft

  Turtles, Doors, Two

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• I am always friendly with people. When media asks me for a picture or interview, I readily do it. However, I wouldn't like them clicking my picture when I am eating or when I visit a temple. I don't want to be big in front of God.

  Preity Zinta

  Media, People, Friendly

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• Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.

  Jules Renard

  Kindness, Be Kind, Asks

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.126, Tin House Books

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• If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Causes, Knows, Asks

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• If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so,and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter.

  Edmund Burke

  Thinking, Government, Judging

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.321

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• I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine. God is using me from His great personal standpoint, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him, and never say — Lord, this gives me such heart-ache.

  Oswald Chambers

  Faith, Heart, Giving

  "My Utmost for His Highest".

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• My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.

  John Hurt

  Insecure, Thinking, Parent

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2000.

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• Young singers ask me, "Do I have to live in New York?" I say, "You can live wherever you want-as long as people think you live in New York."

  Benita Valente

  Funny, New York, Humorous

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• If you ask me, taking on risk and being more daring is a real important part of creativity.

  Deborah Meier

  Real, Creativity, Risk

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• I think I know what it is but don't ask me to play it

  John Coltrane

  Inspirational, Thinking, Play

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• People ask me often [whether] the Nobel Prize [was] the thing you were aiming for all your life, and I say that would be crazy. Nobody would aim for a Nobel Prize because, if you didn't get it, your whole life would be wasted. What we were aiming at was getting people well, and the satisfaction of that is much greater than any prize you can get.

  Gertrude B. Elion

  Crazy, People, Would Be

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• One of the things everybody seems to want to ask writers is, "Where do you get your ideas?" When people ask me this, my usual response is, "Ideas are the easy part. The hard part is writing them down."

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Writing, Ideas, People

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• I'd much rather talk about guitar playing. I hate it when people ask me about my lyrics. I always feel like telling them to just go and read them.

  James Hetfield

  Hate, Guitar, People

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• Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I'm the only person who can't understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they're not that great. These are questions everyone has.

  Chris Martin

  Thinking, Tree, Doe

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• People used to ask me: 'Well, was it the power that attracted you to Bill Clinton?' And I said, well, how much power do you think the attorney general of Arkansas has? Of course not. It wasn't that for me. I just a thought he was wonderful in general.

  Gennifer Flowers

  Thinking, People, Bills

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• Yeah, a lot of people ask me to take my shirt off, which is aggressive. I wish that I were just one of those guys who was just like, "You know, look, when I was seven I had a six-pack, and it just never went away."

  Max Greenfield

  People, Guy, Wish

  "Talking Schmidt: Why We're Rooting for New Girl's Max Greenfield at the Emmy's". Interview with Bruce Handy an Juli Weiner, www.vanityfair.com. September 20, 2012.

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• What I love to say when people ask me about being a Christian, I always say, 'Christians aren't perfect.' They're probably some of the worst people on the planet. They just know that they need Jesus. That's the only difference.

  Yvette Nicole Brown

  Christian, Jesus, Differences

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

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• My biggest kick comes from the individual fans I run into. Middle-aged men ask me when we're going to do more Johnny Quest cartoons.

  Joseph Barbera

  Running, Men, Cartoon

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

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• There have been many times when I've been asked to appear and I'd say to myself, what am I going to talk about? Early on, when I did interviews, I'd tell everyone, Don't ask me about dates. I don't even remember what I did yesterday.

  Otis Blackwell

  Yesterday, Interviews, Remember

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• I'm claustrophobic. I can't go into haunted houses. They have these tight, dark, enclosed space. I freak out. That's my phobia. It gets me out of stuff. Someone asks me to do something and I tell them I can't because I'm claustrophobic.

  Mark Consuelos

  Dark, Space, House

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• People always ask me, 'Why did your wife take that extra job?' What they don't know is that four out of five days a week she's going to be home having dinner with us by five o'clock.

  Mark Consuelos

  Jobs, Home, Wife

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• Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me what it's like to kill people.

  Billy Crudup

  Play, People, Stakes

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• Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it's very natural. You get bored writing one kind of thing all the time.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Writing, People, Bored

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