Ask Me Quotes - Page 31

• 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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• I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaking to ask me to make the new Superman.

  Richard Donner

  Movie, Thinking, Actors

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• The truth of the matter is, every film is imperfect. It's the nature of the beast. One of the things that people ask me all the time is, what's the difference between theater and film, and one of the biggest differences is, in the theater you always get another go.

  Stephen Daldry

  Differences, People, Matter

  "Reading 'The Reader' with Stephen Daldry". Rotten Tomatoes Interview, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. February 17, 2009.

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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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• My child, it will be better for you if you accept my decisions without complaint. Do not ask me to defend my actions or to explain why one person is favored and another seems slighted. The answers to these questions go far beyond your comprehension.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Children, Decision, Answers

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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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• If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple life epitomized in the charkha, I do so because I know that without an intelligent return to simplicity, there is no escape from our d.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Simple, Men, Intelligent

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• If you ask me what the world looks like to me, it looks like a painting by Pissarro.

  Ernst Gombrich

  Perception, Looks, World

  Ernst Hans Gombrich, Didier Eribon (1993). “Looking for answers: conversations on art and science”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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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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• I just do what everybody asks me to do, in terms of media and stuff.

  Damien Hirst

  Media, Stuff, Term

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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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• A lot of DJs who started the same time as me, they are not to be seen anymore. And I get so much love and respect from the young DJs, and some of them look up to me or ask me for advice. I am almost like the mentor.

  Tiesto

  Advice, Mentor, Looks

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

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• If you ask me why I left China, it's just that I went for a stroll and strolled too far away.

  Mu Xin

  Far Away, China, Left

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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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• What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.

  Astrid Lindgren

  Children, Book, Thinking

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• You may ask me for anything you like except time.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Time, May, Asks

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• People sometimes ask me if I do not feel lonely on holidays. How can I feel lonely when I live in the constant awareness of God's presence? I love and I enjoy being with people, but when I am alone I enjoy being alone with God.

  Peace Pilgrim

  God, Lonely, Holiday

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.48, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• People often ask me if I know the secret of success and if I could tell others how to make their dreams come true. My answer is, you do it by working.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, Greatness, People

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• We had a great lunch. Senator Capper paid for it. The Republican pays, as usual. And everything that the Democrats are doin' now, the Republicans pay for it. Everybody asks me, "Will, how long is this going to go on, spending all this money and everything going like this?" I says, "Well, it will go on just as long as the Republicans has got any money. That's all I know about it."

  Will Rogers

  Lunch, Long, Usual

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• To ask me whether I could endure to live without friends is absurd. It is easy enough to live out of material sight of friends, but to live without human love is impossible.

  John Muir

  Friendship, Love Is, Sight

  John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.26, Great West Books

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