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• It's ridiculous if you ask me. I don't know what any of us are doing here. But we're a tribe, a network, cruising the galaxy. We have offices in every loka, in every part of existence. I suppose you make that out to be a unique situation. We're Unique! No, I don't think so. We're enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Unique, Thinking

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• People always want to ask me about my dad. Which I get because he's a phenomenal actor, and that's for the world, that's out there. But my mother is every bit as impressive and as important for the world as my dad is. It's just that she's not an actor.

  Domhnall Gleeson

  Mother, Dad, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Journalists often ask me: "Aren't you sorry that after all the work you've done, you're best known as Magneto and Gandalf?" But that's what I've always wanted - not to be known as myself. I want to draw attention to the characters.

  Ian Mckellen

  Sorry, Character, Want

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• People ask me, "How do I succeed?" Whatever it is they do, I say, "Go and find 20 ways of messing it up. By 21, you'll be getting there." Life is an adventure, go back with cuts, scars and bruises.

  Bear Grylls

  Adventure, Cutting, People

  "​I Went Camping With Bear Grylls, And Survived". Interview with Wes Siler, gizmodo.com. November 20, 2014.

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• Don't ask me about this building or that one, don't look at what I do, see what I see.

  Luis Barragan

  Looks, Building, Asks

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• In order for a musician to grow, he's got to pay his dues. Some musicians ask me, 'well, what do you mean? You're saying I have to 'starve' and pay all these dues just to play jazz?' And my answer to them is, well, to some degree, yes! Because in order to play jazz you have to live it. Those notes mean something. They don't just come from your brain, they come from your heart and soul too. And in order to have that heart and soul you have to experience life. So I relate my music to my life and my life style. You can't separate the two.

  Woody Shaw

  Mean, Heart, Order

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• I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who actually ask me to be more, because they see it in me.

  Charles Yu

  People, Asks

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Enhanced Edition): A Novel”, p.131, Knopf

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• If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.

  Elie Wiesel

  Teaching, Want, Awareness

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.85, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• People, when asked if they are Christians, give some of the strangest answers you ever heard. Some will say if you ask them: "Well - well - well, I, - I hope I am." Suppose a man should ask me if I am an American. Would I say: "Well, I - well, I - I hope I am?

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Men, People

  Dwight L Moody (1995). “Heaven”, p.76, Moody Publishers

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• Don't ask me for promises until I know what I am promising.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Promise, Knows, Asks

  1894 Catherine to Raina. Arms and the Man, act 1.

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• Ask me who I don't dress!

  Coco Chanel

  Dresses, Asks

  "Paris, Paris : Journey Into the City of Light‎". Book by David Downie, p. 93, 2005.

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• People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it.

  Ray Bradbury

  People, Want, Building The Future

  "Beyond 1984: The People Machines". Book by Ray Bradbury, 1979.

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• People always ask me about career choices, though it rarely ever seems like any kind of choice. It's just like, I really want to do something, this is what I can do, and that's it. I'm lucky to be doing this at all.

  Emile Hirsch

  Careers, People, Choices

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• I'm a child myself, in the sense that I'm still looking. Children are fascinated by black holes and ask me questions. I find they soon get the idea if it is explained in nontechnical language.

  Stephen Hawking

  Children, Ideas, Black

  "Q & A: Stephen Hawking and daughter Lucy". Today interview, www.today.com. November 2, 2007.

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• My advice to whoever asks me how to make a home is to not have anything, just a few shelves for books, some pillows to sit on. And then, to take a stand against the ephemeral, against passing trends... and to return to lasting values.

  Gae Aulenti

  Book, Home, Advice

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• I bet you don't know what is the first thing Little Leaguers always ask me, 'How much money do you make?'

  Rocky Bridges

  Littles, Firsts, Little League

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• People always ask me if they're mine. Yes, they are... all bought and paid for.

  Dolly Parton

  People, Breasts, Mines

  "5 style lessons we can learn from Dolly Parton" by Rina Raphael, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• If a sheep dies on the shore of the Euphrates I fear lest Allah ask me to account for it on the Day of Resurrection.

  Umar

  Sheep, Resurrection, Shore

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• But my knowledge of Marxism was limited to knowing that Marx was a Jew, and that he had a long white beard. I said to Lunatcharsky (the political communist commissar for Education, 1918, fh) 'Whatever you do, don't ask me why I painted in blue or green, and why you can see a calf inside the cow's belly, etc. On the other hand you're welcome: if Marx is so wise, let him come back to life and explain it himself'. I showed him my canvases.

  Marc Chagall

  Wise, Hands, White

  "Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 - 1922". Book by Christoph Vitali, p. 34, 1991.

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• To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn't know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Book, Past, Long

  "V.S. Naipaul in Search of Himself: A Conversation" with Mel Gussow, "The New York Times", April 24, 1994.

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• What really worries me is that those who are in positions of power are not really affected by what we are writing. In the moral dialogue you want to start, you really want to involve the leaders. People ask me: "Why were you so bold as to publish A Man of the People? How did you think the Government was going to take it? You didn't know there was going to be a coup?" I said rather flippantly that nobody was going to read it anyway, so I wasn't likely to be fired from my official position. It's a distressing thought that we cannot engage our leaders in the kind of moral debate we need.

  Chinua Achebe

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  Chinua Achebe, Bernth Lindfors (1997). “Conversations with Chinua Achebe”, p.19, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• "You sound as if you question the authority and the decision of the Oracle, who said he should die."
  "I do not. Why should I? But the Oracle did not ask me to carry out its decision." [...]
  "The Earth cannot punish me for obeying her mesenger," Okonkwo said. "A child's fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam which its mother puts into its palm."

  Chinua Achebe

  Mother, Children, Yams

  "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe, Fawcett Premier edition, (p. 64), 1969.

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• People ask me how I stay happy and sane: I never google myself.

  Miley Cyrus

  People, Google, Stay Happy

  "Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman: the Two Sides of Miley Cyrus". Interview with Tavi Gevinson, www.elle.com. April 30, 2014.

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• Everybody always asks me what the big surprises were that I discovered about Woody and I never have a good stock answer for that, I never know quite what to tell them other than generally that he's much less neurotic and quirky than I would have expected.

  Robert B. Weide

  Quirky, Answers, Surprise

  "Director Robert Weide Talks WOODY ALLEN: A DOCUMENTARY, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, and His Kurt Vonnegut Documentary". Interview with Adam Chitwood, collider.com. February 15, 2012.

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• People ask me, "Are you right wing or are you left wing?" and I always say, "I'm for the whole bird." A one-winged bird didn't ever get off the ground.

  Rick Warren

  Wings, People, Bird

  "Rick & Kay Warren Extended Interview". Interview with Kim Lawton, www.pbs.org. September 01, 2006.

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