Ask Me Quotes - Page 5

• You ask me what I'd like to do that I haven't done and I say 'Nothin'!' I haven't any mountains to climb or oceans to swim. I've been an extremely blessed individual. ... I'm not clamorin' for more trinkets. If I were to die tomorrow, I could say I've had a good life.

  Ray Charles

  Good Life, Ocean, Blessed

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• I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.

  Taylor Lautner

  Teenager, Team, Panties

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• When people ask me what they should do, I reply, "Get informed, get outraged, and then get political."

  Joseph J. Romm

  People, Political, Climate

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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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• I been drunk most my life, don't ask me why.
  Through ninth grade, I ain't go to high school,
  ...I went to school high.

  Sheek Louch

  Rap, School, Drunk

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• People ask me how come you've been around so long. Well, it's through playing the part of Mr Average Joe American.

  Gary Cooper

  Average Joe, Long, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You ask me, "Did I like Arsenio?"
  About as much as the Bicentennial.

  Ice Cube

  Rap, Hip Hop, Asks

  Song: The Nigga Ya Love to Hate, Album: AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted

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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 which I would rather give up, writing or medicine, it's like being asked which eye I'd prefer to have poked out with a spoon: neither, and please use a fork.

  Chris Adrian

  Giving Up, Writing, Eye

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• Embarrassed journalists ask me embarrassing questions, and they get embarrassing answers, and then hand out embarrassing stories to the embarrassing editors, who put them to the front pages of newspapers. When is this going to end?

  Yao Ming

  Embarrassing Questions, Hands, Editors

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• You ask me, "Will you say something more about relaxation? I am aware of a tension deep in the core of me and suspect that I have probably never been totally relaxed."

  Rajneesh

  Relaxation, Tension, Relaxed

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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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• Religion is sort of like a lift in your shoes. If it makes you feel better, fine. Just don't ask me to wear your shoes.

  George Carlin

  Feel Better, Shoes, Religion

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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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• 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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• Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, It is not good for a woman to live alone.

  Anna Held

  Husband, Men, Right Man

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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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• 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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• When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experiences of nearly forty years at sea, I merely say uneventful. I have never been in an accident of any sort worth speaking about....I never saw a wreck and have never been wrecked, nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort.

  Edward Smith

  Years, Sea, Safety

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• Be humble about it. Paint the color tones as they come against each other, and make them sing, vibrate. Don't ask me to look at those self-satisfied, pretty things.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Humility, Humble, Pride

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• People often ask me how would I like to be remembered and I answer that I would simply like to be remembered.

  Roy Orbison

  People, Answers, Remembered

  Alex Orbison, Roy Orbison, Wesley Orbison (2017). “The Authorized Roy Orbison: The Authorized Biography”, p.8, Hachette UK

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• You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.

  George Armstrong Custer

  Country, Regret, War

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• Before you judge me, ask me about my childhood. And I will ask you about yours.

  Michael Jackson

  Judging, Childhood, Judge Me

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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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• I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest.

  Broderick Crawford

  Trouble, Priests, Mass

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