Ask Me Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• Religion - religion, at best - at BEST - is like a lift in your shoe. If you need it for a while, and it makes you walk straight and feel better - fine. But you don't need it forever, or you can become permanently disabled. Religion is like a lift in the shoe, and I say just don't ask me to wear your shoes. And let's not go down and nail lifts onto the natives' feet.

  George Carlin

  Feel Better, Shoes, Feet

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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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• I've always enjoyed stories that take place in the future but my one disappointment was that the future books described never came. We're not on other planets, there are no flying cars, and the only robots we have in our homes just sweep the floor. So I wanted to write about a future that I thought could really happen. People ask me when I tell them the title of the book, 'Are we all dead?' The good news is, no. We're still here. And I even think the future in my book is strangely hopeful, although I'm sure there will be people who strongly disagree.

  Albert Brooks

  Disappointment, Book, Home

  "Albert Brooks Wrote a Novel About The Future. He’s A Comedian. It’s Kind Of Funny. But Also: Good" by Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2011.

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• I'm a legend in this sport. If you don't believe me, ask me

  Bobby Heenan

  Sports, Believe, Wwe

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• Even when I was little, people would always ask me if I wanted to be a movie star, and I would always say, "No, I just want to be an actor."

  Wil Wheaton

  Stars, People, Want

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

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  I always laugh when people ask me about rebounding techniques. I've got a technique. It's called just go get the damn ball.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Nba, People

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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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• 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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• 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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• Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?

  Muhammad Ali

  Dog, Home, Simple

  "Stephen Frears To Direct ‘Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight’ For HBO, Casting Underway" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. February 1, 2012.

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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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• Oh, she's my bodyguard. I mean, I'm a married man, and the last thing you need in that situation is to be considered a sexy individual. But I try to never let this whole McDreamy thing really influence us. I'm trying to just have a calm family life, to make my marriage work. It's not as if when my wife asks me to take out the trash, I say, 'Um, honey, don't you realize that I'm too sexy for that'? Well, actually, I do, but she gives me crap for it.

  Patrick Dempsey

  Sexy, Mean, Men

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• When people ask me how they should approach performance, I always tell them the professional musician should aspire to the state of the beginner.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  People, Musician, Beginners

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• If you go to a big city anywhere in the world and you need a doctor, just ask me. I can tell you who's good and who's bad. I've even considered writing a guidebook.

  Steffi Graf

  Writing, Doctors, Cities

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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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• 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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• 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 re-engineering or restructuring or downsizing or rightsizing or whatever you want to call it, it's basically firing, has gone way too far. Employees, as I've talked to them across the country, feel that they are not respected, they are not valued, they are worried about their jobs. They simply feel that the company is no longer loyal to them. Why should they be loyal to the company, they ask me. Why should I go the extra mile? Why should I care?

  Robert Reich

  Country, Jobs, Business

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• Friends: how many have 'em?
  How long before they split like atoms?
  Don't ask me, but what I do stand behind
  Is someone havin' your back seems hard to find.

  Kelvin Mercer

  Rap, Long, Hip Hop

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• People ask me if I could fly, I said, 'yeah....' for a little while.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Nba

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• Many times people ask me, "What is sin and what is virtue? And how to decide?" If you decide your decision will be wrong. If you choose you will be wrong. All choice is wrong. There is no way to decide. There is no need to decide what is sin and what is virtue. You only need a transparent mind, a clarity, a thoughtless mind, a no-mind, a mirror-like consciousness. In that consciousness WHATSOEVER HAPPENS is virtue. In that consciousness WHATSOEVER CANNOT HAPPEN is sin.

  Rajneesh

  Mirrors, People, Choices

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• Or you can broil the meat, fry the onions, stew the garlic in the red wine...and ask me to supper. I'll not care, really, even if your nose is a little shiny, so long as you are self-possessed and sure that wolf or no wolf, your mind is your own and your heart is another's and therefore in the right place.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Heart, Wine, Self

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• Oftentimes people ask me, 'Why is it that you're so focused on helping the hungry and diseased in strange parts of the world?'

  George W. Bush

  People, World, Helping

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• This is what I tell young women who ask me for career advice. People are going to try to trick you. To make you feel that you are in competition with one another. You're up for a promotion. If they go for a woman, it'll be between you and Barbara. Don't be fooled. You're not in competition with other women. You're in competition with everyone.

  Tina Fey

  Witty, Careers, People

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