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• By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question - 'Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?'

  Alastair Campbell

  Happiness, Taken, Mean

  "How I got happy and stayed grumpy" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2012.

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• If one of my boys was asking me if they should go into politics, I'd say there's only one reason to go into public life and that's to help people.

  Evan Bayh

  Boys, People, Helping

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• I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions.

  Haley Barbour

  Careers, Community, Guy

  "Rep. Paul Ryan on Deficit Reduction; Gov. Haley Barbour on 2012 Presidential Politics". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. February 13, 2011.

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• That's sort of like asking a parent who their favorite child is. It's very hard to determine. Sometimes I'll get feedback from somebody who liked this part of the show. Others like another part of the show.

  Lance Burton

  Children, Parent, Favorite Child

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• But I don't want to be out there anymore; I don't want people asking me about my health issues, about my kids. I choose not to be a public paparazzi girl on purpose.

  Toni Braxton

  Girl, Kids, Issues

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

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• Whatever the press is talking about, they want to keep talking about it. So instead of asking yourself, 'How can I get them to start talking about me?', figure out a way to get yourself involved in what they're already talking about.

  Brian Chesky

  Talking, Want, Way

  "INSTANT MBA: If You've Just Solved A Problem, You May Have Solved It For Millions" by Patricia Laya, www.businessinsider.com. August 4, 2011.

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• I don't have much experience, but the few times when I would go on a date with a girl - like when I was 12 - there was a lot of sharing, and a lot of talking, and a lot of asking how I am. They thought we were dating, and I was sort of hoping to meet their brothers.

  Anderson Cooper

  Girl, Brother, Talking

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• I'm not asking people to feel sorry for me.

  Jack Abramoff

  Sorry, People, Feels

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• I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't.

  Joan Chen

  Believe, Giving, Advice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I would say my first golf memory was asking who Arnold Palmer was when he was always on the Pennzoil commercials. When I was a little kid I watched a lot of sports, but I didn't watch a lot of golf, and this guy was always on a tractor.

  Mike Greenberg

  Sports, Memories, Kids

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• With documentary-film projects, you hope you highlight an area of concern people haven't thought about before. A lot of times, I'm asking myself - 'This seems to be a significant problem. What can be done that hasn't been done?

  Paul Allen

  People, Done, Documentary Films

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• The fact is that seven per cent of the global population emits 50 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, and the proportions are the same for the use of energy and raw materials, meat, wood, etc. Simply put, an infinitesimal minority consumes the most and imposes damage on the overwhelming majority, while asking it to change.

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand

  Majority, Population, Raw Materials

  "Spotlight: Yann Arthus-Bertrand, cinematographer and Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme". UN News Centre Interview, www.un.org. February 7, 2011.

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• If you walk along the street you will encounter a number of scientific problems. Of these, about 80 per cent are insoluble, while 19½ per cent are trivial. There is then perhaps half a per cent where skill, persistence, courage, creativity and originality can make a difference. It is always the task of the academic to swim in that half a per cent, asking the questions through which some progress can be made.

  Hermann Bondi

  Creativity, Science, Persistence

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• Getting your news from Twitter is like asking a cat for directions.

  Andy Borowitz

  Funny, Cat, Technology

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• The smartest thing I did in law school: asking my future wife to go out dancing with me. The smartest thing I did when practicing law: quitting. The smartest thing I've done in writing: following my own head and writing what I wanted to write, and nothing but.

  Ben Fountain

  Writing, School, Law

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• I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that's impossible.

  Paul Michael Glaser

  Thinking, Today, Impossible

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• I've always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good position to be the one asking questions.

  Terry Gross

  Confused, Thinking, Asking Questions

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• By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.

  Walter Gilbert

  Mind, Answers, Way

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• Growing up, I would watch a movie on video and would go to the back of the VHS and locate the address for Universal Pictures or MGM or whatever. I'd write to the studios asking them if I could be in a movie. They never wrote me back.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Growing Up, Writing, Watches

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• I think I've been asked just about every question under the sun. I'm just really honored that people are even interested in asking me questions.

  Ken Jeong

  Thinking, People, Sun

  "Ken Jeong of "The Hangover Part II" The funniest doctor in America makes a house call". Interview with Kam Williams, www.philasun.com. May 30, 2011.

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• No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.

  Hamid Karzai

  Country, People, Constitution

  "Hamid Karzai Will ‘Definitely Not’ Allow Rep. Dana Rohrabacher Back Into Afghanistan" By Max J. Rosenthal, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2012.

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• Like every other form of art, literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death. The only question worth asking about a story — or a poem, or a piece of sculpture, or a new concert hall — is, Is it dead or alive?

  Mavis Gallant

  Art, Life And Death, Sculpture

  "Mavis Gallant obituary" by Christopher Hawtree, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2014.

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• I am not asking anyone to take the fun out of childhood. As we all know, treats are one of the best parts of being a kid. Instead, the goal here is to empower parents instead of undermining them as they try to make healthier choices for their families.

  Michelle Obama

  Fun, Kids, Goal

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• The kind of prayer I am talking about is a detached kind of prayer in which you are not looking for anything, just putting yourself in God's presence and sharing with him what you are feeling or what you are suffering. It is the kind of prayer in which you just open your heart to God and say, "God, I'm here. I'm not asking for anything, God. I just want to be near you and open my heart to you."

  Joseph Girzone

  Prayer, Heart, Talking

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• And that was what I was asking to happen and I was told that the indictment would be signed, but I was coming to the end of my one-year contract, I had to return to New Zealand for personal reasons.

  Tony Greig

  Years, Return, Would Be

  "Investigator details charges". "NBC News Investigates", www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2004.

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