Asking Quotes - Page 12

• 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 had a vague idea of the song's impact in the '60s, but that was tempered by the hate mail and threats I was receiving. It was only about ten years ago, when I finally put it back in my show because so many people were asking for it, that I understood 'Society's Child' real impact.

  Janis Ian

  Song, Children, Hate

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• My mother kept asking me, "When are you going to do a gospel album?" And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.

  Alan Jackson

  Mom, Mother, Albums

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

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• I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

  Bill James

  Knowing, Asking Questions, Answers

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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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• You're trying to find new ideas in people. I always think to myself, what question I am least comfortable asking the person? And then I make sure I ask it early in the interview.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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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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• Any actress will tell you - it's really hard. If you're not an A-list Hollywood movie star, if you're in the middle, there are people who assume you wouldn't do certain things without even asking you, when actually you probably would. And there are people who always think you are busy doing something else.

  Martine McCutcheon

  Stars, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.

  Nelson A. Miles

  Past, Years, Fifty

  Nelson A. Miles (1992). “Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire”, p.345, U of Nebraska Press

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• Adolescence begins when children stop asking questions-because they know all the answers.

  Evan Esar

  Funny, Children, Asking Questions

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• I don't like swearing on the air. As a matter of fact, I'm not a prude, but I go to the movies and then wonder - I asked myself the same question, and I watch HBO and some of the comedy stuff, and I'm constantly asking myself, why have we gone there? It seems like it's unfortunate. It's so cheap.

  Brian Lamb

  Hbo, Air, Matter

  "Lamb looks back on C-SPAN" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. March 22, 2012.

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• You have this impression from England that New Yorkers can be quite aggressive, but certainly the people that I've bumped into and the friends I've made here don't seem that way. Just walking down the street and asking for directions, people seem to be very helpful and happy to help.

  Archie Panjabi

  People, Way, England

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

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• There are directors who, their direction is high, but then when you challenge it, it crumbles. They can't back up what they're asking.

  Michael Pitt

  Challenges, Directors

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• I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone.

  Trevor Phillips

  Asking Questions, Has Beens, Asks

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• The thing that drives me crazy is when comics say 'I have low self-esteem.' No you don't. You're standing on stage asking people to pay. You don't play an instrument. You want people to pay to hear what's in your mind. You don't have low self-esteem. You might have other problems.

  Colin Quinn

  Crazy, Self Esteem, Play

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• Customers don't know what they want. There's plenty of good psychology research that shows that people are not able to accurately predict how they would behave in the future. So asking them, 'Would you buy my product if it had these three features?' or 'How would you react if we changed our product this way?' is a waste of time. They don't know.

  Eric Ries

  People, Psychology, Want

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• When we were in the design studio I always was pretending like I was in a closet asking my friend before I step out into the world what do I look like? And everybody wants that honest friend before they go and go to dinner or go to an event.

  Nicole Richie

  Design, Events, Looks

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• I like Betsy Ross as a model, too, the quilting bee, sitting around with your friends making art, asking what they think, so that you get the benefit of everyone's opinions and so it's not just about you in your you-dom.

  Kiki Smith

  Art, Thinking, Bees

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• The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what your mind does. What it does is become discontent with that-which-is. A desire arises, you satisfy that desire, and another arises in its place.

  George Saunders

  Moving, Eye, Mind

  George Saunders (2012). “The Brain-Dead Megaphone”, p.214, A&C Black

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• Be careful of someone who starts asking a lot of questions about you. Start asking a lot of questions about them. Turn it around.

  Frederick Lenz

  Be Careful, Careful, Turns

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• Clark, what in your honest opinion is the right standard for determining conduct? Is the only right standard for everyone, the probable action of Jesus Christ? Would you say that the highest, best law for a man to live by was contained in asking the question 'What would Jesus do?' And then doing it regardless of results? In other words, do you think men everywhere ought to follow Jesus' example as closely as they can in their daily lives?

  Charles Sheldon

  Jesus, Men, Thinking

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• Maybe if you stopped asking "why" all the time, you might be happy. Leave it alone, you know? Life is happy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Asking Why

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• I checked to see if there’d been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what Cleopatra would have read, asking myself, “What can we know about her education?” It turns out to be a very great deal, and bizarrely, no one had written about that before.

  Stacy Schiff

  Book, Lasts, Deals

  Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. November 2, 2010.

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• My children are the focal point of my life. I was asking for a little more time to spend with them.

  Hunter Tylo

  Children, Littles, More Time

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