Asking Quotes - Page 16

• When you're asking someone for assistance, make it as easy as possible for them to say "no" to you. You don't want someone helping you who doesn't really want to.

  Raymond Arroyo

  Want, Helping, Easy

  "The Power of 'No'" by Raymond Arroyo, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2012.

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• I get a lot of letters from introverts asking how they can meet people. The key is to make sure that you are doing things you enjoy.

  Susan Cain

  Keys, People, Letters

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• You know what I have noticed? And this is really sad. Flying first class is less scary than flying coach. They speak to you and they're so nice to you and they want to help you and they know you want a drink before the plane takes off. And they bring it to you without asking. If you're sitting in coach and hoping for a drink, good luck.

  Hope Davis

  Nice, Good Luck, Class

  "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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• I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and fourth time. I admire her great courage in leaving so much unsaid and asking the reader to really engage her brain.

  Monica Ali

  Leaving, Brain, Demand

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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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• I'm asking Congress to pass my Zero Down Payment Initiative. We should remove the 3 percent down payment rule for first time home buyers with FHA-insured mortgages.

  George W. Bush

  Zero, Home, Firsts

  President's Remarks to the National Association of Home Builders, Columbus, Ohio, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. October 02, 2004.

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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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• 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 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'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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I'm an entertainer and I entertain people and they entertain me back by asking questions. And some of them I answer.

  Carl Reiner

  Asking Questions, People, Answers

  "Carl Reiner on writing a children's book, tweeting, and joking around with Mel Brooks". Interview with Katherine Brodsky, tv.avclub.com. June 23, 2015.

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• I remember Mick Jagger asking me 'hey, how do you guys feel about us coming over here and taking all the play from you guys?' I said 'Well, in a way, you have eliminated all my competition.

  Bobby Vinton

  Play, Guy, Competition

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• Ever since I'm done with Zim everyone thinks that I'm going to go back to comics. I've been flooded with emails asking me if I'm working on the new Johnny over and over again.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Thinking, Email, Done

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• Retirement is not a dirty word, I am just enjoying what I am doing. If they want me to retire, then stop asking me. Ask and I will say yes unless it is something I really don't like.

  Betty White

  Retirement, Dirty, Want

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