Asking Quotes - Page 19

• fashion has always been a little slow in accommodating large women. ... We're not asking for philanthropy here. Wake up, we're fat, we like nice clothes, and we've got cash.

  Camryn Manheim

  Fashion, Nice, Clothes

  Camryn Manheim (1999). “Wake Up, I'm Fat!”, Broadway

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• It is a rule of mine never to ask unsolicited questions of people over twenty-one. I am only giving them the option of lying if they choose to. They would tell me the truth without my asking if they wanted me to know. To me that's fair enough.

  Dorothy West

  Lying, People, Giving

  Dorothy West (1996). “The Richer, the Poorer: Stories, Sketches, and Reminiscences”, Anchor

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• For many people, feminism is one of those words of which, as St. Augustine said about time, they know the meaning as long as no one is asking.

  Katha Pollitt

  Long, People, Feminism

  Katha Pollitt (1995). “Reasonable creatures: essays on women and feminism”

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• The aboriginal peoples of Australia illustrate the conflict between technology and the natural world succinctly, by asking, 'What will you do when the clever men destroy your water?' That, in truth, is what the world is coming to.

  Winona LaDuke

  Clever, Technology, Men

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• If you tell someone a secret, and ask them to keep it secret, you are asking them to display a discretion you are unable to display yourself.

  Jill Paton Walsh

  Secret, Asks, Ifs

  Jill Paton Walsh (2011). “The Attenbury Emeralds: The New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery”, p.98, Macmillan

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• If you want to survive in this world, you need to stop asking why people work together, and just start working together.

  Dan Wells

  Asking Why, People, Working Together

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• People kept asking, Whats your market? Ive got no idea at all other than me, an eleven year old kid in a 56-year-old body. But there are a lot of us out there.

  Graeme Base

  Kids, Years, Ideas

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• Congress hasn't declared war on the countries - the majority of them are our allies - but without asking for public permission, NSA is running network operations against them that affect millions of innocent people. And for what? So we can have secret access to a computer in a country we're not even fighting?

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Running, War

  "Edward Snowden: NSA whistleblower answers reader questions". www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2013.

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• I'm asking you not to be color blind, but to be color brave.

  Mellody Hobson

  Color, Brave, Blind

  "Color blind or color brave?". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2014.

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• When you are engaged in both trying to kill and capture the enemy and get support from the local population, you have to be always asking yourself, "Is what I'm doing keeping that balance?"

  Hillary Clinton

  Support, Enemy, Balance

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Hanks' ideology first came into our zone shortly after 9/11, when he criticized me for asking Hollywood telethon stars to become more aggressive in getting the money to 9/11 families.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Stars, Hollywood, Firsts

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Food is one of my favourite things. Though I certainly know lots of people who happen to be happily married who don't have food play the role in it that it plays in my life. And I don't know how they do it, and frankly I feel so bad for them because I just love food and one of my favourite things is asking, "What do we want for dinner? What do we feel like eating?" That wonderful negotiation that goes on several times a week about what "we" feel like.

  Nora Ephron

  Play, People, Roles

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• A lot of my books deal with very controversial issues that most people often don't want to talk about, issues that, in my country, are more likely to get put under the carpet than get discussed. And when you talk about moral conundrums, about shades of gray, what you're doing is asking the people who want the world to be black and white to realize instead that maybe it's all right if it isn't. I know you'll learn something picking up my books, but my goal as a writer is not to teach you but to make you ask more questions.

  Steven Tyler

  Country, Book, Black And White

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• Despite the fact that Starbucks has grown to be a large company. We've always played music in our stores and has always acted as an opportunity to create a mood in our stores. And customers started asking, "What song are you playing and can I buy that?" . And we said "No." And that was kind of the catalyst for beginning to look at music. We started out with our own compilations and after the success of that. We had the courage to say, "Let's produce our own record." and the first record was with Ray Charles before he unfortunately passed away.

  Howard Schultz

  Song, Opportunity, Facts

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• Asking the questions - that's what changes lives. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry. And you cannot believe the old thoughts again.

  Byron Katie

  Life Changing, Believe, Cells

  "The Turnaround: A Byron Katie Interview" by Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. December 3, 2013.

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• A long while ago an eager group of reformers wrote to me asking if I could suggest anything that would improve the morals of the American people. I replied that the trouble with the American people in general was not lack of morals but lack of brains.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Long, People, Brain

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• it was a sly trick of God's to give a man work to do - it kept him from asking questions that God couldn't answer.

  Martha Ostenso

  Work, Men, Asking Questions

  Martha Ostenso (1929). “The Young May Moon”

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• a good part of the trick to being a first-rate scientist is in asking the right questions or asking them in ways that make it possible to find answers.

  Anne Roe

  Science, Answers, Way

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• I am running because I love my country and Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama are ruining it. It is time to take our country back and I am asking you to join me in this fight.

  Scott Ashjian

  Running, Country, Fighting

  "Critics Play Whack-a-Mole With Tea Party of Nevada Candidate". Las Vegas Review-Journal, March 23, 2010.

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• Asking what the question is, and why the question is asked, is always asking a pertinent question.

  Raymond Geuss

  Pertinent Questions, Pertinent

  Raymond Geuss (2008). “Philosophy and Real Politics”, p.17, Princeton University Press

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• Never hesitate to show your own staff that you need help. They need to be reminded how important they are to the process. In life and in business, we rely on each other to be responsible for individual tasks that benefit everyone. People sometimes forget how much interdependence there really is in a successful business. Learn the art of asking for help to empower and motivate others, and you will have learned a very powerful management strategy.

  Georgette Mosbacher

  Art, Powerful, Successful

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• In the end, raising money is basically a matter of going out there and asking. There are no shortcuts.

  Georgette Mosbacher

  Money, Going Out, Matter

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• The significant mistake of the traditionalists is they require the people to start where the church is instead of the church starting where the people are. Innovators begin by asking, 'What do we need to do to reach the people where they are?'

  Leith Anderson

  Mistake, People, Church

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• I began by asking myself, “What do I want out of life?” And the answer was happiness. Investigating further, I went into the moment when I was feeling happiest. I discovered something which to me was startling at the time. It was when I was loving that I was happiest. That happiness equated to my capacity to love rather than to being loved. That was a starting point.

  Lester Levenson

  Capacity To Love, Feelings, Answers

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• Let's never stop asking questions. Questions give us a harbor to remember where we once lived mentally. They remind us of the possibilities that can be born out of thoughts and musings, and they link together pattern that define our lives.

  Luci Swindoll

  Asking Questions, Giving, Together

  Luci Swindoll (2003). “I Married Adventure”, p.121, Thomas Nelson Inc

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