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• When there's a terrible murder people who are interviewed say, 'This has always been a quiet neighborhood.' That is so dumb and uninformed! The earth is not a quiet neighborhood. There isn't anyplace that's a quiet neighborhood. People are asking themselves how to stay neat in the cyclone.

  Paula Fox

  People, Dumb, Earth

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• You are asking yourself, as all of us must: 'Who am I?' . . . 'Where am I?' . . . 'Whence do I go?' The process of enlightenment is usually slow. But, in the end, our seeking always brings a finding. These great mysteries are, after all, enshrined in complete simplicity.

  Bill W.

  Simplicity, Enlightenment, Mystery

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Keep quiet and say one's prayers-certainly not merely the best, but the only things to do if one would be truly happy; but, ashamed of asking when I have received so much, the only form of prayer I would use would be a form of thanksgiving.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Prayer, Use, Would Be

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth von Arnim (Illustrated)”, p.164, Delphi Classics

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• Im like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, Im still going to be asking for more time two days before its due.

  Darren Criss

  Writing, Years, Two

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• My mum said she remembers me asking her if she'd take me to ballet lessons when I was about two and a half. She said I could barely speak, and yet was asking for ballet lessons.

  Joanne Froggatt

  Two, Ballet, Half

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• I'm friends with Taylor Swift, and I am tired of people asking me questions about our friendship. When I post a picture of us on Instagram, I'm posting a picture of me and my friend.

  Sarah Hyland

  Tired, People, Instagram

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• People were always asking me who I wanted to tour with, and I always said Jason Aldean or Brad Paisley.

  Jana Kramer

  People, Jason, Paisley

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When we see a special reformer we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your own virtue? Is virtue piecemeal?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Special, Philanthropy, Virtue

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• My biggest fear is doing the same things 10 years from now. That would be a failure. It's something you have to constantly reassess, and asking yourself what you are going to do next makes it a good, long full journey.

  George Clooney

  Journey, Years, Long

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• Asking An Angel To Blow Kisses You Way, Hoping To Lighten & Brighten Your Day.

  Tom Baker

  Angel, Kissing, Blow

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• I had been asking the universe and God to send me a way for me to help me. Show business has been so wonderful to me, and it came in the form of that. Its just so funny how things come into your life, and if you take a chance on them, it might give you a brand new life.

  Louie Anderson

  Giving, Might, Way

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• Telling me to relax or smile when I'm angry is like bringing a birthday cake into an ape sanctuary. You're just asking to get your nose and genitals bitten off.

  Amy Poehler

  Cake, Relax, Apes

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.179, Pan Macmillan

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• It didn't take me very long to realize that modeling wasn't very satisfying. I was always asking people, "How are you going to set up this shot? How will it be lit?" And they'd say, "Stop. Just pose." I had a problem with that.

  Shay Mitchell

  Long, People, Problem

  "Shay Mitchell on Standing Out in Hollywood". Interview with Lauren Waterman, www.teenvogue.com. April 2013.

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