Asking Quotes - Page 21

• I love going out and it is a bit sad when the photographers stop asking you for your picture.

  Alice Evans

  Going Out, Photographer, Bits

  "Meet La Belle Anglaise" By Anna Pursglove, Evening Standard, December 15, 2000.

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• As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you're abandoning the basic assumption of any true culture, that education is worth while for its own sake.

  Ann Bridge

  Education, Sake, Culture

  Ann Bridge (2013). “Singing Waters”, p.198, A&C Black

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• My salary situation at 'Morning Joe' wasn't right. I made five attempts to fix it, then realized I'd made the same mistake every time: I apologised for asking.

  Mika Brzezinski

  Morning, Mistake, Salary

  "Mika Brzezinski Speaks: How Getting Fired Saved My Career". Interview with Anna Maltby, www.marieclaire.com. January 28, 2011.

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• When I was in my early twenties, my mom started repeating things, asking the same questions, telling the same stories. It was like, Oh, God, this is not right. When I was 25, my brother and I finally told our dad we had to take her to the doctor.

  Lauren Miller

  Mom, Brother, Dad

  "Seth Rogen and Wife, Lauren Miller, Take on Alzheimer's". Interview with Ashley Ross, www.shape.com.

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• When I was on The View, Barbara Walters was asking me about the blood and stuff, and I said, 'Well, you know, that's a staple of Japanese cinema.' And then she came back, 'But this is America.' And I go, 'I don't make movies for America. I make movies for planet Earth.'

  Quentin Tarantino

  Views, Blood, America

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• I like being a consumer. I'll do collabs with brands I like, only because I would like something free to wear. But I don't want people to dress like me, which is what you're asking when you create a brand. The fashion industry's just a super-duper headache.

  Kid Cudi

  Fashion, People, Dresses

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• I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied - about so many things, about injustice, about the way the world works - and in some ways, my dissatisfaction drives my storytelling.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Believe, Asking Questions, Sake

  "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Continental Divides". Interview with Joseph Klarl, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 14, 2013.

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• All I am asking is that we follow the golden rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." This is fundamentally a moral issue, not an economic issue. Given what we know now, it is simply unethical to impose risk of grave damage on future generations just so that we can have a few more consumer products today.

  Ken Caldeira

  Issues, Risk, Growth

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• Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can, if they like, encroach, is far greater, for the weaker are always asking for equality and justice, but the stronger care for none of these things.

  Aristotle

  Justice, Stronger, Care

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3104, Delphi Classics

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• I am not asking for 60 months to sit and enjoy power, but to be the Chowkidaar of the country.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Democracy, India

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• Asking for help with shame says:
  You have the power over me.
  Asking with condescension says:
  I have the power over you.
  But asking for help with gratitude says:
  We have the power to help each other.

  Amanda Palmer

  Gratitude, Asking For Help, Over You

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• American culture in particular has instilled in us the bizarre notion that to ask for help amounts to an admission of failure. But some of the most powerful, successful, admired people in the world seem, to me, to have something in common: they ask constantly, creatively, compassionately, and gracefully. And to be sure: when you ask, there's always the possibility of a no on the other side of the request. If we don't allow for that no, we're not actually asking, we're either begging or demanding. But it is the fear of the no that keeps so many of our mouths sewn tightly shut.

  Amanda Palmer

  Powerful, Successful, People

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• Teenagers are a great audience and they are fearless about asking what they want to know.

  Sarah Dessen

  Teenager, Fearless, Want

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• I'm constantly asking for alternative views on most things that come to me.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Views, Alternatives

  "Wolfowitz Elected 10th President of the World Bank". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 31, 2005.

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• In the spiritual lore of India there is a story that the Lord whispered only one word in our ears when he sent us into the world: 'Give.' Give freely of your time, your talent, your resources; give without asking for anything in return. This is the secret of living in joy and security.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Spiritual, Giving, Joy

  Eknath Easwaran (1979). “Like a Thousand Suns: The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Volume II”, p.186, Nilgiri Press

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• Complexity is looking at interacting elements and asking how they form patterns and how the patterns unfold. It's important to point out that the patterns may never be finished. They're open-ended. In standard science this hit some things that most scientists have a negative reaction to. Science doesn't like perpetual novelty.

  W. Brian Arthur

  Important, Negative, Elements

  "Coming from Your Inner Self". www.presencing.org. April 16, 1999.

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• Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.

  Bertrand Russell

  Lying, Philosophy, Asking Questions

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Problems of Philosophy”, p.18, Bertrand Russell

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• Democracy means doing whatever you want without asking permission of anybody but your boss, your doctor, your lawyer, your landlord, your bank, your city, your state and federal authorities, and your wife and children.

  Sam Levenson

  Children, Mean, Doctors

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• Asking Senator Fulbright's advice on foreign policy is like asking the Boston Strangler to massage your neck.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Boston, Advice, Massage

  Spiro T. Agnew (1970). “The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word”, Pelican Publishing Company

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• I thought we'd be discussing about me not leaving Philadelphia and they just kept asking me about the practice, so I lost it.

  Allen Iverson

  Basketball, Practice, Nba

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• The whole acting and Hollywood [thing], it's just work to me. Stand-up comedy ruins you so badly for doing television. I don't really need to be known anymore than I am. The slight sliver of fame I do have is hard to deal with. If I was actually well-known - I don't even know what to say to people who are at my show when I walk into the venue, much less having waitresses in diners asking for my autograph.

  Doug Stanhope

  People, Acting, Ruins

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you're asking if I would be foolish enough, or insulting enough, to write about people in my life that I respect and sell it to the masses as a "break-up song," I can't imagine doing that to people I love.

  Jack White

  Song, Writing, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The most creative and most periods of my life that were, had the most growth, were the ones where I was perceived to be failing. Perceived success is a, is really hard 'cause it doesn't really, it's not asking you to grow, see failure is asking you to grow.

  Ethan Hawke

  Creative, Growth, Causes

  "Ethan Hawke on Stage Fright, Denzel Washington: "Don't F - With Him, Man" (Q&A)". "The Hollywood Masters" with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 8, 2015.

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• Strike is always a form of direct action. With the strike, too, you are not asking government to make things easier for you by passing legislation, you are taking a direct action against the employer.

  Howard Zinn

  Direct Action, Government, Strikes

  "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.

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• Since the world began has any man ever been able to know what would happen tomorrow? The world of men is today. I'm asking you to open your heart today. Tomorrow belongs to Allah.

  Paul Bowles

  Heart, Men, World

  Paul Bowles (1955). “The Spider's House”

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