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• I mean, I would say I get five or six e-mails every day from people asking, "Is there going to be a Leprechaun 6?' It's probably the most asked question besides, 'Is there going to be a Willow II?

  Warwick Davis

  Mean, People, Mail

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 07, 2001.

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• What discord we should bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered. Then we should govern the world and not God. And do you think we should govern it better? It gives me only pain when I hear the long, wearisome petitions of people asking for they know not what. . . . Thanks-giving with a full heart-and the rest silence and submission to the divine will!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Prayer, Pain, Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

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• Prayer is not a way to get what we want to happen, like the remote control that comes with the television set. I think that prayer may be less about asking for the things we are attached to than it is about relinquishing our attachments in some way. It can take us beyond fear, which is an attachment, and beyond hope, which is another form of attachment. It can help us remember the nature of the world and the nature of life, not on an intellectual level but in a deep and experiential way. When we pray, we don't change the world, we change ourselves. We change our consciousness.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Prayer, Thinking, Attachment

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• The kind of prayer I am talking about is a detached kind of prayer in which you are not looking for anything, just putting yourself in God's presence and sharing with him what you are feeling or what you are suffering. It is the kind of prayer in which you just open your heart to God and say, "God, I'm here. I'm not asking for anything, God. I just want to be near you and open my heart to you."

  Joseph Girzone

  Prayer, Heart, Talking

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• One of life's fundamental truths states, "Ask and you shall receive." As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Kids, Rejection

  "'How Am I Doing?' The One Question That Can Change All Of Your Relationships" by Jack Canfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 8, 2009.

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• Who am I? is the only question worth asking and the only one never answered.

  Deepak Chopra

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from May 12, 2011

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• By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.

  Ian Mcewan

  People, Justice, Communism

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• Whenever you do something without asking yourself, "Why am I doing this?"-that is meaningless life... . The "why" of life makes it meaningful... . Only when an answer is given is one living life as a man.

  Hu Shih

  Meaningful, Live Life, Men

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• Nobody's going to tell me how to be different, so stop asking me. Stop asking me what two-plus-two is. Everybody knows two-plus-two is five.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Two, Different, Plus

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• My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.

  Chuck D

  Daughter, Artist, Humans

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• I grew up asking for everything under the sun for Christmas, but I knew I wasn't going to get it all.

  Faith Hill

  Sun, Grew Up, Grew

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• Asking someone to describe what something sounds like is like telling a blind person to guess what I look like.

  Chester Bennington

  Sound, Looks, Blind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If one of my boys was asking me if they should go into politics, I'd say there's only one reason to go into public life and that's to help people.

  Evan Bayh

  Boys, People, Helping

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• We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to other pressing issues. We sent it to under 100 friends and family, and within a week we had 100,000 people sign the petition.

  Joan Blades

  Moving, Issues, People

  "MoveOn as an Instrument of the People". Interview with Terrence McNally, www.alternet.org. June 24, 2004.

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• That's sort of like asking a parent who their favorite child is. It's very hard to determine. Sometimes I'll get feedback from somebody who liked this part of the show. Others like another part of the show.

  Lance Burton

  Children, Parent, Favorite Child

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• The office is the laboratory and meeting your users is like going into the field. You can't just stay in the lab. And it's not just asking users what they want, it's about seeing what they're doing.

  Brian Chesky

  Office, Want, Labs

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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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• By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question - 'Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?'

  Alastair Campbell

  Happiness, Taken, Mean

  "How I got happy and stayed grumpy" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2012.

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• I'm not asking people to feel sorry for me.

  Jack Abramoff

  Sorry, People, Feels

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• I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't.

  Joan Chen

  Believe, Giving, Advice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Like every other form of art, literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death. The only question worth asking about a story — or a poem, or a piece of sculpture, or a new concert hall — is, Is it dead or alive?

  Mavis Gallant

  Art, Life And Death, Sculpture

  "Mavis Gallant obituary" by Christopher Hawtree, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2014.

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• I love the combination of smartness, pain, and what one might call conscious postmodern trashiness in this book: a version of the erotic full of nervous tension which animates the sensuality, and also Zimroth's feeling for words, compressed, ironic, withholding, but also 'asking for it . . . the siege, the thrill, the battle fatigue.' A profoundly urban book, of harsh memory and fantasy, set in harsher reality.

  Alicia Ostriker

  Pain, Memories, Book

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• There are many types of preventive health care services that are covered, things like blood pressure medication, for example. And women are merely asking that their health be taken just as seriously.

  Sandra Fluke

  Taken, Blood, Example

  "CNN’s Will Cain Grills Sandra Fluke Over Contraception Op-Ed", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 13, 2012.

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• The smartest thing I did in law school: asking my future wife to go out dancing with me. The smartest thing I did when practicing law: quitting. The smartest thing I've done in writing: following my own head and writing what I wanted to write, and nothing but.

  Ben Fountain

  Writing, School, Law

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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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