Asking Quotes - Page 27

• Movies and life become a little more symmetrical when you start asking for and looking for connections.

  Josh Lucas

  Connections, Littles, Symmetrical

  "Josh Lucas on American Psycho, Russell Crowe, and the disastrous Poseidon set". Interview with Sam Fragoso, film.avclub.com. August 27, 2015.

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• When you see magazine articles and you go, 'Oh my God, that one looks so old or look how fat someone is' it has very little to do with the person in question and more to do with the person who's asking the question. People don't want to believe their own mortality.

  RuPaul

  Believe, People, Looks

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• The fan mail I get from kids are asking me questions which they do not ask their mothers and fathers. Because if they had, why write to me, a perfect stranger?

  Maurice Sendak

  Mother, Father, Writing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Hollywood called me, asking me, "How much to do a movie with Farrah Fawcett?" "$50,000" They called back, "How about $20,000?" I said, "I'll pay it!"

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Hollywood

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• I'm against suppression of pornography. If you suppress guns - yes; if you want to suppress poverty - yes. These are the obscenities, the real brutalization of people. I am almost more outraged by ads for blue jeans or cars that sort of blatantly depict women not only as sex objects, but women that look younger than the age of consent, looking like they've just been raped or asking to be raped-utterly passive sex objects.

  Betty Friedan

  Sex, Real, Gun

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• You can't criticize Bob Dylan's singing. You have to respect Billy Joel as a brilliant poet. You can't tell me there's a better rock band ever than Led Zeppelin. And if you speak during the Eagles' "Last Resort," we're done. I'm just asking for seven minutes. This stuff really matters, you know.

  Charlie Sheen

  Eagles, Rocks, Singing

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• People are always asking me to do Shakespeare - at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It's like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It's great therapy.

  Al Pacino

  Home, College, People

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders.

  Bob Inglis

  Funny, Humor, Term Limits

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• Every problem in history is due to men, so I'm basically asking for humanity to nest itself in a feminine culture, probably for the next 1,000 years.

  Patch Adams

  Men, Years, Humanity

  Source: www.natureandhealth.com.au

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• The inspiration for my novels comes from the depths of a creative well, based on asking myself questions over and over. I try to write something different each time I sit down to write; I try to surprise the readers.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Inspiration, Writing, Creative

  Source: www.indyweek.com

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• Anything you say from your heart to God is a prayer. But "why" is rarely a useful question. When Job keeps asking God why he has had such loss and suffering, God says, "You wouldn't understand." I always want to know why, and I almost never have a good answer.

  Anne Lamott

  Jobs, Prayer, Heart

  "Interview with Anne Lamott, Author of Help, Thanks, Wow". Interview with Jana Llewellyn, www.friendsjournal.org. January 30, 2013.

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• I love interaction with audiences. If were my choice, I would spend most of my time interacting with audiences. Walking around and asking them to challenge me.

  Stephen Covey

  Choices, Challenges, Audience

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• People have to change their concepts of aging and I am not asking them to do so based on some fanciful notion, but on scientific fact.

  Deepak Chopra

  People, Facts, Aging

  Source: www.peopleandpossibilities.com

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• The idea of a government is to create an ordered, willing work force where there's no trouble. I think idlers are generally seen as potentially dangerous because they're asking questions.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Thinking, Asking Questions, Government

  "How To Be Idle: An Interview with Tom Hodgkinson". Interview with Katie Renz, www.motherjones.com. June 8, 2005.

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• Canadians are always asking the questions the rest of us are afraid to ask.

  Tucker Carlson

  Asks

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. December 6, 2005.

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• A lot of people think that Jesus is coming back. That's fine, it's your right. But you know, I live in New York, and I think he's running a little late. I'm asking myself, 'Alright, what happens if Jesus comes back tomorrow? What - does he make rounds to churches?' 'OK, everyone who's been good, buses leave in 10 minutes. I'll meet you in front of the post office. I gotta go. Oh, don't tell the Jews I'm back.'

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Running, Jesus

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• You read the pragmatists and all you know is: not Descartes, not Kant, not Plato. It's like aspirin. You can't use aspirin to give yourself power, you take it to get rid of headaches. In that way, pragmatism is a philosophical therapy. It helps you stop asking the unhelpful questions.

  Richard Rorty

  Plato, Philosophical, Giving

  Interview with Gideon Lewis-Kraus, believermag.com. June 1, 2003.

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• At the start of any program, asking questions is the most important part of the process. If you get [the customer's] requirements wrong, then you don't have a successful product.

  Joe Sutter

  Successful, Asking Questions, Important

  Source: archive.is

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• I get some female attention from fans, but mostly it's people asking for advice about a situation with their ex or their boyfriend, so it's not all love letters and fan mail!

  Matthew Hussey

  People, Advice, Fans

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• For me, being vulnerable is asking for help from other people whatever it may be.

  Mason Jennings

  Asking For Help, People, May

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013.

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• We should interact with legal reform tactically, knowing that it will not meet our ultimate goals but asking whether there are ways that engaging with particular reforms might benefit our work and help reduce certain harms or dangers.

  Dean Spade

  Knowing, Goal, Reform

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• I'm always trying to ask myself both "Who am I as an individual?" and "What are the cultural forces that have made me the person that I am?" How can I understand myself as a cultural creature as well as an individual? I'm really obsessed with that question, and always asking my students to consider it.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Always Trying, Students, Individual

  Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

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• I think we need to think about Islamic tradition as a way of asking questions that cut across (and transgress) the assumptions of a purely secular world in which we already know how things stand for individual subjects as well as for societies.

  Talal Asad

  Islamic, Cutting, Thinking

  "Do Muslims Belong in the West? An Interview with Talal Asad". Interview with Hasan Azad, www.eutopiainstitute.org. February 13, 2015.

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• I think writers can get too attached to these worlds they create, these characters they make real, so that, instead of ending the story where the story's asking to end, they draw it out, unable to let go.

  Stephen Graham Jones

  Letting Go, Real, Character

  Source: slushpile.net

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• As your life goes on you should gain a deeper understanding of the world and the people moving through it; but that might be asking too much.

  James Scott

  Moving, People, Understanding

  "James Scott’s Violent Landscape". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2014.

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