Asking Quotes - Page 34

• I know the youth of India. They are not merely asking for things. The youth wants to stand of their own feet and live a life of pride and dignity.

  Narendra Modi

  Pride, Feet, India

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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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• Everyone is always asking me about clothes.

  Paul F. Tompkins

  Clothes

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I'm always asking people to do something in their mind [first]. So if they're gonna do one exercise, it would be to ask themselves what they want to change about themselves in the next 12 weeks. Once they solve that, the body will follow.

  Jack LaLanne

  Exercise, People, Mind

  Source: billphillipsnews.com

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• On the other end of the spectrum, we can't use this permission to sometimes say no and use it as a wand to wish away all our responsibilities. We also must remember not to use our "no" answers as a weapon. We can't turn into No! ninjas, karate-chopping anyone who even comes close to asking us for something.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Responsibility, Wish, Use

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• For me, the fiction writer's job is to take the small, stupid process of learning to use an iPhone - and suddenly you're the guy who's asking your daughter, "When I go on Facebook, can it see me?"

  George Saunders

  Daughter, Jobs, Stupid

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have met countless people who call themselves Christians who don't appear to have any living breathing vibrant connection with the resurrected Christ and I've met countless people from every religious background including atheists that tell me of their very personal and real experiences of the living Christ. I don't have people asking me why they should believe something - that's starting off on the wrong foot to say the least.

  Rob Bell

  Christian, Religious, Atheist

  Source: missionaryrenegade2013.blogspot.com

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• Every director is different and they all have different styles. I've worked with directors who were very specific and they gave a lot of direction. The one thing about Michael [Haneke]that I think is interesting is that he really has a reason for everything he's asking you. If you challenge it, he is open for discussion but he has a clear idea of what he wants with reasons why.

  Michael Pitt

  Thinking, Ideas, Interesting

  "Michael Pitt Plays Haneke's Games". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. March 20, 2008.

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• I don't have many friends so the phone doesn't ring and no one's asking me to go out and go dancing with them.

  Henry Rollins

  Phones, Dancing, Rings

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• If any dust of imperfection cling to your heart, be not troubled, but consume it immediately in the fire of divine love, and, sorrowfully asking forgiveness, continue to live in peace.

  Paul of the Cross

  Forgiveness, Heart, Fire

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• In all things that you find in the Holy Scriptures, seek out the purpose of the words, that you may enter into the depth of the thoughts of the saints and understand them with greater exactness. Do not approach the reading of the Divine Scriptures without prayer and asking the help of God. Consider prayer to be the key to the true understanding of that which is said in the Holy Scriptures.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Increasingly developing countries are asking for aid to help deal with the consequences of climate change, which we don't want to give.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Country, Giving, Climate

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Social media is great because you can get information out there quick or you can use it as a ministry tool, but when you're on it all the time and you're not spending time with people and you're not sitting there looking at someone in the eyes and asking, "How are you doing?" that's when it's out of balance.

  Jeremy Camp

  Eye, Media, People

  "A conversation with award-winning recording artist Jeremy Camp". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• During World War II, Joseph Stalin was once asked by an American writer, according to Professor Dean Russell, how he could justify conscripting all the property of all the people for use by the government to fight the war. Stalin answered by asking why they considered it more immoral and illogical to conscript lifeless property than to conscript life itself, as was being done in the United States and all other capitalistic countries. His American challenger had no answer, because there was no answer.

  Ron Paul

  Country, War, Fighting

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