Asking Quotes - Page 37

• You can't learn the truth about a man's intentions by asking him.

  Marcel Proust

  Men, Intention

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• And in your new lives you'll have to live entirely for that one sensation-that of imminent truth. And you're going to have to holler for it, steal for it, beg for it-and you're never to stop asking questions about it twenty-four hours a day, the rest of your life.

  Douglas Coupland

  Asking Questions, Twenties, New Life

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• There was a time in South Africa that people would put flaming tires around peoples' necks if they dis-sented. And in some ways the fear is that you will be necklaced here, you will have a flaming tire of lack of patriotism put around your neck. Now it is that fear that keeps journalists from asking the toughest of the tough questions... And again, I am humbled to say, I do not except myself from this criticism.

  Dan Rather

  Tough Questions, People, Criticism

  "Veteran CBS News Anchor Dan Rather Speaks Out on BBC Newsnight Tonight". www.bbc.co.uk. May 16, 2002.

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• Hollywood is just a bunch of people going around in Learjets to other people asking them if they've got any money? Well, they might have if they didn't spend it all on jets.

  John Cusack

  People, Hollywood, Might

  "John Cusack: 'I'm not a scenester. I'm out for a few months, then I disappear", www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2012.

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• They're not trying to prevent Hollywood from making movies. They're asking that the most powerful image-building machinery in the world stop grinding out killer dykes and twisted homo sex fiends as if sexual orientation had anything to do with criminal behavior.

  Roger Ebert

  Sex, Powerful, Trying

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• There is no such thing as a dumb question but there is such a thing as a dumb person asking a question.

  Behdad Sami

  Dumb, Dumb Questions, Persons

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• As an American citizen, I'm not asking for any special treatment - the only thing I ask and want is to be treated just like an Illegal Alien.

  Howie Carr

  Special, Citizens, Want

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• Don't make your audience play Jeopardy. Giving your answer before asking the question puts your audience at a disadvantage. It will also reveal your biases. Make it clear what question you are trying to answer first. Then allow your audience to engage in answering the question too.

  John Fairclough

  Play, Giving, Trying

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• Instead of asking what it feels like to follow God or be used by God, we should be asking who God is, and whether we really know Him. Everything else will take care of itself.

  Donald Miller

  Care, Who God Is, Used

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• Being a male capable of grunting, sweating, and not asking for directions, but not yet having conqured a women...in our culture, that wasn't manhood, that was dorksville!

  Eric Ludy

  Males, Culture, Sweating

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• U.N. weapons inspectors found empty chemical warheads in Iraq. So, the question everyone is asking now is how did Sean Penn miss this?

  Jay Leno

  Iraq, Missing, Weapons

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• Fatherhood is asking your son to make up a name rather than tell anybody who he is.

  Bill Cosby

  Son, Names, Fatherhood

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• Simon Peter, who embarrassed the other disciples at the Last Supper by asking for seconds. Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Dinner, Lasts, Peter

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• A man is hit by a car while crossing a Beverly Hills street. A woman rushes to him and cradles his head in her lap, asking, Are you comfortable? The man answers, I make a nice living.

  Milton Berle

  Nice, Men, Car

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• The rebel army in Libya is just like 1,000 guys in Toyota trucks. The world is asking the question; can 1000 anti-government guys in pick-up trucks with small arms, take over a country of millions? To which I say, ask the Teabaggers.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Army, Government

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• That's like asking you to pick your favorite child... I do however, think Bird on a Wire was one of my finest works. Oscar caliber.

  Mel Gibson

  Children, Thinking, Bird

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• I enjoy fame except when I'm with my daughter. Kids stop me all the time and I don't want her to be jealous of the attention. Also, sometimes I just want to be left alone and I refuse to make rubber faces. That's when they start asking, What's the matter, man, don't you like your job? I say, Yeah, I like my job. But I also like having sex, and I'm not going to do that in front of you either.

  Jim Carrey

  Daughter, Jobs, Sex

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• Do you have any Greek in you? That was just a tactful way of asking if you're pregnant. If you're not, then let's break up.

  Demetri Martin

  Greek, Way, Break

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• ...it is sensible to begin by asking the beginning questions, why imagine power in the first place, and what is the relationship between one's motive for imagining power and the image one ends up with.

  Edward Said

  Firsts, Imagine, Ends

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• I remember asking my dad, "Why didn't you ever move to the States? You probably could have made a lot more money." My dad said, "Because I have an obligation to give back." I always admired him for that.

  Will Arnett

  Dad, Moving, Giving

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• [Revealing character] can't be done by pushing the person into position or arranging his head at a certain angle. It must be accomplished by provoking the victim, amusing him with jokes, lulling him with silence, or asking impertinent questions which his best friend would be afraid to voice.

  Philippe Halsman

  Character, Voice, Silence

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• Because I've always aspired to direct and produce, I've literally worked with about 200 directors and countless producers, so what I appreciate is how, through osmosis and through actually asking questions and through people offering wisdom, there's a lot in there.

  Malik Yoba

  Asking Questions, Offering, Osmosis

  Source: collider.com

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• Nowadays, especially in big commercial films it's much easier for the audience, and they tend to get spoonfed. It's much more interesting to me, people leave the theater and they start asking themselves questions and find their own moral compass about what these characters have been doing.

  Michael Fassbender

  Character, People, Interesting

  "January Jones, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Kevin Bacon, Zoë Kravitz, Rose Byrne & Lucas Till Talk X-MEN: FIRST CLASS". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. June 1, 2011.

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• I'm not looking for answers when I show up to the set. I'm just asking the questions, over and over.

  Timothy Olyphant

  Answers, Shows

  "Timothy Olyphant Interview JUSTIFIED Season Two". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 10, 2011.

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• The different colors [of water] again refer to the fact that those little jacks, if you want to call them jacks, those little pyramids, can be packed together in all different ways. And depending on how they're packed together.If you Google blue ice, as I did just while your caller was asking his question, you see some beautiful pictures of ice covering a lake.

  Ira Flatow

  Beautiful, Lakes, Blue

  Source: www.npr.org

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