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• My son's always showing me pictures of dinosaurs and asking me what their names are. I dont know so I make stuff up: That son is a thesaurus.

  Craig Ferguson

  Son, Names, Dinosaurs

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• Often what is nearest is hardest of all to see - try asking a fish to define water. Distance opens a door to revelation. When the first great distances of space were conquered by technology, a camera altered the human perspective on the Earth as radically as Galileo did when he proved the sun was the center of the universe. The ecology movement was born from a photographically altered consciousness.

  Vicki Goldberg

  Distance, Technology, Doors

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• Always think twice before asking anything of anyone that ends in the words, on your face.

  Dana Gould

  Thinking, Faces, Your Face

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• Please reduce the expectation in your tone when asking me how my day is going.

  Dov Davidoff

  Expectations, Tone, Please

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jun 23, 2011

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• My work from the last 25 years has been asking people to see differently.

  Nancy Burson

  Years, People, Lasts

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• The only thing I can hope the viewer will get from the work is something about the structure of the work. It would be asking too much, I think, for them to get my exact intention. But if - through the construct of language, the way things are juxtaposed - there is some sort of disruption of the way you would normally go about reaching photographic images... if that is happening, that's fine.

  Lorna Simpson

  Thinking, Too Much, Way

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• Photographers do themselves a disservice by talking too much about the equipment they use. Consequently people don't take them seriously as creators in their own right. When people talk to writers about their work, they ask about their ideas and inspirations. When they talk to photographers, they ask about what cameras or film they use. That's wrong - as wrong as asking a writer what pencil and laptop he uses.

  Peter Turnley

  Inspiration, Talking, Ideas

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• People are always asking me in interviews, 'What do you think of foreign affairs?' I just say, 'I've had a few.'

  Dolly Parton

  Thinking, People, Interviews

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• I would like to be writing more because people are constantly asking me questions, and I write down what they are asking me.

  Eartha Kitt

  Writing, People

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• Prayer is not a preparation for work, it IS work. Prayer is not a preparation for the battle, it IS the battle. Prayer is two-fold: definite asking and definite waiting to receive.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Two, Waiting

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• Upon my return from the army to Baltimore in the winter of 1777, I sat next to John Adams in Congress, and upon my whispering to him and asking him if he thought we should succeed in our struggle with Great Britain, he answered me, "Yes-if we fear God and repent of our sins."

  Benjamin Rush

  Struggle, Army, Winter

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• I learn so much from writing with other musicians, asking questions about their playing style and gear, and hanging out, too.

  Lisa Loeb

  Writing, Asking Questions, Style

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• It really depends on what the screenplay is asking of you, and what your responsibility is to that character. You have the author's intent to deal with, you have the filmmaker's vision, and then you have your own wants, desires and needs for the character. It's collaborative. But I knew, right off the bat, that there was no way to go into some sort of pink-haired, clown-nosed character with Ronald McDonald shoes.

  Johnny Depp

  Character, Responsibility, Shoes

  "Johnny Depp, Director Wally Pfister and Writer Jack Paglen Talk TRANSCENDENCE, Artificial Intelligence, the Frankenstein Archetype, BLACK MASS, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 17, 2014.

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• The obvious one, in a market system, in a really functioning one, whoever's making the decisions doesn't pay attention to what are called externalities, effects on others. I sell you a car, if our eyes are open we'll make a good deal for ourselves but we're not asking how it's going to affect her [over there.] It will, there'll be more congestion, gas prices will go up, there will be environmental effects and that multiplies over the whole population. Well, that's very serious.

  Noam Chomsky

  Eye, Car, Decision

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• I am asking the Congress, which represents the people, to declare a war on ISIS so that we can begin the process of excising that cancer and begin the healing process, and bring peace, prosperity, and safety back to America.

  Benjamin Carson

  War, Cancer, Healing

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• We need to engage with the Arab world.It is not a serious proposal to say that - to the people that you're asking for their support that they can't even come to the country to even engage in a dialogue with us.

  Jeb Bush

  Country, People, Support

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I think that in a family some are workers some are not. I certainly saw my mother work very hard and be in charge and never show any kind of fear about business deals. Her golden rule was you should never be embarrassed talking about money and asking for what you deserved. I take the same view.

  Anne Robinson

  Mother, Thinking, Business Deals

  "Anne Robinson: 'I was paid £300 a week for Points of View, now I'm worth £30m'". Interview with Roz Lewis, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 20, 2015.

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• And in some ways, to me, that's one of the inspiring and powerful things about the Great Migration itself. There was no leader, there was no one person who set the date who said, 'On this date, people will leave the South.' They left on their own accord for as many reasons as there are people who left. They made a choice that they were not going to live under the system into which they were born anymore and in some ways, it was the first step that the nation's servant class ever took without asking.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  Powerful, Class, People

  "Great Migration: The African-American Exodus North". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 13, 2010.

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• It's so much a part of me that it's almost hard to describe myself in the absence of it. I know that for me it means asking for guidance, and that in the toughest times there's a personal savior that I can rely on. And I'm very grateful to my parents for giving me that.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Grateful, Mean, Giving

  "Dr. Rice Makes a House Call". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• I put everything in God's hands, asking him to give me strength and understanding. I asked him to help me to be strong for my family and that he would continue to take care of us. One day, shortly after that, I woke up really inspired.

  Aaron Watson

  Strong, Hands, Giving

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• If you're asking me to compare myself to other people, I don't really know what other people are like.

  Jules Shear

  People, Compare, Knows

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• The conspiracy theory of society... comes from abandoning god and then asking: "Who is in his place"

  Karl Popper

  Conspiracy, Theory, Conspiracy Theory

  Karl Popper (2014). “Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge”, p.204, Routledge

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• The best results I have had in my life; the most enjoyable times, have all come from asking the simple question: 'What is the worst that could happen?'

  Tim Ferriss

  Simple, Results, Worst

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• If you get people asking the wrong questions, you don't have to worry about the answers.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  People, Worry, Answers

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• We need to pay attention to the questions non-Christians are asking, and the conversations that Christians are having.

  Mark Driscoll

  Christian, Needs, Attention

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