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• People always ask me, how do you do everything you do?

  Susan Lucci

  People, Ask Me

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• If anybody asks me to do a job, I say, 'Yes.' I've said yes to everything.

  Sylvester McCoy

  Jobs, Said, Ask Me

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• When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.

  Tamara Mellon

  Fashion, Careers, Want

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• If you ask around, it's pretty easy to find someone who has a bank account overdraft horror story to tell.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Horror Stories, Easy, Bank Accounts

  "Deceptive Overdraft Fees: There Ought to Be a Law!" by Carolyn Maloney, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2013.

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• If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were.

  Denise Mina

  Jobs, School, Law

  "Probing The Psyche Of Glasgow's Mean Streets". "Morning Edition" with Vicki Barker, www.npr.org. August 11, 2008.

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• It is a very unusual sector and the one thing I would ask of them is to understand that for most of them one-third of their films are being financed by the taxpayer and that carries huge accountability and responsibility.

  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

  Responsibility, Accountability, Film

  "New tax break will help British film-makers take on Hollywood" by Dan Milmo, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2004.

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• Don't forget, I've been fired by studios; I'm not the studio's guy. I'm a guy who can work with studios, but if you ask any studio, I stand up to these people.

  Glen Mazzara

  People, Guy, Forget

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• A soul-based workplace asks things of me that I didn't even know I had. It's constantly telling me that I belong to something large in the world.

  David Whyte

  Soul, World, Workplace

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• If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There's a significant misunderstanding on the debt ceiling. People think it's authorizing new spending. The debt ceiling doesn't authorize new spending; it allows us to pay obligations already incurred.

  Peter Welch

  Thinking, People, Pay

  "Rep. Peter Welch". Interview with Seung Min Kim, www.politico.com. April 21, 2011.

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• Sandeep Jauhar’s Doctored is a passionate and necessary book that asks difficult questions about the future of medicine. The narrative is gripping, and the writing is marvelous. But it was the gravity of the problem—so movingly told—that grabbed and kept my attention throughout this remarkable work.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Book, Writing, Difficult Questions

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• Shoot first, ask questions last. That's how these so called gangsta's last.

  Waka Flocka Flame

  Gangsta, Firsts, Lasts

  FaceBook post by Waka Flocka Flame from Jan 11, 2015

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• Friends always ask me what the best Indian restaurant in L.A. is. I'm like, 'I don't know, dude. I have an app on my iPhone for that.'

  Noureen DeWulf

  Iphone, Restaurants, Apps

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My sense of style is an old Polo shirt, jeans and, unfortunately for the longest time, white running shoes, which was not attractive. The one thing I've learned about clothes is to ask a girl.

  Matthew Perry

  Girl, Running, Jeans

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• The searing light of morning
  Asks unwelcome questions,
  Fragile hopes soon blistered by daylight.

  Scott Hastie

  Morning, Light, Fragile

  Scott Hastie, “Out There”

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• If you had been poor in your last life I would have asked you to be rich when you come again. But you were rich. If you had been a coward, I would have asked you to bring courage. But you were a fearless warrior. If you had died young, I would have asked you to get life. But you lived long. So I shall ask you to come again the way you came before.

  Chinua Achebe

  Warrior, Long, Fearless

  Chinua Achebe (1996). “Things Fall Apart”, p.87, Heinemann

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• I ask the Philippines Government to put an end to journalists' killings by giving journalists' safety the priority it deserves.

  Warren Christopher

  Government, Safety, Giving

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• When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before anyone is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness. In this hour divinely fresh and still, the fair face of every flower salutes me with a silent joy. . . . All the cares, perplexities, and griefs of existence, all the burdens of life slip from my shoulders and leave me with the heart of a little child that asks nothing beyond the present moment of innocent bliss.

  Celia Thaxter

  Morning, Children, Flower

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• If you want to be a filmmaker, ask yourself if you could imagine doing any other job. If you can, that’s a script!

  Terrence Malick

  Jobs, Scripts, Want

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• The kids who need the most love will ask for it in the most unloving ways

  Russell Barkley

  Love, Children, Kids

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• I'm the kind of parent who asks my kids questions like, 'What would be your ideal thing to do in the summer?'

  Dwyane Wade

  Summer, Kids, Parent

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• The truth of life lies in the impulsiveness of matter. The mind of man has been poisoned by concepts. Do not ask him to be content, ask him only to be calm, to believe that he has found his place. But only the madman is really calm.

  Antonin Artaud

  Lying, Believe, Men

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.109, Univ of California Press

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• Dear young people, Christ asks you to be wide awake and alert, to see the things in life that really matter.

  Pope Francis

  Things In Life, People, Matter

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.

  Marjane Satrapi

  People, Answers, Should

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• It is such hard work to keep your heart hidden! And worse, by the time you find it easy, it will be harder still to show it. It is a terrible magic in this world to ask for exactly the thing you want. Not least because to know exactly the thing you want and look it in the eye is a long, long labor.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Eye, Hard Work, Heart

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.692, Macmillan

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• But hey, if that’s too much to ask, tell them to just become Christians—you know, the people who get to go to heaven without having to commit to anything

  Francis Chan

  Christian, People, Heaven

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.61, David C Cook

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