Asks Quotes - Page 25

• You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.

  Nastia Liukin

  Mary, Persons, Knows

  Interview with Darren Rovell, www.cnbc.com. August 20, 2008.

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• Whenever I go out, so many people who respect me ask me what to do in a certain situation. A lot of times, I didn't know the answers because sometimes I was going through the same sort of thing. But then later on, I would think of things that people told me.

  Patti LaBelle

  Thinking, People, Answers

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• Every song asks to be sung in a different way.

  Ray LaMontagne

  Song, Different, Way

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• One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations?

  Seth Lloyd

  Research, Digital, Performing

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

  Susan Lucci

  People, Ask Me

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• But if an actress asks me my opinion, I would tell her there are a million different designers who make faux fur. If you like that look, wear faux fur. If you're doing it on the red carpet, you're doing it for how it looks. Faux fur and real fur look the same on camera.

  AnnaLynne McCord

  Real, Fur, Looks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People often ask where I get my inspiration from, and I always say I have no good answer because, well, inspiration comes from everywhere: people, places, memories.

  Richelle Mead

  Memories, Inspiration, People

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• I don't really say too much to my parents. If they ask me to do something I just do it and get it out of the way.

  RJ Mitte

  Parent, Too Much, Way

  "Q&A – RJ Mitte (Walter Jr.)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. March 2010.

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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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• People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.

  Don McLean

  Music, People, American Pie

  "Going for a song: American Pie manuscript to be auctioned" by Hannah Ellis-Petersen, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2015.

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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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• 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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• Most of us do not even know how to ask a question. Most of us do not see the root of the word 'question' is 'quest'. Most of us don't have a quest in our life.

  Richard Saul Wurman

  Roots, Quests, Know How

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• The few people who ask to have their photographs with me, I almost always say yes, except for a few circumstances, like when my family is around.

  John Hodgman

  People, My Family, Photograph

  "John Hodgman, part two: geeks vs. jocks in all walks of life". Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 30, 2012.

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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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• 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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• I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years.

  Dirk Benedict

  Worst Person, Years, Persons

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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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• 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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• Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.

  Katherine Paterson

  Reading, Imagination, Creative

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• When people asked Socrates, ‘What is wisdom?’ he always gave the same answer: ‘I don’t know’. In fact, Socrates never claimed to know much of anything except how to ask questions. And by asking questions, he would prove to other people that they didn’t know what they thought they knew.

  Jim Rohn

  Asking Questions, People, Answers

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• Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.… You ask for votes for women. What good can votes do when ten-elevenths of the land of Great Britain belongs to 200,000 and only one-eleventh to the rest of the 40,000,000? Have your men with their millions of votes freed themselves from this injustice?

  Helen Keller

  Real, Mean, Men

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.68, Matthew Gordon

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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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