Asking Quotes
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Ask Quotes
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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Sydney J. Harris
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A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one`s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
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When a friend is in trouble, don`t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
Edward Howe
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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Sydney J. Harris
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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, `What`s in it for me?`
Brian Tracy
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Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can`t be done.
Bo Bennett
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If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking `Do you want fries with that?`
John Cleese
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Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
Albert Camus
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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
Thomas Berger
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Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
John Perry Barlow
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Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they`re looking for ideas
Paula Poundstone
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Asking `who ought to be the boss` is like asking `who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?` Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
Henry Ford
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Asking `who ought to be the boss` is like asking `who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?` Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
Henry Ford
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde
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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Carl Sandburg
Subject: Poetry QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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[About gaining notoriety from her work on "Grey`s Anatomy" (2005).] I`m anxious about losing anonymity. I keep asking Chyler Leigh, "How`s the supermarket?". (2007)
Brooke Smith
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[On Method actors] It is hard to dig them because they move like hermit crabs - they have to have a shell to crawl into and they don`t want anyone to get to know them ... They are offbeat and strange and always thinking about themselves. They are always a...
Gary Cooper
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My favorite thing about acting is being alone and going through the scripts and working on it and getting ideas and asking myself questions, looking outside myself for them and researching and getting to the bottom of something and being creative with it ...
Philip Seymour Hoffman
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On violence in Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003): "When I was on "The View" (1997), Barbara Walters was asking me about the blood and stuff, and I said, `Well, you know, that`s a staple of Japanese cinema.` And then she came back,`But this is America.` And I go, `...
Quentin Tarantino
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[On reporters asking the same questions over and over]: That`s the good thing about them! They all ask exactly the same questions and you can say exactly the same answers! You don`t have to think, you can just stand there like a broken record going LALALA...
Emma Watson
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During Double Indemnity (1944), Fred MacMurray would go to rushes. I remember asking Fred, `How was I?` `I don`t know about you, but I was wonderful!` Such a true remark. Actors only look at themselves.
Barbara Stanwyck
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[on his mock "crusade" against the Associated Press regarding his claim that coined the word "truthiness"] It`s a sin of omission, is what it is. You`re not giving people the whole story about truthiness. It`s like Shakespeare still being alive and not as...
Stephen Colbert
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On journalists constantly asking her if she`d like children, especially as she had been married for 10 years: "`Yeah, I was asked that every single time, and it did feel quite personal. Especially if you say that yes, you do want children. You have to say...
Emily Watson
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They want people they can push around. I was the girl who was always asking, "Why? Yeah, I know you want me to do that - but why?" I always thought people wanted to hear my opinions. [Grins] But I gave them anyway. It`s just blind self-confidence. I get l...
Reese Witherspoon
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Fans asking for my autograph is really weird. It`s hard to get used to.
Rupert Grint
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It`s crazy! One minute you`re working in a restaurant, and the next minute you`re in a TV series with everyone asking how you feel playing the bad girl, and you`re going, `Well, I know how to julienne carrots really well.`
Jamie Luner
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There are all sorts of reasons why I don`t do much work in the theater, the main one being that after two performances I feel I`ve given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It`s like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life.
Peter Cushing
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People have been asking me for thirty-five years if I was losing jobs because of my conservative politics. I`ve never felt that was the case.
Charlton Heston
