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Turning fully toward the glass, I consider what I see. This reflected version of myself, wet, shaking, rumpled, pinched, and slightly stoop, would be alarming… — Michael J. Fox
All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me.... If I must not, because of my sex, have this freedom...… — Aphra Behn
Embarrassed journalists ask me embarrassing questions, and they get embarrassing answers, and then hand out embarrassing stories to the embarrassing editors, who put them to… — Yao Ming
The question we must ask ourselves as a culture is whether we want to embrace the change that must come, or resist it. Are we… — Howard Lyman
This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it. — A A Milne
Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask. — C.S. Lewis
Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. Happy work is best done by the man who takes his… — C.S. Lewis
I do not ask for my music to be interpreted, but only for it to be played. — Maurice Ravel
It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted,… — Walter Lippmann
I don't think it's bribery; I think it's extortion. Bribery, you know, is when the person that's giving the money does it voluntarily. What it… — John McCain
I call myself a feminist when people ask me if I am, and of course I am 'cause it's about equality, so I hope everyone… — Ellen Page
I believe that it is only through empathy, that the pain experienced by an Algerian woman, a North Korean dissident, a Rwandan child or an… — Azar Nafisi
A second even more obvious sign is that the person will stop talking. If we are uncertain as to whether we have stayed long enough… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Tragically, one of the rarest commodities in our culture is empathy. People are hungry for empathy, They don't know how to ask for it. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
In the vast majority of movies, everything is done for the audience. We are cued to laugh or cry, be frightened or relieved; Hitchcock called… — Roger Ebert
It is interesting to observe that in the year 1935 the average individual's incurious attitude towards the phenomenon of the State is precisely what his… — Albert J. Nock
Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on the reader. Curiosity… — E. M. Forster
A day will come when our children and grandchildren will look back and they'll ask one of two questions. Either they will ask: "what in… — Al Gore
My coach confirmed to me my impression that he uses a different measuring stick to evaluate Almunia. For me, this was a huge disappointment. That… — Jens Lehmann
When people ask me what they should do, I reply, "Get informed, get outraged, and then get political." — Joseph J. Romm
You should never even ask if a campaign is winnable, because the question is not answerable. No-one can predict the course of the future. Time… — Elizabeth May
About one thing the Englishman has a particularly strict code. If a bird says Cluk bik bik bik bik and caw you may kill it,… — Clement Freud
We must ask why apparently general musical abilities should be restricted to a chosen few in societies supposed to be culturally more advanced. Does cultural… — John Blacking
Howard Altmann has found a way to make language transform itself. If the elusive moment between I and Thou could speak, it might be one… — Dennis Nurkse
It is not the fault of the entrepreneurs that the consumers,the people, the common man,prefer liquor to Bibles and detective stories to serious books, and… — Ludwig von Mises

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