Asked Quotes
5201 quotes by 3036 authors
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When actress Shirley Maclaine arrived 30 minutes late for a class, I asked her to leave.
— Bikram Choudhury
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I was in Estonia when a professor asked me if I was aware that making any criticism of the Red Army during the war was…
— Antony Beevor
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I bought a tape recorder and some stuff and went to Europe for three months when I was 18. The puppeteering was only there as…
— Frank Oz
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For the first few months, I was a comically inept parent. The first night home from the hospital, I held her bare body against my…
— Nick Flynn
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Because I teach and write about depression and bipolar illness, I am often asked what is the most important factor in treating bipolar disorder. My…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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I went to junkyards, abandoned car lots. I asked supermarkets for the big jugs they put pig guts in, to make cabinets for my bass…
— Grandmaster Flash
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As an actor, you know there are things you get asked to do that you do quite well, with less effort.
— Martin Freeman
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Grant Dalton, constantly, whenever he gets asked something in the media about Oracle, he makes the statement that we have got unlimited resources, and we…
— James Spithill
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A lot of people have asked me to do answer phone messages for them.
— Andy Serkis
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When I had a fellowship at the Smithsonian, I asked for a couch in the office because I liked to lie down and take a…
— Gloria Steinem
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In the ongoing celebration that is literature, we are asked to imagine ourselves as other selves, for better or worse.
— Joanna Scott
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For celebrities, privacy is utterly nonexistent. You are asked intrusive questions about your personal life. You can be photographed at any moment.
— Roxane Gay
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Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
— Ovid
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Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked.
— Gary Ryan Blair
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The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. All through the sixties…
— Bill Lee
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I realize that much will be asked of me, yet I am resolved to accept it as a great and splendid task.
— Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands
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I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and…
— James Joyce
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The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.
— Hector Hugh Munro
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I have never once asked Alaskans to like how I got this job.
— Lisa Murkowski
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I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases…
— Harold Ross
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