Asked Quotes
5201 quotes by 3036 authors
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If someone asked for my recipe for happiness, step one would be finding out what you love most in the world and step two would…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Once they witnessed one of his painting sold at auction for $100,000. And asked how you do it, he said, 'I feel as a horse…
— Edgar Degas
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Lots of people have asked me what Gracie and I did to make our marriage work. It's simple - we don't do anything. I think…
— George Burns
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An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the…
— Saint Augustine
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People asked me to change my name for [808s]...I think the fact that I can't sing that well is what makes "808s" so special.
— Kanye West
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The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a book of my own. I…
— Bruce Chatwin
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Asked who attacked America on 9/11, [Sarah Palin] suggested several times that it was Saddam Hussein.
— John Heilemann
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John asked me to dance and I nearly died. Bingo! I then amazed myself by being very cool, calm and collected outwardly-inside I was out…
— Cynthia Lennon
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That night, I asked the Mother of God what was to become of me, a Child of Faith. Then she came to me holding two…
— Maximilian Kolbe
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Dante would not have forgotten: they say that when Dante was a boy, he was asked: Dante what is the best food? to test his…
— Fernando Sabino
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The most tragic moment of my life was the first show I ever designed for. I had been asked to make shoes for Ossie Clark's…
— Manolo Blahnik
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Going into politics is something people have asked me about forever.
— Caroline Kennedy
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Years from now, when cinephiles are asked to name the movies' golden age, they'll say it was when Cate Blanchett was in them.
— Richard Corliss
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When I was nine, I asked my Dad, ‘Can I have your movie camera? That old, wind-up 8-millimeter movie camera that’s in your drawer?’ And…
— Michael Giacchino
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Years ago, I was crashed in gram’s garden and Big asked me what I was doing. I told him I was looking up at the…
— Jandy Nelson
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The Chinese tell time by 'The Year of the Horse' or 'The Year of the Dragon.' I tell time by 'The Year of the Back'…
— Earl Weaver
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When I asked Robert Spitzer about the possibility that he'd inadvertently created a world in which ordinary behaviours were being labelled mental disorders, he fell…
— Jon Ronson
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We are the only people on Earth asked to guarantee the security of our occupier...while Israel is the only country that calls for defense from…
— Hanan Ashrawi
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At one point in college I was so shy that I'd drop out of a class if asked to speak in front of other people.
— Joe Flanigan
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All I asked for was equality and independence. A rotating chairmanship might have been the answer.
— D. J. Enright
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