Asked Quotes
5201 quotes by 2862 authors
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Freud articulated the standard opinion when he asked with supposed seriousness, 'What does a woman want?'... Today the question that is the yeast in the…
— Sam Keen
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No one has ever asked to see my degree certificate.
— David Hockney
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Learn to ask for what you want. The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for which is precisely where you…
— Peter McWilliams
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Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the…
— Paul Dickson
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Without trying to clear up the degree of correctness of a qualification which no one, one must hope, will be asked to understand exactly, I…
— Gustave Courbet
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How do the stems connect to the roots?' 'Where is the mist coming from?' 'Why does one tree seem darker than another?' These questions are…
— Alain de Botton
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I am not sure that it is a bad thing to go to a school, as I did, where the boys threw things at me,…
— William Merritt Chase
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I once asked God what I could give him. "Your problems," he said. "I've got everything else.
— Lionel Blue
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I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came…
— Alice Hoffman
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A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. 'By getting up every time I fell down,' he answered.
— David Seabury
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Decoration is asked to be 'merely' pleasing, 'merely' embellishing, and the 'functional' logic of Modernism leaves no room, apparently, for such 'mereness.' This is part…
— Clement Greenberg
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I was in Los Angeles making 'Dead Again' and the producer, Lindsay Doran , asked me if I'd be interested in adapting this book, ..…
— Emma Thompson
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A world filled with temptations needs priests who are totally dedicated to their mission. Accordingly, they are asked in a very special way to open…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The canvas you are working on modifies the previous ones in an unending, baffling chain which never seems to finish. What sympathy is demanded of…
— Philip Guston
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I've been polite and I've always shown up. Somebody asked me if I had any advice for young people entering the business. I said: "Yeah,…
— Tom T. Hall
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I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there first.…
— Elizabeth Moon
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I try to keep that quiet unless it is asked but yeah, I have a girlfriend and she is a great girl
— Jesse McCartney
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I asked people who have already finished books for advice, which is akin to asking a mother with a four-year-old what childbirth is like.
— Amy Poehler
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The question has been asked, 'What is a woman?' A woman is a person who makes choices. A woman is a dreamer. A woman is…
— Eleanor Holmes Norton
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When I was in London for The Brits recently I read that I had asked for a Jacuzzi in the dressing room - how ridiculous…
— Paris Hilton
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