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When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it. — Theodore Roosevelt
Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor. — Theodore Roosevelt
I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
It wasn't that no one asked me to the prom, it was that no one would tell me where it was. — Rita Rudner
When asked for your views, by the press or others, remember that what they really want to know is the President's views. — Donald Rumsfeld
If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it. — Salman Rushdie
Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live… — Salman Rushdie
Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are… — Salman Rushdie
When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't… — Salman Rushdie
Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause… — Bertrand Russell
If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been… — Bertrand Russell
A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've… — Richard Russo
When Governor Romney asked me to join the ticket, I said, 'Let's get this done' - and that is exactly, what we're going to do. — Paul Ryan
President Obama was asked not long ago to reflect on any mistakes he might have made. He said, well, 'I haven't communicated enough.' He said… — Paul Ryan
The people of Wisconsin have been good to me. I've tried to live up to their trust. And now I ask those hardworking men and… — Paul Ryan
Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall… — Jerry Saltz
So much is asked of parents, and so little is given. — Virginia Satir
Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked. — Marilyn vos Savant
For my writing, and because I love talking to young women about life, I often asked them which would they rather have - a father… — Jill Scott
I wrote an article on a new Porsche for 'Automobile Magazine.' I knew the editor, and she asked me to write this article. So I'm… — Jerry Seinfeld
A very beautiful young woman once asked me to sign her breasts. That was back when I was a hip young thing - it's been… — Will Self
If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the… — William Shatner
When friends asked me, Can we help? I'd say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock.… — Charlie Sheen
While I recognize the great value and importance of prescription drugs and strongly support a continued U.S. focus on pharmaceutical research and development, our nation's… — Michael K. Simpson
I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented the computer. He… — Jane Smiley

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