Asking People Quotes
29 quotes by 27 authors
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I will not accept a new wave of fiscal retrenchment, of belt-tightening, without asking people at the top to make their contribution, to make an…
— Nick Clegg
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I am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint and how they decide to procreate and how…
— Jonathon Porritt
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I saw a guy being really abusive to his girlfriend. She was asking people to help, but no one would. When he grabbed her, I…
— Timothy Hutton
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I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and…
— Dean Ornish
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The word 'confession,' to me, means needing to be absolved. I'm not asking for forgiveness. I'm not asking people to understand. I'd like to think…
— Tori Amos
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Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football.
— Bill Bryson
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Since you (US "drug tsar" McCaffrey) control a federal budget that has just been increased from $17.8 billion last year to $19.2 billion this year,…
— James P. Gray
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You can't make anything authentic by asking people what they want because they don't know what they want. That's what they're looking at you for.
— Thom Mayne
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I think we should stop asking people in their 20s what they 'want to do' and start asking them what they don't want to do.…
— Amy Poehler
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The thing that drives me crazy is when comics say 'I have low self-esteem.' No you don't. You're standing on stage asking people to pay.…
— Colin Quinn
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In Irish law, busking is considered vagrancy - you can be arrested for it. It's risky asking people for money in public. So it's not…
— Glen Hansard
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I'm not asking people to feel sorry for me.
— Jack Abramoff
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There was a brief moment after 9/11 when Colin Powell said we should not rush to satisfy the desire for revenge. It was a great…
— Judith Butler
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It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are…
— Stan Dale
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I think we should stop asking people in their twenties what they 'want to do' and start asking them what they don't want to do.
— Amy Poehler
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Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean…
— Billy Corgan
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to…
— Ralph Fiennes
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I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.
— Barbara Kruger
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Asking people for money is giving them the opportunity to put their resources at the disposal of the Kingdom.
— Henri Nouwen
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I am on the power toothbrush train and I'm asking people to try to using an Oral B power toothbrush. I just started using one…
— Sherri Shepherd
Who Wrote These Asking People Quotes
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