I Asked Quotes
870 I Asked quotes by 564 unique authors
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From the sea came a boat with some Israeli commando soldiers who took me by the commando boat to the yacht and put me on…
— Mordechai Vanunu
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I was maybe 5 or 6, and my grandmother would begin sitting me in the Quaker meeting house. I asked my grandmother, 'What am I…
— James Turrell
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'Why do you think it is...', I asked Dr. Cook ... 'that brain surgery, above all else-even rocket science-gets singled out as the most challenging…
— Michael J. Fox
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When I came back from Pakistan, I wanted to take computer classes nearby. I asked my brother. I was in my home, cooking for my…
— Malina Suliman
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Riches are for the comfort of life, and not life for the accumulation of riches. I asked a holy wise man, "Who is fortunate and…
— Saadi
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In April, I asked my staff to determine if Senate rules and relevant laws would allow me to direct the trustees to sell any remaining…
— Bill Frist
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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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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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People are bringing shotguns to UFO sightings in Fife, Alabama. I asked a guy, "Why do you bring a gun to a UFO sighting?" Guy…
— Bill Hicks
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I took Kanu on the Tuesday before the first game of the season because I never had any strikers. He said he hadn't kicked a…
— Harry Redknapp
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A female artist friend of mine recently told me that she was advised to 'look more slutty.' I asked her boyfriend what the equivalent advice…
— Mark Kostabi
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I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't…
— Walter Cronkite
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I have gotten more than I asked for. All that I ever wanted was to hear my voice on record and have a song among…
— Patsy Cline
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When I discovered a new plant, I sat down beside it for a minute or a day, to make its acquaintance and hear what it…
— John Muir
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Way back last summer I asked some of the most outstanding educational minds in this Nation to tackle this problem. I gave them a single…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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I think I might have a bad psychic advisor. When I asked her to contact the dead, she gave me Keith Richards' phone number.
— David Letterman
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I asked Him to give me the prayers He wants me to pray and to give or withhold anything according to his plan for me.…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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I'm a child of the downloading age. I remember when I was 10, a friend who went to the same school as me came to…
— Tove Styrke
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What if, every time I started to invent something, I asked, 'How would nature solve this?'
— Janine Benyus
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My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006, I asked a boy begging on the streets, 'If you could have…
— Adam Braun
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