They Ask Quotes
201 They Ask quotes by 180 unique authors
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Slowly I learn the importance of powerlessness. I experience it in my own life and I live with it in my work. The secret is…
— Sheila Cassidy
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Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of…
— William Hazlitt
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My mother used to tell me, No matter what they ask you, always say yes. You can learn later.
— Natalie Wood
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People ask me what I'm writing. They think I'm Sandra Tsing Loh. Or they ask about stand-up. 'No, that's Margaret Cho.' I really think there…
— Sandra Oh
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I also think there's too many players who say the same boring answers, they don't even have to turn up to interviews because journalists answer…
— Shane Warne
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I don't really say too much to my parents. If they ask me to do something I just do it and get it out of…
— RJ Mitte
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When people ask the Dalai Lama, "Is Buddhism a religion?" he answers, "Yes, it is." Then they ask, "What kind of religion is it?" He…
— Sylvia Boorstein
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When you hear voices in your head that tell you to shoot the pope, do you do what they say? Same thing goes for customers…
— Linus Torvalds
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Young children are naturally so philosophical. They ask: 'What is real? What is truth?' They have to learn it; they don't automatically know it. To…
— Sharon Creech
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.
— Adam Garcia
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I always say to young people when they ask me how I work, I always say to them, the only time you've ever going to…
— Lawrence Halprin
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The year you win an Oscar is the fastest year in a Hollywood actor's life. Twelve months later they ask, 'Who won the Oscar last…
— Cliff Robertson
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Firms don't just try to pay as little as possible to get the needed bodies on board; when there is unemployment, they ask themselves how…
— Janet Yellen
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Just as someone who's been interested in radio and programming for so long, I can usually tell when an interviewer is doing a segment just…
— Chris Hardwick
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When you've fallen on the highway / and you're lying in the rain, / and they ask you how you're doing / of course you'll…
— Leonard Cohen
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In Spain and Italy I would not have a life among the fans. Everyone wants to touch you, own you and approach you. I try…
— Ruud van Nistelrooy
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Others will give away large alms in order to be considered charitable people. Should they not give these out of their own wages, which so…
— John Vianney
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The person who helps you is the person who aids you in becoming independent and strong. Good teachers don't answer your questions, they ask you…
— Frederick Lenz
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The service members don't ask much of us. They ask to be well trained. They ask to be well equipped and they ask to be…
— Brian Whitman
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People often ask themselves the right questions. Where they fail is in answering the questions they ask themselves, and even there they do not fail…
— William Maxwell
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The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder. They have curiosity. 'Who, what, where,…
— Sylvia Earle
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Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
— George Eliot
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I do sometimes lecture people about what they're eating, but that's only if they ask me.
— Woody Harrelson
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Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get…
— Thabo Mbeki
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I always have a beard between jobs. I just let it grow until they pay me to shave it. People are quite surprised it's ginger.…
— James McAvoy
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