Ask me Quote by Noam Chomsky Download Open image “When I was ten years old I wanted to be a taxidermist for some reason, don't ask me why.” — Noam Chomsky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ask me Asks Reason Ten Ten years Wanted Years
When I was young I wanted to be a bus driver, because my grandad was a conductor on the Routemasters. — Ashley Walters Copy Share Image
When I was little I always wanted to drive a train. That, and become a baker. — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I had a horrible flight. Horrible. It was well before I was 10 years old. So I always thought to… — John 5 Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a bus driver when I was a kid. I look at bus driving through the eyes of a little boy.… — Jim Lehrer Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a snowplow driver when I was a kid. Growing up in the Rocky Mountains, that's the most glorious job you… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
I've had an ambition to be somebody since I was 13 years old because I wanted to help my family. I wanted to hurry… — Trini Lopez Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a footballer and racing driver, like all kids. — Diego Della Valle Copy Share Image
My mother always tells me that when I was a little kid, my first ambition was to be a truck driver, and after that,… — Preity Zinta Copy Share Image
When I was young, all I wanted to do was go to nightclubs, drink, have fun and be unproductive. — Spencer Matthews Copy Share Image
As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory for Osama bin Laden, whose announced goal was to bankrupt America by drawing it into a trap. The 2011 military budget - almost matching that of the rest of the world combined - is higher in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are questions as to whether it should even exist. Who should corporations be responsive to, the management of a corporation? Theoretically they are… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The first thing you ought to do is verify what I present. Just because I say it doesn't make it true. So check it… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a long discussion about Harvard, and indeed the school's president, James Conant, did block Jewish faculty. He was the one who prevented European Jews from being admitted to the chemistry department - his field - and also had pretty… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I'd always have grease in at least two places, in case the umpires would ask me to wipe one off. I never wanted to… — Gaylord Perry Copy Share Image
I don't wear a watch because I want my arms to weigh the same. So if somebody asks me what time it is, I… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes. — Neve Campbell Copy Share Image
Why did Erich von Stronheim leave Germany? Why did Hitchcock leave England? If you were a director you'd like to work in Hollywood too.… — Roman Polanski Copy Share Image
I am a conservative type of person, so sometimes when I'm chilling with myself, people always come ask me, 'What's wrong with you? What… — Wayne Wonder Copy Share Image
I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share
My identity shifted when I got into # recovery . That's who I am now, and it actually gives me greater pleasure to have that identity than to be a musician or anything else, because it keeps me in a manageable size. When I'm down on the ground with my disease-which I'm happy to have-it gets me in tune. It… — Eric Clapton Copy Share
If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron… my answer is “How should I know?”…… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
When a young artist asks me a question, I want to do what I can to give them an answer if I have it… — Michael Tait Copy Share Image