Ask Me Quotes - Page 17

• What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.

  Astrid Lindgren

  Children, Book, Thinking

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• You may ask me for anything you like except time.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Time, May, Asks

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• People sometimes ask me if I do not feel lonely on holidays. How can I feel lonely when I live in the constant awareness of God's presence? I love and I enjoy being with people, but when I am alone I enjoy being alone with God.

  Peace Pilgrim

  God, Lonely, Holiday

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.48, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• People often ask me if I know the secret of success and if I could tell others how to make their dreams come true. My answer is, you do it by working.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, Greatness, People

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• We had a great lunch. Senator Capper paid for it. The Republican pays, as usual. And everything that the Democrats are doin' now, the Republicans pay for it. Everybody asks me, "Will, how long is this going to go on, spending all this money and everything going like this?" I says, "Well, it will go on just as long as the Republicans has got any money. That's all I know about it."

  Will Rogers

  Lunch, Long, Usual

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• To ask me whether I could endure to live without friends is absurd. It is easy enough to live out of material sight of friends, but to live without human love is impossible.

  John Muir

  Friendship, Love Is, Sight

  John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.26, Great West Books

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• It's ridiculous if you ask me. I don't know what any of us are doing here. But we're a tribe, a network, cruising the galaxy. We have offices in every loka, in every part of existence. I suppose you make that out to be a unique situation. We're Unique! No, I don't think so. We're enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Unique, Thinking

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• People always want to ask me about my dad. Which I get because he's a phenomenal actor, and that's for the world, that's out there. But my mother is every bit as impressive and as important for the world as my dad is. It's just that she's not an actor.

  Domhnall Gleeson

  Mother, Dad, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Journalists often ask me: "Aren't you sorry that after all the work you've done, you're best known as Magneto and Gandalf?" But that's what I've always wanted - not to be known as myself. I want to draw attention to the characters.

  Ian Mckellen

  Sorry, Character, Want

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• People ask me, "How do I succeed?" Whatever it is they do, I say, "Go and find 20 ways of messing it up. By 21, you'll be getting there." Life is an adventure, go back with cuts, scars and bruises.

  Bear Grylls

  Adventure, Cutting, People

  "​I Went Camping With Bear Grylls, And Survived". Interview with Wes Siler, gizmodo.com. November 20, 2014.

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• Don't ask me about this building or that one, don't look at what I do, see what I see.

  Luis Barragan

  Looks, Building, Asks

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• In order for a musician to grow, he's got to pay his dues. Some musicians ask me, 'well, what do you mean? You're saying I have to 'starve' and pay all these dues just to play jazz?' And my answer to them is, well, to some degree, yes! Because in order to play jazz you have to live it. Those notes mean something. They don't just come from your brain, they come from your heart and soul too. And in order to have that heart and soul you have to experience life. So I relate my music to my life and my life style. You can't separate the two.

  Woody Shaw

  Mean, Heart, Order

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• I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who actually ask me to be more, because they see it in me.

  Charles Yu

  People, Asks

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Enhanced Edition): A Novel”, p.131, Knopf

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• If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.

  Elie Wiesel

  Teaching, Want, Awareness

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.85, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• People, when asked if they are Christians, give some of the strangest answers you ever heard. Some will say if you ask them: "Well - well - well, I, - I hope I am." Suppose a man should ask me if I am an American. Would I say: "Well, I - well, I - I hope I am?

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Men, People

  Dwight L Moody (1995). “Heaven”, p.76, Moody Publishers

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• Don't ask me for promises until I know what I am promising.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Promise, Knows, Asks

  1894 Catherine to Raina. Arms and the Man, act 1.

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• Ask me who I don't dress!

  Coco Chanel

  Dresses, Asks

  "Paris, Paris : Journey Into the City of Light‎". Book by David Downie, p. 93, 2005.

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• People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it.

  Ray Bradbury

  People, Want, Building The Future

  "Beyond 1984: The People Machines". Book by Ray Bradbury, 1979.

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• People always ask me about career choices, though it rarely ever seems like any kind of choice. It's just like, I really want to do something, this is what I can do, and that's it. I'm lucky to be doing this at all.

  Emile Hirsch

  Careers, People, Choices

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• I'm a child myself, in the sense that I'm still looking. Children are fascinated by black holes and ask me questions. I find they soon get the idea if it is explained in nontechnical language.

  Stephen Hawking

  Children, Ideas, Black

  "Q & A: Stephen Hawking and daughter Lucy". Today interview, www.today.com. November 2, 2007.

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• My advice to whoever asks me how to make a home is to not have anything, just a few shelves for books, some pillows to sit on. And then, to take a stand against the ephemeral, against passing trends... and to return to lasting values.

  Gae Aulenti

  Book, Home, Advice

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• I bet you don't know what is the first thing Little Leaguers always ask me, 'How much money do you make?'

  Rocky Bridges

  Littles, Firsts, Little League

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• People always ask me if they're mine. Yes, they are... all bought and paid for.

  Dolly Parton

  People, Breasts, Mines

  "5 style lessons we can learn from Dolly Parton" by Rina Raphael, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• If a sheep dies on the shore of the Euphrates I fear lest Allah ask me to account for it on the Day of Resurrection.

  Umar

  Sheep, Resurrection, Shore

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• But my knowledge of Marxism was limited to knowing that Marx was a Jew, and that he had a long white beard. I said to Lunatcharsky (the political communist commissar for Education, 1918, fh) 'Whatever you do, don't ask me why I painted in blue or green, and why you can see a calf inside the cow's belly, etc. On the other hand you're welcome: if Marx is so wise, let him come back to life and explain it himself'. I showed him my canvases.

  Marc Chagall

  Wise, Hands, White

  "Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 - 1922". Book by Christoph Vitali, p. 34, 1991.

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