Ask Me Quotes - Page 19

• Can I just tell you the truth? I get asked to do a lot of stuff. And all of the years that people have asked me to do things for the film festival, I couldn't. And so this year, I thought, "Oh, my god, I don't have a day job. If somebody ask me to do something, I'm going to do it."

  Oprah Winfrey

  Jobs, Years, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm kinda wishy-washy about questions. If you ask me again tomorrow, I'm likely to give you completely different answers.

  Jabari Asim

  Giving, Different, Answers

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• If you were to ask me whether you need a dictatorship to run India, No, you do not. Whether you need a powerful person who believes in concentrating power, No, you do not. If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

  Narendra Modi

  Running, Powerful, Believe

  "Exclusive Interview With Narendra Modi: 'We Are Natural Allies'". Interview with Nancy Gibbs, Zoher Abdoolcarim and Nikhil Kumar, time.com. May 07, 2015.

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• Now if you ask me, in conclusion, "Well, what, then should properly be done?" Obviously war, but I mean in regard to this issue I would say: Any way possible permission should be refused and if they go ahead and build it, the government should bomb it out of existence, evacuating it first, with no compensation to any of the property owners involved in this monstrosity.

  Leonard Peikoff

  War, Mean, Government

  "What do you think of the plan for a mosque in New York City near Ground Zero?". Podcast, June 28, 2010.

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• People might ask me, What do you propose instead? I propose nothing. I am a mere novelist, I just write about the world as I see it. It is not my job to transform it. I cannot transform it all by myself, and I wouldn't even know how to. I limit myself to saying what I believe the world to be.

  Jose Saramago

  Jobs, Believe, Writing

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• I believe that I've been asked all possible questions. I, myself, if I were a journalist, would not know what to ask me.

  Jose Saramago

  Believe, Journalist, Asks

  O Globo Interview, July 2009.

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• You ask me: 'Was he a fair player?' I say: 'No, I'm sorry, for me he was not a fair player.' I just think I respect him highly as a quality player. I did not like some things he did on the football pitch and I have the right to say that. It's not because you are older, suddenly, that you are a saint.

  Arsene Wenger

  Football, Sorry, Player

  "Paul Scholes's Tackles Are 'Unfair' Not Clumsy, Says Arsène Wenger". www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2010.

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• It was easily the happiest day of my football life and yet people still want to ask me about the suit. When they talk about the day, it's not 'didn't you do well?', it's 'what was that you were wearing?!

  Paul Jewell

  Football, People, Want

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• Don't ask me to give in to this body of mine. I can't afford it. Between me and my body there must be a struggle until death.

  Margaret of Cortona

  Struggle, Giving, Body

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• People ask me how long it took to make a work. I reply by giving them my age.

  Ted Godwin

  Time, Long, People

  Ted Godwin, Luther Pokrant (2002). “The Studio Handbook for Working Artists: A Survival Manual”, p.72, University of Regina Press

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• Don't even ask me why. I do not know, I have no answer to this insane behaviour.

  Marina Abramovic

  Insane, Behaviour, Answers

  "Interview: Marina Abramović" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2010.

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• You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.

  P. L. Travers

  Asks

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Don't ask me how to burn down a building. Ask me how to grow watermelons or how to explain nature to a child. That is what I want to grow old doing. Please afford me this.

  Rod Coronado

  Children, Want, Building

  "Operation Bite Back: Rod Coronado's War to Save American Wilderness". Book by Dean Kuipers, 2009.

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• If you ask me:"An openly homosexual teacher can work as a teacher? I say no. (...) I'll not do anything to discriminate you, but I'll also not do anything to put your type of relationship on the same level of the natural family.

  Gianfranco Fini

  Teacher, Levels, Natural

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• Not all television scripts are created equal. And the process is ridiculous. They send you a script and want you in the next morning. That's not how acting works. You can do anything to me as an actor; I'm a very resilient guy. Just don't rush me. If you ask me to do it immediately with no time to prepare, I know you have contempt for actors.

  Holt McCallany

  Morning, Guy, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People ask me if I believe how quickly my career has taken off. I just tell them that Jesus Christ is my strength. God has blessed me and I will continue to do my best for him. That is more important than anything I could ever do in baseball.

  Albert Pujols

  Baseball, Jesus, Believe

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• I'm French. I have not become an Englishman. I have the impression of living on an island called Arsenal. If you fancy a sightseeing tour of London, don't ask me. You would get lost.

  Arsene Wenger

  Soccer, Football, Islands

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• The Republican Party had a big day in yesterday's midterm elections and now controls the House and Senate. And don't ask me how this happened, but the Republican Party also gained control of three seats in our show's band.

  Conan O'Brien

  Party, Yesterday, House

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• Don't ask me how I am! I understand nothing more!

  Hans Christian Andersen

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• People ask me, Jimmy, howd you get here tonight. Lets just say it involved a two-hour make-out session with Elaine Stritch. It got pretty heavy actually, I almost had to host.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Two, People, Tonight

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• People ask me all the time: 'What is it like to be a woman at Google?' I'm not a woman at Google, I'm a geek at Google. And being a geek is just great. I'm a geek, I like to code, I even like to use spreadsheets when I cook.

  Marissa Mayer

  People, Google, Use

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• People ask me who he reminds me of. The way he's playing, I'd say he doesn't remind me of anybody. I've never seen anybody - running back, quarterback, wide receiver - make the plays that Vince Young made today.

  Dan Fouts

  Sports, Running, Play

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• People ask me, How would you do as a contestant on the show? And I tell them I would do fairly well among senior citizens, but against a good thirty-year-old I would have trouble because I cannot recall information as quickly as I used to. You used to say something and I would go, boom, right away, very sharp. Now it's like, Oh, yes, but wait a minute, uh, uh.

  Alex Trebek

  Senior, Years, People

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• I've had people ask me: 'How can you make a movie about a murderer? A terrorist?' What they don't understand is that I'm in support of everyone who appears on screen. I have to be. I take the position of everyone who's on screen. I'm not judging them one way or another.

  Benicio Del Toro

  People, Judging, Support

  "Benicio Del Toro Storms Out of 'Che' Interview". www.foxnews.com. January 28, 2009.

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• When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Thinking, Critics, Asks

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