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• People would ask me, 'Is he as funny at home as he is in the movies?' ... I would have to answer, 'Well, he can be funny. But he is also very serious. He has insomnia and if we him up early, he would bawl the hell out of me'.

  Arthur Marx

  Home, Insomnia, Up Early

  "The one, the only Groucho on PBS" by Paul Vercammen, www.cnn.com. March 13, 2001.

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• People often ask me, "What's the difference between couplehood and babyhood?" In a word? Moisture. Everything in my life is now more moist. Between your spittle, your diapers, your spit-up and drool, you got your baby food, your wipes, your formula, your leaky bottles, sweaty baby backs, and numerous other untraceable sources-all creating an ever-present moistness in my life, which heretofore was mainly dry.

  Paul Reiser

  Baby, Children, Humorous

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• We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.

  Margaret Fuller

  Men, Sea, Justice

  "The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women". Essay by Margaret Fuller, first published in The Dial Magazine, Volume IV, archive.vcu.edu. July 1843.

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• Two big questions that people ask me are: if we make these robots more and more human-like, will we accept them - will they need rights eventually? And the other question people ask me is, will they want to take over?

  Rodney Brooks

  Motivation, Inspiration, Technology

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• You ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot tell you with certainty. They come unsummoned, directly, indirectly - I could seize them with my hands - out in the open air, in the woods, while walking, in the silence of the nights, at dawn, excited by moods which are translated by the poet into words, by me into tones that sound and roar and storm about me till I have set them down in notes.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Night, Air, Hands

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• This is what I tell young women who ask me for career advice. People are going to try to trick you. To make you feel that you are in competition with one another. You're up for a promotion. If they go for a woman, it'll be between you and Barbara. Don't be fooled. You're not in competition with other women. You're in competition with everyone.

  Tina Fey

  Witty, Careers, People

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• People ask me 'what was going through your mind in the race?' and I don't know. I try and ...let my body do what it knows

  Ian Thorpe

  Motivational, Sports, Swimming

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• Hagen said that no-one remembers who finished second. But they still ask me if I ever think about that putt I missed to win the 1970 Open at St. Andrews. I tell them that some times it doesn't cross my mind for a full five minutes.

  Doug Sanders

  Golf, Winning, Thinking

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• The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia.

  Sparky Anderson

  Baseball, Grandchildren, Grandparent

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• I hope no one asks me to show them the ropes; I have no idea where they are. Maybe I could pull some strings and find out.

  George Carlin

  Humorous, Ideas, Rope

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• People ask me if I could fly, I said, 'yeah....' for a little while.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Nba

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• Ask me to play. I'll play. Ask me to shoot. I'll shoot. Ask me to pass. I'll pass. Ask me to steal, block out, sacrifice, lead, dominate. Anything. But it's not what you ask of me. It's what I ask of myself.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Block, Sacrifice

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• What does politically correct mean? If you're fat, don't ask me if you're fat, because I'm gonna tell you the truth. You're fat.

  Charles Barkley

  Funny, Basketball, Mean

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  I always laugh when people ask me about rebounding techniques. I've got a technique. It's called just go get the damn ball.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Nba, People

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• Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.

  Frances Conroy

  Nice, Makeup, People

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• Many times people ask me, "What is sin and what is virtue? And how to decide?" If you decide your decision will be wrong. If you choose you will be wrong. All choice is wrong. There is no way to decide. There is no need to decide what is sin and what is virtue. You only need a transparent mind, a clarity, a thoughtless mind, a no-mind, a mirror-like consciousness. In that consciousness WHATSOEVER HAPPENS is virtue. In that consciousness WHATSOEVER CANNOT HAPPEN is sin.

  Rajneesh

  Mirrors, People, Choices

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• I can't claim to know the words of all the national anthems in the world, but I don't know of any other that ends with a question and a challenge as ours does: Does that flag still wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? That is what we must all ask.

  Ronald Reagan

  Memorial Day, Home, Land

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as swimming or jogging.

  Tom Glazer

  Exercise, Swimming, Thinking

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• People ask me, how is managing in the New Economy different from managing in the Old Economy? Actually, it's a lot the same. It's about the financial discipline of the bottom line, understanding your customers, segmenting your customers by their needs, and building a world-class management team.

  Meg Whitman

  Team, Class, Discipline

  Interview with Stephen B. Shepard, www.bloomberg.com. March 19, 2001.

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• If you ask me, what is helpful to creativity is training the eye to notice things, to observe closely and precisely, being careful not to make a muddle of it.

  Ian Graham

  Creativity, Eye, Training

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• You ask me whether I am in good spirits. How could I not be so? As long as Faith gives me strength I will always be joyful. Sadness ought to be banished from Catholic souls... the purpose for which we have been created shows us the path; even if strewn with many thorns, it is not a sad path. It is joyful even in the face of sorrow.

  Pier Giorgio Frassati

  Faith, Inspiration, Sadness

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• Everyone asks me 'how it feels to fly.' It feels like riding in a high powered automobile, minus bumping over the rough roads, continually signaling to clear the way and keeping a watchful on the speedometer to see that you do not exceed the speed limit and provoke the wrath of the bicycle policeman or the covetous constable.

  Harriet Quimby

  Wrath, Riding, Way

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• You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it...I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it. That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say. ... I don't like overdubs, never liked them. ... The music business doesn't interest me anymore...Don't the people you're around shape the music, is that what you're saying? Everything does. ... I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

  Lou Reed

  Believe, Play, People

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• If I had lost a leg, I would tell them, instead of a boy, no one would ever ask me if I was 'over it'. They would ask me how I was doing learning to walk without my leg. I was learning to walk and to breathe and to live without Wade. And what I was learning is that it was never going to be the life I had before.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Miscarriage, Boys, Wade

  Elizabeth Edwards (2010). “Resilience: The New Afterword”, p.80, Crown Archetype

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• Man O' War was a great racehorse, but if I put a extra 20 pounds on him they would say I was cruel to the animal. So don't ask me to do that to Chavez.

  Don King

  War, Animal, Men

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