Ask Me Quotes - Page 34

• Lots of media people ask me what do you think of yoga in the gyms, and what do you think about this article and what do you think about that, and how about it's so commercial now. I say, look, whatever gets people turned on to it.

  Beryl Bender Birch

  Yoga, Thinking, Media

  "Beryl Bender Birch: Abhyasa and Avoiding Flying Tomatoes". Interview with Andrea Marcum, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We're not like the distance guys. I have a very simple approach. I don't overcomplicate. People ask me, are you doing 42 steps, 44 steps for 100 metres? I don't know.

  Usain Bolt

  Distance, Simple, People

  "Usain Bolt talks secret post-season parties, fame and the fear of losing". Interview with Alastair Campbell, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. August 15, 2016.

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• I think the thing that I wish somebody would ask me is just to ask about the business side of the radio show. I feel like I actually work very hard to make sure the business side of the radio show runs, and no one has any interest in how a public radio show is run. And rightly so.

  Ira Glass

  Running, Thinking, Wish

  "Ira Glass on doing magic tricks, Brad Pitt, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.avclub.com. August 2, 2016.

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• The way I think it all went down was MTV was doing a special on people and my publicist heard about it.It was a good thing though. People ask me about that all the time, all over the world. Sometimes I feel I'm more known for that then for rapping.

  Mic Geronimo

  Rap, Thinking, Mtv

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• Here's what I wish people wouldn't ask me: "Who are your influences?" That's a boring question. It's not even like, "What's it like to be a woman in comedy?" That question also happens often in interviews, but I at least understand where it's coming from. "Who are your influences" - I wonder if people ask that of male comics? Maybe they do.

  Cameron Esposito

  People, Wish, Males

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'd been influenced by reading books on art and colonies that existed in Paris and places like that and so when I came to Europe I came to France and I had very little money, and I had to live low and stayed in a bohemian section of Paris with a lot of other students, who were from medical school, science school and art school. We all lived in a kind of communal way and I was challenged politically, because I didn't have a clue and they would ask me questions about the Algerian War, which was very big in France in the late '50s.

  Robert Redford

  Art, War, Book

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I always say, when they ask me about American politics, is for you guys to decide who you elect.

  Tony Blair

  Guy, American Politics, Asks

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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• When people ask me my influences and I'm like, "nobody" they're like, "there has to be somebody." People seem to think you have to have an influence.

  Vince Staples

  Thinking, People, Influence

  "Vince Staples Talks About Prima Donna, Celebrity & Frank Ocean". Interview with Highsnobiety, www.highsnobiety.com.

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• It's weird when people ask me, "Why are you so nice?" It's like, "Because that's just what you should do. You should be kind to people." It seems really basic, but it's amazing how many people forget that.

  Brad Williams

  Nice, People, Be Kind

  "Interview with comedian Brad Williams". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• People ask me a lot like, "Hey, so when are you done with your tour?" Like when I die. That's when I'm done with my tour.

  Brad Williams

  People, Hey, Done

  "Interview with comedian Brad Williams". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• If you ask me now, I think every single writer whose work I've read has had some influence upon me, and I continue to be influenced, subtly, by everything I read, like a sponge. But then, what writers aren't? Being a literary sponge is one of the prerequisites for this insanity.

  Vera Nazarian

  Thinking, Insanity, Influence

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• If you ask me, Now, is it your best book? I would say, I don't really know. I wouldn't even want to say. And I'd even go on and say, I don't even think so.

  Chinua Achebe

  Book, Thinking, Goes On

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• When people ask me how I was able to make so much money in the market during a 20-year period, I would always say I did it off the misunderstandings of others.

  Jim Cramer

  Years, People, Able

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• I can never understand why people who have not seen me for a while ask if I am still writing. They might as well ask me if I am still breathing.

  Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

  Writing, Breathing, People

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• I don't micromanage the interiors. People ask me to and I say no. I don't want to control everything.

  Frank Gehry

  People, Want, Interiors

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• Sometimes cats just avoid using a litter box but that [cat going poop outside the litter box but pees inside the litter box] is kind of strange. Most time people ask me why they go outside the litter box period.

  Temple Grandin

  Cat, People, Strange

  "Interview with Dr. Temple Grandin" by Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

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• Young people ask me for advice, and I tell them to do what I didn't do. Get some training. I took jobs that required talents I didn't have.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Jobs, People, Advice

  "Dick Van Dyke: Icon". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. September 14, 2016.

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• If you ask me to sew a button, I don't know how to do it! The idea of the whole collection and how you want to build your brand is all about working with the right people. And luck!

  Carolina Herrera

  Ideas, People, Luck

  "The Evolution of Elegance". Interview with Renee Zellweger, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 15, 2016.

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• I can actually get involved in getting stories off the ground that no one would ask me to be in because I'm the wrong age, the wrong sex, the wrong nationality, or whatever. I've found it quite exhilarating to have that freedom to tell the stories that aren't just about middle-aged white English guys.

  Colin Firth

  Sex, White, Guy

  "Colin Firth on the Long Road to ‘Bridget Jones's Baby’ and the Unconventional ‘Kingsman 2'". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 16, 2016.

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• Barack Obama's said some very nice things and he says them well. But if you ask me, the reason that we're looking at somebody who is such an inexperienced senator, who has said some very pleasant but not especially sterling or innovative things, the reason that he's considered such a big deal is simply because he's black.

  John H. McWhorter

  Nice, Black, Reason

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I had no identity [when I was 27] - I was terrified that somebody would ask me what I was doing, and I would have no answer.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Identity, Answers, Terrified

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• When you ask me who I look up to and who I can admire for their style right now, I have to choose from people that represent what I represent stylistically.

  T.I.

  People, Style, Looks

  "Complex's T.I. Cover Story: The Outtakes". Interview with Toshitaka Kondo, www.complex.com. August 10, 2010.

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• When people ask me that, I say I don't want to be remembered. It means I'm no longer around.

  Lewis Hamilton

  Mean, People, Want

  Source: www.manforhimself.com

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• When pastors ask me if their people will buy this vision, I ask them two questions: "Have they bought into your leadership?" If they haven't, don't ever try to pass on a vision. Second, "Have you processed this vision correctly?"

  John C. Maxwell

  Two, People, Vision

  Source: enrichmentjournal.ag.org

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• I'm not one generally to do that stuff anyway, and they didn't even ask me whether I'd seen the show [The Flash]. They didn't tell me anything about what I was going to play, they just inferred that there was going to be a lot of meat to sink my teeth into.

  Tom Felton

  Play, Meat, Teeth

  "The Flash: 9 questions with Tom Felton". Interview with Ed Gross, www.empireonline.com. October 3, 2016.

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