Ask Me Quotes - Page 5

• Oh, she's my bodyguard. I mean, I'm a married man, and the last thing you need in that situation is to be considered a sexy individual. But I try to never let this whole McDreamy thing really influence us. I'm trying to just have a calm family life, to make my marriage work. It's not as if when my wife asks me to take out the trash, I say, 'Um, honey, don't you realize that I'm too sexy for that'? Well, actually, I do, but she gives me crap for it.

  Patrick Dempsey

  Sexy, Mean, Men

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• When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experiences of nearly forty years at sea, I merely say uneventful. I have never been in an accident of any sort worth speaking about....I never saw a wreck and have never been wrecked, nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort.

  Edward Smith

  Years, Sea, Safety

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• Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, It is not good for a woman to live alone.

  Anna Held

  Husband, Men, Right Man

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• You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.

  George Armstrong Custer

  Country, Regret, War

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• I can't have discussions about it anymore, I just can't. When someone asks me if I've found Jesus, I say, 'Yeah, I saw him at a Nirvana concert a couple of years ago.' It's like, Jesus has got things to do, he's got a ten o'clock. He's not going to fix things for me, I have to fix things for myself, so I try and have a sense of humor about it and nobody finds my humor very amusing. We've just got to lighten up on the savior bit, folks. You know, get off the cross, we need the wood.

  Tori Amos

  Jesus, Couple, Years

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• Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?

  Muhammad Ali

  Dog, Home, Simple

  "Stephen Frears To Direct ‘Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight’ For HBO, Casting Underway" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. February 1, 2012.

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• If someone asks me a question it is very difficult not to answer honestly.

  Penelope Tree

  Answers, Difficult, Honestly

  "People thought I was a freak. I kind of liked that" by Louise France, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2008.

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• Embarrassed journalists ask me embarrassing questions, and they get embarrassing answers, and then hand out embarrassing stories to the embarrassing editors, who put them to the front pages of newspapers. When is this going to end?

  Yao Ming

  Embarrassing Questions, Hands, Editors

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• I call myself a feminist when people ask me if I am, and of course I am 'cause it's about equality, so I hope everyone is. You know you're working in a patriarchal society when the word "feminist" has a weird connotation.

  Ellen Page

  People, Feminist, Causes

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• When people ask me what they should do, I reply, "Get informed, get outraged, and then get political."

  Joseph J. Romm

  People, Political, Climate

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• When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you'll have to hire someone else, and you'll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we're so proud of.'

  Mitch Daniels

  Leader, Proud, Indiana

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• Don't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any attention to me when my job is at stake.

  Christopher Dodd

  Jobs, Writing, Thinking

  "EXCLUSIVE: Chris Dodd warns of Hollywood backlash against Obama over anti-piracy bill". www.foxnews.com. January 19, 2012.

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• Those who count on quote 'Hollywood' for support need to understand that this industry is watching very carefully who's going to stand up for them when their job is at stake. Don't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any attention to me when my job is at stake.

  Christopher Dodd

  Jobs, Writing, Thinking

  "EXCLUSIVE: Chris Dodd warns of Hollywood backlash against Obama over anti-piracy bill", www.foxnews.com. January 19, 2012.

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• If you go to a big city anywhere in the world and you need a doctor, just ask me. I can tell you who's good and who's bad. I've even considered writing a guidebook.

  Steffi Graf

  Writing, Doctors, Cities

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• When people ask me to define science fiction and fantasy I say they are the literatures that explore the fact that we are toolmakers and users, and are always changing our environment.

  Nalo Hopkinson

  People, Fiction, Literature

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• When people ask me how they should approach performance, I always tell them the professional musician should aspire to the state of the beginner.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  People, Musician, Beginners

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• Ask me if Christianity (my version of it, yours, the Pope's, whoever's) is orthodox, meaning true, and here's my honest answer: a little, but not yet. Assuming by Christianity you mean the Christian understanding of the world and God, Christian opinions on soul, text, and culture I'd have to say that we probably have a couple of things right, but a lot of things wrong, and even more spreads before us unseen and unimagined. But at least our eyes are open! To be a Christian in a generously orthodox way is not to claim to have the truth captured, stuffed, and mounted on the wall.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Christian, Wall, Couple

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• We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth, and if you ask me about those insoluble economic problems that may arise if the top is deprived of their initiative, I would answer 'To hell with them.' The top is greedy and mean and will always find a way to take care of themselves. They always do.

  Michael Foot

  Mean, Helping Others, Common Purpose

  Michael Foot (1984). “Another heart and other pulses: the alternative to the Thatcher society”, HarperCollins

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• People ask me to describe how I play, and the most obvious answer is that I'm a jazz influenced guitar player. But I'm not a jazz guitar player. Wes Montgomery was a jazz guitarist, Joe Pass was a jazz guitarist (laughs).

  Larry Carlton

  Music, Player, Guitar

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• One thing people always ask me is 'How do you play outside?' ... I have no idea how to teach that, but when I was discussing this with our bass player Jesse Murphy, he said 'tell them to go cliff diving'... In other words, when you're jamming, you have to take risks if you want to find new sounds.

  John Scofield

  Music, Player, Ideas

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• They ask me what I'd like written about me when I'm gone. I hope they write I made Penn State a better place, not just that I was a good football coach.

  Joe Paterno

  Football, Writing, Gone

  Gene Collier, Joe Paterno (1997). “The Paterno Legacy”

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• Some day I'm going to have to stand before God, and if He asks me why I didn't let that [Jackie] Robinson fellow play ball, I don't think saying 'because of the color of his skin' would be a good enough answer.

  Branch Rickey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball

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• Or you can broil the meat, fry the onions, stew the garlic in the red wine...and ask me to supper. I'll not care, really, even if your nose is a little shiny, so long as you are self-possessed and sure that wolf or no wolf, your mind is your own and your heart is another's and therefore in the right place.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Heart, Wine, Self

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• I think people talk too much; that's the truth of the matter. I do. I don't believe in words. People use too many words and usually wrongly. I am sure that in the distant future people will talk much less and in a more essential way. If people talk a lot less, they will be happier. Don't ask me why.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "Interview in Rome". Encountering Directors, (pp. 15-32), 1972.

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• People always ask me: 'When is the new Pele going to be born?' Never. My father and mother have closed the factory.

  Pele

  Mother, Father, People

  "Pele insists: Messi isn't in my league yet". www.mirror.co.uk. January 20, 2012.

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