Ask Me Quotes - Page 8

• In my final years in Green Bay, when I wasn't getting the ball, people would ask me why I never complained.
  'Because these guys are my family,' I would say. 'I'm not selfish. It's not about me. It's about these guys, my family, and winning championships together.

  Donald Driver

  Selfish, Winning, Years

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• Don't ask me if life is worth living, live it yourself and find out.

  James Hearst

  Life, Asks, Worth Living

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• My grandmother asks me to race down the street, I'm going to try to beat her. And I'll probably enjoy it. Competitive to a fault, sometimes.

  Derek Jeter

  Success, Grandmother, Winning

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• If you were to ask me what I want to do - I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

  Lady Gaga

  Differences, Making A Difference, Want

  "Lady Gaga: Lording it" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2011.

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• When other people ask me, 'What gives you the right to suggest standards for others?', my answer is, 'If I don't, someone else, perhaps less qualified, will.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  People, Giving, Answers

  Anton Szandor LaVey (2000). “The Devil's Notebook”, p.146, Feral House

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• When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.

  Luc Tuymans

  Art, Answers, Paint

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• Hey, I'm serious here? Why do you have to ask me how many hits I have?

  Adam Dunn

  Hey, Serious, Asks

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• When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.

  Imogen Cunningham

  Silly, Artist, People

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• So when you ask me how string theory might be tested, I can tell you what's likely to happen at accelerators or some parts of the theory that are likely to be tested.

  Edward Witten

  Might, Strings, Theory

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• People always ask me how long somebody can last as long as I've been lasting and continue to keep doing it, so I figured that people didn't really know how to do that.

  Jermaine Dupri

  Long, People, Lasts

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• Normally when people ask me what I do I say I'm an actor, and that's what I always wanted to be and that's the way I approach work even when I'm directing it.

  Simon McBurney

  People, Theatre, Actors

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• People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'

  Edward Albee

  Writing, Play, Long

  Edward Albee (2009). “Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee”, p.165, Da Capo Press

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• ...When someone asks me to help create a room my first reaction, if I do not already know the person, is to try to feel out what he or she really wants the room to be and to understand, if possible, what "memory," old or new, has brought this idea about.

  Sister Parish

  Memories, Ideas, Design

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• Those chess lovers who ask me how many moves I usually calculate in advance, when making a combination, are always astonished when I reply, quite truthfully, 'as a rule not a single one'

  Richard Reti

  Moving, Chess, Lovers

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• I believe that this could very well be looked back on as the sin of our generation...I believe that our children and their children, 40 or 50 years from now, are going to ask me, what did you do while 40 million children became orphans in Africa?

  Richard Stearns

  Children, Believe, Our Generation

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• Madam, you ask me how I compose. I compose sitting down.

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Music, Sitting Down, Asks

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• It was not my destiny, I kept thinking it would be, waiting for it to happen, but it never did, and I didn't care what people thought ... It was only boring old men who would ask me. And whenever they went, 'What? No children? Well, you'd better get on with it, old girl,' I'd say 'No! F*** off!'

  Helen Mirren

  Girl, Children, Destiny

  "Helen Mirren confronts the final female taboo" By Sarah Rainey, www.telegraph.co.uk. February 4, 2013.

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• Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.

  Mark Haddon

  Giving, Answers, Literature

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• Ways of loving from a distance, mating without even touching-Amor platonicus! The ladder of love one is expected to climb higher and higher, elating the Self and the Other. Plato clearly regards any actual physical contact as corrupt and ignoble because he thinks the true goal of Eros is beauty. Is there no beauty in sex? Not according to Plato. He is after `more sublime pursuits.' But if you ask me, I think Plato's problem, like those of many others, was that he never got splendidly laid.

  Elif Safak

  Sex, Plato, Distance

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• Yeah, reflections! The same, but different. Like twins - like blood brothers! And when you need something bad done, like punishment or revenge, you'll just ask me, and I will do it -

  Sonya Hartnett

  Brother, Revenge, Reflection

  Sonya Hartnett (2006). “Surrender”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• People always ask me about the intent of witchcraft and what it is used for. The answer in 'white' covens is simple: it is to be use the powers for good amongst the circle and its friends.

  Vivianne Crowley

  Simple, Circles, White

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• To ask me is in vain;
  For who goes up your winding stair
  Can ne'er come down again.

  Mary Howitt

  Vain, Stairs, Asks

  Mary Howitt (1834). “Sketches of natural history”, p.123

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• Clients say, 'What's your strategy,' and I say, 'Ask me what I believe first.' That's a far more enduring answer.

  Ginni Rometty

  Believe, Firsts, Clients

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• Fans always ask me to marry them so I'll have a lot of wives

  Niall Horan

  Wife, Fans, Asks

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• If you ask me a question like what is your greatest accomplishment, it should be what I’m about to do

  Kanye West

  Accomplishment, Should, Asks

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