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“Any actress will tell you - it's really hard. If you're not an A-list Hollywood movie star, if you're in the middle, there are people who assume you wouldn't do certain things without even asking you, when actually you probably would. And there are people who always think you are busy doing something else.”

People Ifs Thinking Hard Certain Stars Middle Hollywood Asking Assuming Busy Actresses Lists Movie Star Hollywood Movies

Author:Martine McCutcheon

“Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.”

Years Has Beens Past Ten Hundred Asking Management Indian Fifty

Book:Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire

Source: Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire

“I stopped beating up on myself. I stopped asking myself why I didn't sell this number of records, why I don't have corporate sponsorship. I just don't buy into any of that anymore.”

Numbers Records Asking Sells Corporate Sponsorship

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“Perhaps we should wait until his second term begins before carving Barack Obama's face in Mount Rushmore. Is that asking too much?”

Should Faces Waiting Term Too Much Asking Barack Carving Mount Rushmore Asking Too Much

Author:Ron Fournier

“Adolescence begins when children stop asking questions-because they know all the answers.”

Knows Children Funny Answers Asking Adolescence April Asking Questions April Fools Day

Author:Evan Esar

“I don't like swearing on the air. As a matter of fact, I'm not a prude, but I go to the movies and then wonder - I asked myself the same question, and I watch HBO and some of the comedy stuff, and I'm constantly asking myself, why have we gone there? It seems like it's unfortunate. It's so cheap.”

Matter Facts Seems Easy Stuff Watches Gone Comedy Air Asking Unfortunate Matter Of Fact Swearing Hbo Prudes

Author:Brian Lamb

“You have this impression from England that New Yorkers can be quite aggressive, but certainly the people that I've bumped into and the friends I've made here don't seem that way. Just walking down the street and asking for directions, people seem to be very helpful and happy to help.”

People Way Made Helping Seems Streets Walking England Asking Impression Helpful Aggressive New Yorkers

Author:Archie Panjabi

“There are directors who, their direction is high, but then when you challenge it, it crumbles. They can't back up what they're asking.”

Challenges Directors Asking

Author:Michael Pitt

“I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone.”

Has Beens Asks Asking Asking Questions

Author:Trevor Phillips

“The thing that drives me crazy is when comics say 'I have low self-esteem.' No you don't. You're standing on stage asking people to pay. You don't play an instrument. You want people to pay to hear what's in your mind. You don't have low self-esteem. You might have other problems.”

People Want Mind Self Play Problem Might Pay Crazy Stage Self Esteem Lows Standing Asking Instruments Esteem Low Self Esteem Drive Me Crazy

Author:Colin Quinn

“Customers don't know what they want. There's plenty of good psychology research that shows that people are not able to accurately predict how they would behave in the future. So asking them, 'Would you buy my product if it had these three features?' or 'How would you react if we changed our product this way?' is a waste of time. They don't know.”

People Ifs Knows Way Want Shows Able Three Psychology Changed Products Waste Research Asking Customers Plenty Features Behave Wasting Time

Author:Eric Ries

“When we were in the design studio I always was pretending like I was in a closet asking my friend before I step out into the world what do I look like? And everybody wants that honest friend before they go and go to dinner or go to an event.”

World Want Looks Steps Honest Events Design My Friends Asking Studios Dinner Pretending Closets Honest Friends

Author:Nicole Richie

“I like Betsy Ross as a model, too, the quilting bee, sitting around with your friends making art, asking what they think, so that you get the benefit of everyone's opinions and so it's not just about you in your you-dom.”

Thinking Art Opinion Benefits Models Sitting Asking Bees Sitting Around Doms Quilting Betsy Ross

Author:Kiki Smith

“The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what your mind does. What it does is become discontent with that-which-is. A desire arises, you satisfy that desire, and another arises in its place.”

Mind Doe Eye Moving Desire Watches Machines Asking Refuse Arise Discontent

Book:The Brain-Dead Megaphone

Source: The Brain-Dead Megaphone

“Be careful of someone who starts asking a lot of questions about you. Start asking a lot of questions about them. Turn it around.”

Turns Asking Careful Be Careful

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Clark, what in your honest opinion is the right standard for determining conduct? Is the only right standard for everyone, the probable action of Jesus Christ? Would you say that the highest, best law for a man to live by was contained in asking the question 'What would Jesus do?' And then doing it regardless of results? In other words, do you think men everywhere ought to follow Jesus' example as closely as they can in their daily lives?”

Thinking Men Action Law Jesus Christ Results Christianity Opinion Honest Example Ought Highest Standards Jesus Christ Asking Christian Life Daily Life Live By

Author:Charles Sheldon

“Maybe if you stopped asking "why" all the time, you might be happy. Leave it alone, you know? Life is happy.”

Ifs Knows Might Happiness Life Is Buddhism Asking Asking Why

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I checked to see if there’d been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what Cleopatra would have read, asking myself, “What can we know about her education?” It turns out to be a very great deal, and bizarrely, no one had written about that before.”

Ifs Knows Book Lasts Turns Deals Written Asking Decades Good Book

Author:Stacy Schiff

“My children are the focal point of my life. I was asking for a little more time to spend with them.”

Children Littles Asking My Children More Time Focal Point

Author:Hunter Tylo

“I remember Mick Jagger asking me 'hey, how do you guys feel about us coming over here and taking all the play from you guys?' I said 'Well, in a way, you have eliminated all my competition.”

Way Feels Wells Said Play Remember Guy Asking Competition Hey Jagger

Author:Bobby Vinton

“Ever since I'm done with Zim everyone thinks that I'm going to go back to comics. I've been flooded with emails asking me if I'm working on the new Johnny over and over again.”

Ifs Thinking Done Asking Email

Author:Jhonen Vasquez

“I don't give advice. 90% of the time nobody takes it anyway. I will give encouragement and if asked a question as to how, or why I did certain things and if I think this will help whomever is asking the question I will do this.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Helping Certain Advice Encouragement Asking

Author:Dionne Warwick

“Everyone today is like, 'Shailene, you're getting so much buzz. How does the feel?' It's the most odd question because it's like asking a kid who got into Cornell how it feels to be the top of your class at one of the Ivy League schools. How do you answer that? You just go, 'I don't know.”

Knows Feels Doe Kids Today School Answers Class Asking Odd League Ivy Buzz Ivy League Ivy League Schools

Author:Shailene Woodley

“It is also worth asking whether the strict limitations of Geneva make sense in a war against terrorists.”

War Asking Terrorist Limitation Make Sense Strict Geneva

Author:John Yoo

“If we think systematically, we will stop asking, How much is nature worth? We will know that we are a piece of nature ourselves.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Nature Pieces Asking

Author:Karl-Henrik Robert

“We honor God by asking for great things when they are a part of His promise. We dishonor Him and cheat ourselves when we ask for molehills where He has offered mountains.”

Christian Asks Honor Promise Mountain Asking Christian Inspirational Great Things Cheat Dishonor

Author:Vance Havner

“I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.”

Kind Asks Leadership Asking Strive Ask Me Interviews Introducing

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided.”

Trying Problem Running Fear Focus Fields Football Asking Defense Hardest Defenders Football Field

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled.”

Ifs Shows Five Comedy Generations Female Asking Comedian Mail Festivals Pitching Amy Stand Up Comedian

Author:Wendy Liebman

“To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It's - I think they might use too much oil in their hummus - but it's the wrong question.”

Thinking Use Might Asks Too Much Media Asking Conservative Oil Als Mainstream Bias Mainstream Media Might Use Hummus

Author:Al Franken

“I'm asking regular folks to be my super PAC.”

Asking Folks Pacs

Author:Claire McCaskill

“The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.”

Doe Identity Shapes Asking Marvelous Good Questions Marvelous Things

Author:David Whyte

“Asking anyone what she or he is reading is a necessary part of conversation, exchanging news. So I take recommendations from friends - and I always pass along a book I've loved.”

Book Reading Conversation News Asking Recommendations Exchanging

Author:Marianne Wiggins

“Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing?”

Trying Doe Art Artist Three Asking Photographer Appropriate Modest

Book:Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

Source: Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

“When people asked Socrates, ‘What is wisdom?’ he always gave the same answer: ‘I don’t know’. In fact, Socrates never claimed to know much of anything except how to ask questions. And by asking questions, he would prove to other people that they didn’t know what they thought they knew.”

People Knows Facts Asks Answers Prove Asking Asking Questions

Author:Jim Rohn

“The kids who need the most love will ask for it in the most unloving ways”

Way Love Needs Children Kids Asks Psychology Asking

Author:Russell Barkley

“There was a brief moment after 9/11 when Colin Powell said we "should not rush to satisfy the desire for revenge." It was a great moment, an extraordinary moment, because what he was actually asking people to do was to stay with a sense of grief, mournfulness, and vulnerability.”

People Should Said Moments Desire Grief Asking Extraordinary Revenge Vulnerability Great Moments Well Said Brief Moments Extraordinary Moments

Author:Judith Butler

“May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.”

Heart May Given Compassion Imagine My Heart Difficulty Asking Appropriate

Author:Jack Kornfield

“You don't buy all the clothes in the market. You choose slowly and carefully, asking the prices for each before buying. The same way you choose your friends, by looking into their lives carefully, before taking any as a companion, then dropping those that are not relevant.”

Way Clothes Asking Buying Companion Relevant You Choose Dropping

Author:Michael Bassey

“If you have competence, you know the edge. It wouldnt be a competence if you didnt know where the boundaries lie. Asking whether youve passed the boundary is a question that almost answers itself.”

Ifs Knows Lying Answers Asking Edges Boundaries Competence

Author:Charlie Munger

“Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it's a title. Don't go around asking executive producers what they do because they don't do anything, alright?”

Jobs Let Me Asking Producers Titles Executives Alright

Author:Morgan Freeman

“You need philosophy. It sounds a little pompous but I think when you direct a film, the only way to find a response to the questions you keep asking yourself is to have a philosophy.”

Thinking Way Needs Littles Philosophy Film Sound Direct Asking Response Pompous

Author:Michel Gondry

“Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from and here in the West - but it is only in the brain that we can eventually hope to find the answers.”

Mind Has Beens Three Asks Answers Brain India Asking West Philosopher Fascinating Lofty

Author:Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

“If you focus on near-term growth above all else, you miss the most important question you should be asking: will this business still be around a decade from now?”

Ifs Should Stills Important Growth Term Focus Missing Asking Decades Important Questions

Book:Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Source: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“I would say that for the sake of human progress, the best thing we could possibly do would be to diminish, to the point of eliminating, religious faiths. But certainly not eliminating the natural yearnings of our species or the asking of these great questions.”

Humans Would Be Natural Religious Progress Asking Species Sake Best Things Yearning Diminish Religious Faith Eliminating Human Progress

Author:E. O. Wilson

“Just got off the phone with my health care provider asking them to explain why my premium jumped up. No good answer!”

Care Answers Asking Phones Health Care Providers Premium

Author:Donna Brazile

“Creativity doesn’t come from glancing quickly at your Twitter feed while in line at Starbucks. It comes from deep thought. It comes from voraciously reading books—long books that require focused attention. It comes from meaningful discourse with other intellectually curious people. It comes from listening and asking good questions.”

People Long Book Reading Lines Attention Creativity Listening Asking Focused Meaningful Curious Reading Books Discourse Deep Thought Starbucks Good Questions Long Book Focused Attention

Author:Joshua Rogers

“Gestures and facial expressions do indeed communicate, as anyone can prove by turning off the sound on a television set and asking watchers to characterize the speakers from the picture alone.”

Sound Television Expression Communication Prove Asking Communicate Gestures Speakers Facial Watchers Facial Expression

Book:Word Play: What Happens When People Talk

Source: Word Play: What Happens When People Talk

“Block Watch, Crime Watch, we have hundreds of thousands of Americans, every day and night, risking their lives, going out for no pay as volunteers, protecting Americans like all of you and not asking anything in return. And the other day I'm speaking in a high school in New Jersey and the youngsters go, oh, you're just like Zimmerman.”

School Night Pay Watches Crime Return High School Asking Block Going Out Volunteer Jersey Day And Night New Jersey Youngsters Zimmerman

Author:Curtis Sliwa

“Human beings cannot probe the mind of God by asking themselves what they would do if they were God. They are men and not God. And if they are virtuous men, they will wait for God to reveal himself under conditions of his own choosing.”

Ifs Men Mind Humans God Waiting Human Beings Conditions Asking Virtuous

Author:Edward John Carnell