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“To be part of Kevin's [Drew] world, "Who Came First" is just kind of a magical symphony. If you're asking me what that emotional timbre what is my favorite, my favorite "why" is the question. The other songs also have a revealing quality, but it started with "Sister OK".”

Ifs World Firsts Kind Song Quality Emotional Asking My Favorite Revealing Symphony Kevin Timbre

Author:Andy Kim

“Theirs is the party that ... responds to the death of Americans at Benghazi by asking, What difference does it make?”

Doe Differences Party Asking Benghazi

Author:Ted Cruz

“I do travel a lot, because I need oxygen, I need to go to places to meet people who aren't upset at me because I'm asking for peace.”

People Needs Asking Upset Oxygen

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“I think the whole experience of being a human being on the planet is such a mystery, to be honest. Trying to figure out one's purpose and [asking] "What is it all about?"”

Thinking Trying Humans Whole Purpose Human Beings Mystery Honest Figures Planets Asking Being Honest

Author:Annie Lennox

“Not all Scripture is propositional, some of it is asking questions, some of it's rhetorical, but where Scripture is stating something, asserting something, making a truth claim, uttering a proposition that is claiming to be true, it is the truth.”

Claims Asking Scripture Being True Propositions Asking Questions Rhetorical

Author:D. A. Carson

“The thing I remember the most was not understanding why, if you were doing the right thing, then why did people want to kill you? I remember asking my parents, 'Why is it when people are trying to help other people then they're dying?'”

People Ifs Want Trying Helping Remember Parent Understanding Dying Asking Helping Others Right Thing Doing The Right Thing Understanding Why

Author:Sandra Bullock

“I thought it was interesting when [Bill Clinton] said, I married my best friend, because people are always asking, what is the nature of their marriage.”

People Said Interesting Married Asking Bills Clinton My Best Friend

Author:Terry Gross

“The interesting thing is that you don't have to know the answers - simply asking the questions and your reflection itself causes the rewiring of the brain.”

Knows Causes Answers Interesting Brain Reflection Asking Interesting Things

Author:Deepak Chopra

“I don't go into any album with a concept or a deliberate direction. It's more letting the best music that really appeals to me at the time, the best songs that I find after many months and years of search and sifting through my collection, and asking radio people and journalists. It's really an ongoing search that's as much daunting as it is somewhat exciting.”

People Years Song Months Concepts Exciting Asking Radio Albums Appeals Journalist Collections Deliberate Ongoing Sifting

Author:Bonnie Raitt

“Some people make movies and think, "Well, I'll just keep asking for more money if this isn't enough." And then there are other people, like Clint Eastwood, who always come in under budget.”

People Ifs Thinking Wells Enough Asking Budgets More Money

Author:Judd Apatow

“It's definitely a unique situation that we're in. And, yeah, it is difficult not having our ringleader here with us to talk about the film [the Waitress], not having our main person here. People are also asking in relation to the film: what would Adrienne [ Shelly] say about this or that? But I don't know. I don't know what she would say.”

People Knows Persons Film Difficult Situation Unique Relation Asking Yeah Waitress

Author:Keri Russell

“I just started asking my friends if they had noticed. None of them - feminists, mothers, daughters - noticed until I pointed it out. Then I decided to bring it up within the industry. I knew a lot of people, so I'd say, "Have you ever noticed how few female characters there are in kids movies?" when I met a director, a producer, whatever. And they said, "Oh, but that's not true anymore."”

People Ifs Said Character Kids Mother Industry Mets Directors Daughter My Friends Female Decided Asking Feminist Producers They Said Female Characters Mother Daughter Kids Movie

Author:Geena Davis

“When I started out, maybe because I did Thelma & Louise early on - but people were always asking, "Are things better for women now?" I would say, "Yeah, I think so. It seems like it." Then a few years in, I started saying, "I think so. I'm getting a lot of good parts, but I don't know." Then eventually, I was like, "Google it. I don't know, but it doesn't seem great."”

People Thinking Knows Years Seems Asking Yeah Google

Author:Geena Davis

“If you don't have customers to sell to, you can't commit to anything with textile factories or manufacturing factories because you don't know if you'll be able to sell the quantities they're asking you to fill.”

Ifs Knows Able Asking Sells Customers Commit Factories Quantity Manufacturing Textiles

Author:Fred Foster

“I've learned that I don't want to be as open or public about relationships anymore. In my first relationship, I thought I could hold on to the normalcy of just being like "Yeah, we're dating," just like if it were high school and I was telling my friends. But in high school, there aren't articles written everywhere when you break up and you don't have everyone in the school coming up to you and asking what happened or sharing their opinion with you. It didn't feel like ours anymore, it felt like everybody else's.”

Ifs Want Feels Firsts School Felt Opinion Break Written Happened High School My Friends Dating Asking Yeah I've Learned Articles Just Being Up To You Normalcy

Author:Camila Cabello

“My four-year-old daughter regularly requests reading Book One [the March] at bedtime; the methods of reading, delivering, and processing the book's content vary according to a kid's age and developmental level, but she's deeply affected by the story, asking follow-up questions for days.”

Years Book Stories Kids Age Reading Levels Four Daughter Asking Method March Affected Four Years Reading Books Request Vary Delivering Bedtime Processing Developmental Follow Up

Author:Nate Powell

“I don't tally the world, asking, "Would this annoy you? Would this annoy you?" That's so far removed from where I'm at when I'm in the trenches struggling with how to express things that I don't fully understand myself.”

World Struggle Asking Annoying Trenches

Author:Miranda July

“I have this habit of asking 'why do you want to do it?' and then interrupting them to say, 'here's why you want to do it.' Because it's in the 'yes...and' spirit [rule of improvisation].”

Want Spirit Habit Asking Improvisation Interrupting Asking Why

Author:Mike Birbiglia

“If you shift your mindset to asking "How can I initiate change that's good for my family, and my community, and my career, and my private self (mind, body and spirit)? then you are more likely to produce harmony in your life, over the course of your life.”

Ifs Mind Self Body Spirit Courses Community Careers Produce My Family Harmony Asking Mindset Initiate Mind Body Mind Body And Spirit

Author:Stewart D. Friedman

“People keep asking me if recently performing the Betty album will influence the song-writing and I think it might. There's songs on that record that I forgot about and it's really nice to have that variety in the set along with tracks from Strap It On, Meantime, Aftertaste, Size Matters, Monochrome, and Seeing Eye Dog.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Matter Might Eye Song Records Nice Seeing Influence Dog Asking Size Track Albums Variety Performing Really Nice Monochrome

Author:Page Hamilton

“Without even asking, the paparazzi is following me around and I'm like, "I'm just a regular girl from Philly. I don't know why you guys are following me. This is really weird."And then the entire world is ridiculing me for things I've never even done.”

Knows World Done Guy Girl Asking Following Paparazzi Really Weird

Author:Amber Rose

“Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much.”

Different Body Would Be Asks Hurt Too Much Tasks Asking Seven Athlete Ache

Author:Jackie Joyner-Kersee

“I'm asking : if the Kosovars have the right to self-determination, why should people on Crimea not have it? I would say: everyone should comply with uniform international rules and not want to change them any time one feels like it.”

People Ifs Want Feels Should Self Determination Asking International Self Determination Uniforms Crimea

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Mostly people are interested in how somebody becomes an actor. And then, if they've had a couple of drinks, they want to know what Demi Moore's like or whatever. I mean, I don't mind people asking that at all, but when you've answered it five times...”

People Ifs Knows Want Mind Mean Actors Five Couple Drink Asking

Author:Rob Lowe

“The point is Hillary Clinton's campaign is the first one to ask about Barack Obama legitimity because all she does is engage in negative campaigning against Barack Obama and against Donald Trump.”

Firsts Doe Trump Negative Asking Clinton Campaigns Barack Campaigning

Author:Rudy Giuliani

“A skeptic is one who is willing to question any truth claim, asking for clarity in definition, consistency in logic, and adequacy of evidence.”

Willing Evidence Logic Claims Asking Definitions Clarity Consistency Skeptic Adequacy

Author:Paul Kurtz

“In talking about equality and asking vehemently for its realization, nobody advocates a curtailment of his own present income.”

Talking Asking Income Realization

Book:Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses

Source: Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses

“The player may experiment about with his swing, his grip, his stance. It is only when he begins asking his caddie's advice that he is getting on dangerous ground.”

May Player Advice Dangerous Asking Golf Experiments Swings Stance Caddies

Author:Charles Walter Simpson

“I am looking to have a place under the sun for our new generations to live in peace far away from repression, from terrorism, to live as human beings freely in this free world. That is what I am looking for. I am not asking for the moon. I am asking for the United Nations legality to be implemented.”

World Humans Nations Human Beings United Sun Generations Moon Asking Terrorism Far Away United Nations Repression New Generation Being Free Free World Legality

Author:Yasser Arafat

“My main goal was to not tell my mom anything or anyone anything. Even within our family, we like to do it ourselves, we like to be our own boss, and we don't like asking for help.”

Helping Goal Mom Asking My Mom Our Family Boss Asking For Help

Author:Jillian Hervey

“If you're asking me have I purchased a CD, a DVD or downloaded a current artist? The answer is no.”

Ifs Artist Answers Asking Currents Cds Dvds

Author:John Seagall

“Someone asked me recently, "Do you get sick of people asking you about your hair?" And the reason I don't is because I actually feel like you could chronicle my journey of self-acceptance through my journey with my hair. It's a badge of something bigger.”

People Feels Self Reason Journey Acceptance Like You Hair Sick Bigger Asking Self Acceptance Badges Chronicles My Journey

Author:Tracee Ellis Ross

“Getting to a place where I am comfortable saying things was hard-earned for me. I've chewed on the ground glass of my own experience. I saw Gloria Steinem speak, and I was just like, Shut the front door. She was saying that she didn't come into her own until her 40s, and she was asking herself the question, Why should she have to get married? And I just thank God someone asked that question, right? I think we're the first generation of women asking ourselves certain questions and deciding for ourselves.”

Thinking Should Firsts Hard Certain Speak My Own Saws Generations Doors Fronts Comfortable Married Asking Glasses Thank God Front Doors Gloria

Author:Tracee Ellis Ross

“You can experience play at work, not because you're messing around or wasting time or something, but because you're looking really deeply and seriously at things and asking what is possible, what can be done with them, what new ideas might emerge?”

Ideas Done Play Might Asking Wasting Time New Ideas Really Deep

Author:Ian Bogost

“I think, in terms of the media, journalists need to do a much better job of asking people they interview about conflicts of interest and then reporting them.”

People Thinking Needs Jobs Term Interest Media Conflict Asking Journalist Interviews Better Jobs Conflict Of Interest

Author:Michael F. Jacobson

“In the face of uncertainty, many companies will default to asking their innovators to study and analyze, which can't actually ever provide a definitive answer.”

Faces Answers Company Study Asking Uncertainty Default Innovators

Author:Scott D. Anthony

“In the face of uncertainty, many companies will default to asking their innovators to study and analyze, which can't actually ever provide a definitive answer. The decision-making systems here are meant to deal with the reality that decisions about innovative ideas will rely on patterns and intuitions. The best venture capital organizations deal with this challenge by staging investment, actively participating in startups they fund, tying decisions to learning as opposed to artificial dates on the calendar, and assembling a diverse team of decision-makers.”

“In some way they are all self-portraits, but I think I know what you mean by asking this - I would say, it is too idealistic to paint yourself.”

Thinking Knows Way Mean Self Asking Paint Portraits Idealistic Self Portrait

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“The expectations of the viewer are what you're asking about. And the expectations of the viewer are manifold. However, they are very fixed, given who I am in the world. People have certain expectations of me as an artist.”

People World Artist Certain Given Expectations Asking Who I Am Fixed Viewers Manifold

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“I think it's pointless asking questions like "Will humanity survive?" It's purely up to people - if they want to, they can, if they don't want to, they won't.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Humanity Asking Pointless Asking Questions

Author:Bill Mollison

“People are always asking, "Is this person in front of me the same on the inside as he or she appears to be on the outside? Is there congruence between what's within that person and the words and actions I'm viewing and hearing externally?" Children ask that about their parents; students ask it about their teachers; parishioners ask it about their pastors and priests; employees ask it about their bosses; and in a democracy, citizens ask it about their political leaders.”

“One of the things that got me transitioning from physical science to brain science was asking, Why do we understand so much about the universe?”

Universe Brain Asking Physical Science Asking Why Brain Science

Author:Edward Boyden

“Asking others for input puts you in the driver's seat, and may feel less awkward than having to watch yourself on video.”

Feels May Watches Asking Video Seats Drivers Awkward Input

Author:Laurie Helgoe

“No one comes up to me asking for a crack dealer's number. People come up to me to talk about lyrics, about music, about the band.”

People Numbers Band Asking Come Up Cracks Dealer

Author:Pete Doherty

“I'm so scared of doing theater. I've got stage fright, although they keep asking me to come back.”

Stage Theater Asking Scared Fright Stage Fright

Author:Tim Roth

“I'm good at asking other people questions, but I'm not really good at answering questions.”

People Asking Answering Questions

Author:Samantha Bee

“Every time I'm in a foreign place and a different city, I'm always asking around to say, OK, well, what's special here in this particular place? What makes these people move here and why?”

People Wells Different Moving Cities Special Particular Asking Foreign Places

Author:DJ /rupture

“You might want to keep trying to rise, using a path that builds on your natural strengths: sales, analysis, managing people, whatever, and keep asking for honest feedback. When you reach the point at which it feels clear you've topped out, revise your job description or take a step back. Up is not the only way.”

People Way Want Feels Trying Might Jobs Natural Steps Path Clear Honest Asking Analysis Description Feedback Keep Trying Managing People Honest Feedback

Author:Marty Nemko

“I think my mom gets weirded out, sometimes, by people knowing so much about me or people always asking questions.”

People Thinking Sometimes Knowing Mom Asking My Mom Asking Questions

Author:Ashley Greene

“As champions of green jobs, we're asking questions that progressives should like, like "How are we going to avoid baking the planet," and "How are we going to create jobs for ordinary Americans?" Meanwhile, we're offering solutions that conservative should like. I'm not calling for more welfare; I'm calling for more work.”

Should Jobs Planets Calling Solutions Ordinary Asking Green Conservative Welfare Champion Offering Baking Asking Questions

Author:Van Jones

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