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“Before people outside of the Western European tradition started asking to be in there, the people who were accumulating objects for the museum were perfectly satisfied with the narrative they were constructing.”

People Objects Tradition Asking Western Satisfied Narrative Museums

Author:Kerry James Marshall

“Leadership is about pointing in the direction, articulating a vision of the world that does not yet exist. Then asking help from others to insure that vision happens.”

World Doe Helping Happens Vision Asking Pointing Articulating

Author:Simon Sinek

“The sole relief I am asking for is to be released from military prison after serving six years of confinement as a person who did not intend to harm the interests of the United States or harm any service members.”

Years Persons States Interest United United States Military Members Six Asking Prison Harm Relief Serving Sole Confinement

Author:Chelsea Manning

“I am merely asking for a first chance to live my life outside the [U.S. Disciplinary Barracks] as the person I was born to be.”

Firsts Persons Born Chance Asking Living My Life

Author:Chelsea Manning

“I have served a sufficiently long sentence. I am not asking for a pardon of my conviction.”

Long Asking Conviction Sentences Pardon

Author:Chelsea Manning

“When I was a young kid, my dad, a man of few words, told my brother and me, "Boys, Christmas is about Jesus." I thought about what he said, and I began asking the Christmas questions. I've been asking them ever since. I love the answers I've found.”

Men Said Kids Young Found Jesus Answers Boys Brother Dad Asking My Dad My Brother Few Words

Author:Max Lucado

“Sometimes when you read the Bible, you find yourself asking, "How does this book know that about me? How does it know that about our world - especially when it was written so long ago?"”

Knows World Long Doe Book Sometimes Written Asking Finding Yourself Our World Long Ago

Author:Max Lucado

“When I stop asking questions, something's wrong.”

Asking Asking Questions

Author:Rene Marie

“Any story that gets us thinking, and particularly young people, thinking why? Whether it's as a result of reading the book, or coming out of the theatre or the cinema, I think we should just simply be asking the question 'why'? Why did it happen to those people? Was it necessary? And anything that gets us thinking like that is really important.”

People Thinking Should Important Book Stories Happens Young Reading Results Asking Theatre Cinema Coming Out

Author:Michael Morpurgo

“If you are asking whether states and state actors can only respond through revenge, then you are suggesting that diplomatic solutions are hopeless.”

Ifs States Actors Solutions Asking Revenge Hopeless Suggesting Diplomatic

Author:Judith Butler

“Intersectionality has made an important contribution to social and political analysis, asking all of us to think about what assumptions of race and class we make when we speak about "women" or what assumptions of gender and race we make when we speak about "class." It allows us to unpack those categories and see the various kinds of social formations and power relations that constitute those categories.”

“Smart hiring managers in the modern world should be asking, “How long can you concentrate on a task before you have to take a break?” I wonder how many of them do?”

World Should Long Wonder Break Modern Smart Tasks Asking Managers Modern World Hiring

Author:Kevin Drum

“In the age of the camera phone it's a bit weird when you're sitting having dinner in a restaurant and people think they're being very subtle taking a photo while in fact they're being very obvious. When you're in a middle of a mouthful with friends or family and people come up asking for a photograph, that's when you want to say, 'Actually, I'm going to say no; I'd like to finish my meal. This is my time.'”

People Thinking Want Facts Age Bits Middle Sitting Asking Cameras Photograph Phones Come Up Obvious Dinner Meals My Time Restaurants Subtle

Author:Hugh Bonneville

“When I was researching my very first novel, "The Basic Eight," I was calling right-wing political and religious organizations and asking them to mail me their material so that I could mock them in my novels.”

Firsts Political Religious Novel Materials Calling Organization Asking Wings Eight Mail Right Wing Mock

Author:Daniel Handler

“I stopped asking a long time ago, "why would you want me to play that?" I'm an actor. That's what I do.”

Want Long Play Actors Long Time Asking Want Me Long Time Ago You Want Me

Author:John Hurt

“I do feel there is a certain amount of distance and apathy that's created when you feel like there's a distance between you and the other people. So it's very easy to... when you have an app that sets it up where you very clearly swipe somebody's face off of your screen because you don't like the way they look, you're asking people to not appeal to their best selves. You're asking people to be brutal.”

People Way Feels Looks Self Faces Certain Easy Amount Asking Distance Screens Appeals Apathy Brutal Apps Best Self

Author:Rashida Jones

“We have students at the university say on a regular basis, "You're asking us to think and no one has ever done that in school."”

Thinking Done School Students Bases Asking University

Author:Carol Ann Tomlinson

“The best educators I have met never stop asking questions. Some of them have taught for forty years and continue to be energized by new possibilities.”

Years Possibility Taught Mets Asking Forty Educator Asking Questions New Possibilities

Author:Carol Ann Tomlinson

“This is government's primary function - to keep us safe - and when large percentages in America don't feel safe, they start asking: What am I paying my taxes for? What is government all about?”

Feels Government America Safe Taxes Function Asking Primaries Percentages

Author:Charles Schumer

“When I'm working as a director, I might have an idea of my own but I'm also trying to get great ideas out of my actors. Directing is much more psychological - it's a lot like being a general. And you have to be organized. While you're making a film, you have between 2 and 500 people asking you a billion questions.”

People Trying Ideas Might Film Actors My Own Directors Asking Billions Psychological Organized Great Idea

Author:Julie Taymor

“When I first met Laurence I was Keanu's [Reeves] stunt double on the first Matrix. So, a little evolution there with career status. But then cut to the thirteen/fourteen years later where now I'm asking Laurence Fishburne to trust my directorial capacity [in John Wick 2].”

Years Firsts Littles Careers Cutting Evolution Mets Capacity Asking Fourteen Thirteen

Author:Chad Stahelski

“The habit of going to your congressman's town hall and asking questions, that's powerful in a way that shouting slogans or getting arrested is not, that is completely counterproductive.”

Way Powerful Habit Towns Asking Halls Slogans Arrested Shouting Asking Questions Congressman Counterproductive

Author:David Frum

“We [me and Alex Kendrick] had our pastor's blessing back in 2013 to launch out, and so we shot [ War Room] last year, in 2014, but we still had the church pray over us , before the movie hit theatres, and the pastor was asking God to bless the film, and so we're very excited about what's happening .”

Years Stills War Lasts Past Film Church Rooms Praying Blessing Happenings Shots Asking Excited Theatre Bless Last Year Our Past Pastor Alex Asking God

Author:Stephen Kendrick

“With every movie, we will spend a season of prayer just asking God what's on his heart, and we spent about a year, two years, in prayer, trying to figure out the direction for the next film.”

Trying Years Heart Two Film Next Prayer Figures Seasons Asking Two Years Asking God

Author:Stephen Kendrick

“I want to reduce America's deficit by cutting spending that we don't need but also by asking the wealthy to do a little bit more so that we can invest in things like research and technology that are the key to a 21st century economy.”

Want Needs Littles America Bits Technology Economy Cutting Century Keys Little Bit Research Asking Spending Wealthy 21st Century Deficit

Author:Barack Obama

“When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.”

People Years Talking Asking Tables Restaurants Italian Autographs Julia Marie

Author:Al Pacino

“"Hallelujah" is a joyous expression the Christians have, but "Hare Krishna" has a mystical side to it. It's more than just glorifying God; it's asking to become His servant. And because of the way the mantra is put together, with the mystic spiritual energy contained in those syllables, it's much closer to God than the way Christianity currently seems to be representing Him.”

“I was organizing a fringe meeting at the Conservative Party conference in October 1994 and I got a message that the Prime Minister would like a meeting. I went to the meeting. It was just me and John Major.What Major said to me was this: "If you were in my shoes, what would you do?". He wasn't asking me what a unionist should do, but what he should do. And I knew that I had to give him a sensible answer.”

Ifs Giving Should Said Answers Party Majors Messages Asking Meetings Shoes Conservative Ministers Prime Sensible Prime Minister Conferences Fringe October Conservative Party

Author:David Trimble

“I watched a bunch of kids movies on Christmas. I was kind of joking with our family by asking, "Is anyone allowed to die in a kid's movie anymore?"”

Kind Kids Dies Asking Bunch Our Family Kids Movie

Author:George Saunders

“I'm not shy about asking the customer, because I want to talk about who she is and what she wants from me.”

Want Asking Customers Shy

Author:Victoria Beckham

“It used to be that conservatives who were in government, like myself, we would get what we felt was unfair coverage, we'd go home, we would grumble, we would complain about it, but we actually wouldn't say anything to the reporter or to the reporters while they're asking us additional questions.”

Home Government Used Felt Asking Complaining Used To Be Unfair Reporters Say Anything Coverage

Author:Kris Kobach

“Everybody was telling me to sit my ass down. Everybody was telling me to get a real job. Everybody was asking me, "What are you doing? You're ruining your life. You're embarrassing your family." That's all I got. So you can't listen to that. You have to listen to yourself.”

Real Jobs Asking Ass Our Family Embarrassing Doing You Listen To Yourself Real Jobs

Author:Leslie Jones

“I started asking friends, my white friends around, I said, "What's something that you think all Asians have in common?" They almost always immediately said, "Slanted eyes." I thought that's really interesting. No. 1, it simply isn't true. Not all Asian Americans have slanted eyes, and of course, Asians aren't the only ethnic identities to have them. No. 2, we could talk about our slant on life and what it's like to be people of color, while at the same time, using this outdated and obscure racial slur, and turning it on its head.”

People Thinking Said Eye Courses White Interesting Common Identity Color Asking Obscure Asian Really Interesting Outdated Asian American Slurs Ethnic Identity

Author:Simon Tam

“People were asking me how I'd feel when it all ends, on the first movie [of The Twilight Saga], and I don't think I've ever felt more completely bewildered knowing that I only have a month of Twilight stuff left to do.”

People Thinking Feels Firsts Ends Left Felt Stuff Knowing Months Asking Twilight Bewildered Saga

Author:Robert Pattinson

“I think there's a group of students - whether it's the micro-aggression or the safe space or the trigger warning that garner a lot of attention - but that the fundamental issues that they're more interested in are - and I'll be very frank here - how much money do I pay for a unit? And what is that unit going to do for me when I'm graduating?And even though this is mostly in a progressive landscape, they're asking questions that have not been asked of the university. And the university can't supply answers to them.”

“People will identify with a persecuted minority without asking themselves what they are identifying with.”

People Asking Minorities Identifying Persecuted

Author:Hilary Mantel

“I have no problem in asking a diner to leave for two reasons: 1. If they are rude to my staff. No one has that right. If we make a mistake, allow us to rectify it. 2. If they are loud and abusive at the table. They have no regard or respect for the other diners, who may have worked very hard to save up their cash to afford your prices.”

Ifs May Two Hard Reason Problem Mistake Asking Regard Tables Loud Cash Staff Rude No Problem Abusive Diners Rectify

Author:Marco Pierre White

“I'm not asking you to agree with me, but at least open your mind.”

Mind Asking Agree

Author:Tony Blair

“It's great to be in the position of asking questions and not having to answer questions.”

Answers Position Asking Asking Questions

Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.”

Thinking Way Mean Persons Happens Courses Process Natural Doctors Asking Patient Ill Determine Gods Will Interfere Interference Playing God

Author:Jack Kevorkian

“If you are asking me if my more global purpose is a battle against religion, it is.”

Ifs Purpose Battle Asking Against Religion

Author:Richard Dawkins

“Trump's agenda is not polarizing. A majority of Americans voted for it. A majority of Americans are clamoring for it. A majority of Americans are asking the Republicans in Congress to get off their hands and implement it! Trump's agenda is not polarizing except to the establishment and to the Democrats and the media. But it's not polarizing out in the country.”

Country Hands Media Trump Republican Asking Majority Democrat Congress Agendas Establishment Polarizing

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I don't think we should just 'muddle through' and ignore the question of life's meaning. Or better, perhaps, I don't think it is a question that can be ignored once the business of asking about the worth and significance of what one is doing - one's work, one's pleasures, one's ambitions and so on - has got going. You can't at any point stop the urge to ask Tolstoy's questions, '... and then what?', 'What's the point of that?'.”

Thinking Should Asks Pleasure Ambition Asking Urges Significance Ignored Muddle

Author:David E. Cooper

“Of course, no one should be trapped in bad schools or bad neighborhoods. No one. But I think we need to be asking a larger question: How do we change the norm, the larger context that people seem to accept as a given? Are we so thoroughly resigned to what "is" that we cannot even begin a serious conversation about how to create what ought to be?”

People Thinking Needs Should Seems School Courses Given Accepting Serious Ought Conversation Asking Neighborhood Trapped Norm Resigned

Author:Michelle Alexander

“The women's movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked. I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.”

Feels Whole Moments Political Voice Heard Movement Asking Crucial Political Movements Resonating Crucial Moments

Author:Adrienne Rich

“I am deeply gladdened that 1993 has been delcared the International Year of Indigenous Peoples by the United Nations. It is the first year we have had in five hundred years. This is thanks to the struggle of many untitled, unnamed indigenous brothers who, without understanding international law, patiently walked the corridors asking for some time. Thanks to them this international year has been declared.”

“For the rest of your life you must check the box on employment applications asking the dreaded question: "Have you ever been convicted of a felony?" And once you check that box, the odds are sky high that your application is going straight to the trash. Hundreds of professional licenses are off-limits to people convicted of felonies.”

People Sky Limits Asking Boxes Checks Employment Application Odds License Trash Rest Of Your Life Felony Licenses Sky High

Author:Michelle Alexander

“I'm asking people to think critically and not to be lazy in their thinking.”

People Thinking Asking Lazy

Author:Naomi Wolf

“Modern neuroimaging is like asking an astronaut in the space shuttle to look out the window and judge how America is doing.”

Looks America Space Modern Judging Window Asking Astronaut Space Shuttle

Book:Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

“Do I believe in God? Can't answer, I'm afraid. I'm not being flippant, but I don't understand the question. What is it that I am supposed to believe or not believe in? Are you asking whether I believe there is something not in the universe (or the universes, if there are (maybe infinitely) many of them), and that somehow stands above them? I've never heard of any reason for believing that.”

Ifs Believe Reason Universe I Believe Answers Heard Asking I Believe In Believe In God I Believe In God Flippant

Author:Noam Chomsky

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