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“I thought I was dreaming. It was the most amazing moment of my entire life. Not only is Bill the love of my life, but he's also my best friend. I couldn't believe my dream guy was asking me to marry him!”

Believe Moments Dream Guy Friendship Asking Bills My Best Friend Most Amazing Love Of My Life

Author:Giuliana Rancic

“I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.”

Literature Asking Asking Questions

Author:Anne Rice

“A player dreams of being a superstar, but he doesn't want people flocking all over him asking for an autograph.”

People Want Dream Player Basketball Asking Autographs Superstar

Author:Dennis Rodman

“In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?”

Way Years May Persons Use Growth Change Healing Relationship Treats Asking Personal Growth Cures Phrases Psychotherapy

Book:On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy

Source: On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy

“People are always asking me why they don't make Westerns like they used to.”

People Used Asking

Author:Roy Rogers

“The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.”

Ifs Way Political Politics Prayer Party Lord Clear Ought Republican Humorous Asking Democrat Bless Conventions Republican Party Carrying On

Book:Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)

Source: Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)

“Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.”

Kids Laughing Self Esteem Greatness Ocean Asking Receiving New Beginnings Buckets Successful Life Teaspoons

Author:Jim Rohn

“If you believe the disappointments - if you believe the disappointments in the last few years are a detour and not our destiny, then I'm asking for your vote.”

Ifs Years Believe Lasts Destiny Vote Asking Disappointment Our Destiny If You Believe Detours

Author:Mitt Romney

“Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.”

Inspiration Adults Asking Philosopher Persist

Author:Isaiah Berlin

“The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.”

Thinking World Doe Asks Our Lives Events Masters Shapes Asking Victim Agency Passive

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.”

Thinking Men Science Women Simple Mistake Mouths Scientist Asking Teeth Devices Fewer Avoided

Book:The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

“No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?”

Doe Has Beens Real Matter Beautiful Wonder Beauty Mystery Singing Asking Usual Chimneys Hoot Mockingbird

Author:Bertrand Russell

“Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall power and salability of their work. Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast.”

Art Artist Order Sound Heard Wind Wall Increase Asking Photographer Beast Print Maximum Rumor Gallery

Author:Jerry Saltz

“If you ask men why they did a good job, they'll say, 'I'm awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?' If you ask women why they did a good job, what they'll say is someone helped them, they got lucky, they worked really hard.”

Ifs Men Hard Jobs Asks Lucky Asking Good Job

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.”

Writing Poetry Literature Shadow Asking Dance Poetry Is Poetic Echoes Just Dance Inspirational Dance Short Dance Great Poetry

Author:Carl Sandburg

“In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage.”

Remember Speak Easy Interest Audience Fine Asking Shy Remember When Asking Questions Answering Questions

Author:Vikram Seth

“Duh! So, we're asking you now, what are some of your favorite lines that this warlock brain produced?”

Lines Brain Asking Your Favorite Warlocks Duh

Author:Charlie Sheen

“I am on the power toothbrush train and I'm asking people to try to using an Oral B power toothbrush. I just started using one and I cannot believe that I waited this long to use a power toothbrush. It's so much easier than using a manual toothbrush.”

People Trying Believe Long Use Easier Asking Train Manuals Toothbrushes

Author:Sherri Shepherd

“If you ask someone if they like music, they look at you strangely. It seems to be a universal given. Like asking someone if they like breathing. It is like breathing. Or air, rather. Flowing without and within. A matrix within which our lives are set. The setting for the tableware of our beings.”

Ifs Looks Seems Asks Given Our Lives Air Universal Asking Setting Settings Breathing

Author:Jane Siberry

“I've played journalists before Elles, and I have good friends who are journalists. I think being an actor is not very far from being a journalist. Because you investigate, you try to understand, you're asking questions, you're interested in the other.”

Thinking Trying Actors Asking Journalist Good Friend Asking Questions

Author:Juliette Binoche

“Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.”

Ifs Children Running Kids Funny Asks Laughter Humorous Asking Parenting Silly Sentimental Bedtime Errands Asking For Help

Author:Red Skelton

“I don't miss anything about the 1960s, not really. I did it. It's like asking, 'Do you miss the fourth grade?' I loved the fourth grade when I was in it, but I don't want to do it again.”

Want Missing Asking Grades Fourth 1960s Fourth Grade

Author:Grace Slick

“When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.”

Time Dies Listening Diversity Asking Social Justice Asking Questions

Author:Lillian Smith

“Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a formal condition of the epic form. And those taught that they deserve nothing rightly enjoy it when they succeed in terms the culture understands.”

Form Culture Stuff Enjoy Term Forever Conditions Taught Succeed Deserve Army Asking Heavenly Attributes Rapper Epic Formal Boast Milton Asking Why

Author:Zadie Smith

“People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.”

People Asking Iceland

Author:Bjork

“By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas.”

Writing Done Reading Literature Speak Novel Areas Asking Various Variety Genre Mechanic Asking Questions

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“We are not utilizing the Iraqi oil for U.S. purposes. We are not asking that the Iraqi oil be used to pay our military expenses. We are asking only that the Iraqi oil be used to rebuild Iraq - that is, to rebuild Iraq for the Iraqi people.”

People Used Purpose Pay Military Asking Iraq Oil Expenses Utilizing

Author:Arlen Specter

“Everybody's always asking me about my blood pressure. They did an interview once where they hooked me up to a blood pressure machine and they'd rile me. I'd yell and scream, and then it would just go back to normal in a few minutes. Everything else is probably rotting, but the blood pressure is spectacular.”

Blood Minutes Normal Machines Pressure Asking Interviews Scream Spectacular Hooked Rotting Blood Pressure

Author:Lewis Black

“Writing is the process of asking the next logical question.”

Writing Next Process Asking Logical

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases.”

Way Looks Motivational Motivation Cases Asking Science And Religion Methodology Wellspring

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs.”

People Thinking Way Country Poor Our Lives Asking Impact Developing Engagement Poor People Developing Countries

Author:Emma Thompson

“Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.”

Ifs Mean Religion Hurt Religious Answers Existence Willing Asking

Book:The Essential Tillich

Source: The Essential Tillich

“The fans have been great to me. I don't think it's asking too much to have me sign something for them.”

Thinking Has Beens Too Much Fans Asking Asking Too Much

Author:Justin Timberlake

“It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.”

People Pain Happiness Joy Levels Brain Terrible Activity Degrees Asking Observation Sublime Electrical Measuring

Author:Polly Toynbee

“I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.”

Girl Asking Planes Tickets Aeroplanes

Author:Orlando Bloom

“'Long Black Train' was inspired by a vision that I had of a long, black train running down this track way out in the middle of nowhere. I could see people standing out to the sides of this track watching this train go by. As I was walking, experiencing this vision, I kept asking myself, 'What does this vision mean and what is this train?'”

People Way Mean Long Doe Running Sides Black Vision Middle Walking Standing Asking Train Inspired Track Standing Out Middle Of Nowhere

Author:Josh Turner

“For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.”

People Trying Humans White Please Goodness Racism Asking Sake

Author:Desmond Tutu

“If you're asking if my breasts are natural, yes, this is how I've looked since I was 13 years old.”

Ifs Years Natural Asking Breasts

Author:Sofia Vergara

“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.”

“It's pretty clear that over the last three months the economy has paused. And it's also pretty clear the American people are still demanding and asking the question, 'Where are the jobs?' And the reason we don't have new jobs is because of the job-killing agenda pursued by President Obama and his allies in the Congress.”

People Stills Reason Jobs Lasts Three President Economy Clear Months Asking Killing Congress Agendas Allies President Obama Pursued Three Months New Job

Author:John Boehner

“All my friends and peers keep asking me when I'm going to rest - I just tell them it's another dirty four-letter word!”

Four My Friends Letters Asking Dirty Peers Naughty Four Letter Words

Author:Dionne Warwick

“Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.”

Want Pay Impossible Asking Again And Again Salary

Author:Ethel Waters

“I paint and I draw and I write and I do other things too, and recently some people at school were asking if I'd ever publish any of my work. But I almost feel like I would have to publish it under another name because there's a definition of me out there that feels kind of stuck in the moment when it was formed.”

People Ifs Feels Writing Kind Moments School Names Draws Asking Paint Definitions Stuck Publish

Author:Emma Watson

“My legs have become accustomed to the treadmill. And in L.A., running on the street is asking for a distracted texting driver to knock you over.”

Running Streets Asking Legs Drivers Accustomed Distracted Texting Treadmills

Author:Michael Weatherly

“I call on people to be 'obsessed citizens,' forever questioning and asking for accountability. That's the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.”

People Today Chance Forever Citizens Healthy Asking Obsessed Accountability Happy Life Questioning Healthy And Happy

Author:Ai Weiwei

“Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.”

People Children Literature Parent Can Do Written Asking Critical

Book:Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession

Source: Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession

“It sounds so cheesy, but there's something very powerful about looking in the mirror and asking yourself a question. Because I think it's really hard to lie.”

Thinking Hard Lying Sound Powerful Asking Mirrors Very Powerful Cheesy Looking In The Mirror

Author:Kristen Wiig

“People have nervous tics they don't know about, and I would advise asking around. Ask the casting director, 'Is there something I'm doing?' I would see people unconsciously rocking back and forth. I roll my lips. I bite my lips and roll them.”

People Knows Asks Directors Asking Lips Nervous Bites Casting Advise Back And Forth Casting Directors Tics

Author:Olivia Wilde

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”

Source: Aphorisms

“In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.”

Want Might Past Political Used President Possibility Asking Green Notion Features Bad Things Cheer Cheer Me Up

Author:A. N. Wilson

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