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“Gerard Houllier's thoughts on the matter international football echo mine. He thinks that what the national coaches are doing is like taking the car from his garage without even asking permission. They will then use the car for ten days and abandon it in a field without any petrol left in the tank. We then have to recover it, but it is broken down. Then a month later they will come to take your car again, and for good measure you're expected to be nice about it.”

“Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.”

Knows Children Conscience Asking Our Children Stranger Bother Classmates

Author:Ben Stein

“Nooooooo... favorite film, that's like asking if you have a favorite kid!”

Ifs Kids Film Asking

Author:Sylvia Sidney

“If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.”

Ifs Kids Practice Exercise Asking Parenting Practice What You Preach

Author:Bruce Jenner

“I go by intuition. Work-wise, that means asking myself if a role will push me outside my comfort zone, challenge me to learn something new.”

Ifs Mean Challenges Roles Wise Comfort Asking Intuition Zone Something New Comfort Zone

Author:Isabel Lucas

“You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.”

Want Girl Fame Asking Trade

Author:Nikki Cox

“Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.”

Helping Healing Steps Asking Courageous Take Time Asking For Help

Author:Mariska Hargitay

“Fans always write asking why I didn't smile more in films. I smiled in `Annie Laurie`, but I can't recall that it helped much.”

Writing I Can Film Fans Asking Recalls I Smile Annie Asking Why Smile More

Author:Lillian Gish

“I was just asking Chad [Myers], how can you get a volcano in Iceland? Isn't it too- when you think of a volcano, you think of Hawaii and long words like that. You don't think of Iceland.You think it's too cold to have a volcano there.”

Thinking Long Cold Asking Hawaii Volcanoes Iceland Chad Long Words

Author:Rick Sanchez

“I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.”

People Waiting Rain Asking Disappear Inspirational Rain

Author:David Copperfield

“I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.”

Ifs Knows Writing Able Film Ready Asking Permission

Author:Francis Ford Coppola

“Prayer meetings are dead affairs when they are merely asking sessions; there is adventure, hope and life when they are believing sessions, and the faith is corporately, practically and deliberately affirmed.”

Believe Prayer Adventure Asking Meetings Affair Session Prayer Meeting

Author:Norman Grubb

“Some people are asking me questions like this is a more shocking subject, which is so strange.”

People Subjects Strange Asking Shocking

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“I suspect that had my dad not been president, he'd be asking the same questions: How'd your meeting go with so-and-so? . How did you feel when you stood up in front of the people for the State of the Union Address-state of the budget address, whatever you call it.”

People Feels States Humor Political President Fronts Dad Asking Unions Meetings My Dad Budgets Addresses Suspects Stood Up

Author:George W. Bush

“Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.”

People Mean Stills Rocks Concepts Asking Like Me Rock And Roll

Author:Billy Corgan

“I have never been disappointed upon asking microorganisms for whatever I wanted.”

Wanted Asking Disappointed Biochemistry Microorganisms

Author:Kinichiro Sakaguchi

“Hugh returned from his trip, and days later I still sounded like a Red Chinese asking questions about the democratic hinterlands. "And you actually saw people smoking in restaurants? Really! And offices, too? Oh, tell me again about the ashtrays in the hospital waiting room, and don't leave anything out."”

People Stills Waiting Rooms Saws Office Red Asking Democratic Chinese Restaurants Smoking Hospitals Asking Questions Waiting Rooms Ashtrays

Author:David Sedaris

“It's not about supplication, it's about power. It's not about asking, it's about demanding. It's not about convincing those who are currently in power, it's about changing the very face of power itself.”

Faces Inspiring Asking Convincing Supplication

Author:Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

“Pain is a message asking for our help.”

Helping Pain Suffering Messages Asking

Book:Kabbalah for Inner Peace: Imagery and Insights to Guide You Through Your Day

Source: Kabbalah for Inner Peace: Imagery and Insights to Guide You Through Your Day

“Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.”

Asking Tired Archives

Author:Annie Leibovitz

“I'm not Buddhist, I'm not Hindu, I'm not Christian, but I still feel like I have a deep connection with God. I pray all the time — for self-control, for humility. There's a lot of gratitude in it. Just saying 'thank you' sometimes is better than asking for things.”

Feels Stills Self Sometimes Christian Humility Praying Gratitude Connections Asking Buddhist Self Control I Pray Just Saying Saying Thank You Deep Connections

Author:Katy Perry

“Look, I'm not asking you to like me, I'm not asking you to put yourself in a position where I can touch your goodies, I'm just asking you to be fair.”

Looks I Can Position Fairs Asking Like Me

Author:Homer

“Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, and whatever days fortune will give, count them as profit.”

Giving Tomorrow Asking Fortune Profit

Author:Horace

“Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.”

Writing Asks Progress Disease Asking Cancer

Author:Amy Lowell

“Never think you need to apologize for asking someone to give to a worthy cause, any more than as though you were giving him or her an opportunity to participate in a high-grade investment. The duty of giving is as much his or hers as is the duty of asking yours.”

Thinking Needs Giving Opportunity Causes Duty Asking Investment Worthy Grades Philanthropy Apologizing Worthy Causes

Author:John D. Rockefeller

“The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I know that I exist? The keen old prof replied, And who is asking?”

Knows Courses Students Late Asking Philosopher Professors Metaphysics Morris

Book:Humboldt's Gift

Source: Humboldt's Gift

“You're asking me how not to doubt. Good question.My answer is, you can't. This is life”

Answers Doubt Asking Good Questions

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment.”

Persons Asks Essentials Ordinary Asking Police Officers Amendments Fourth Investigation Police Officer Identification Asking Questions Fourth Amendment

Author:Anthony Kennedy

“The important thing to note is that it is not important whether Malala was shot or not - Malala is not asking for personal favors or support. She is asking for support with girls' education and women's rights. So don't support Malala, support her campaign for girls' education and women's rights.”

Important Girl Support Rights Shots Asking Important Things Notes Favors Campaigns Womens Rights Malala

Author:Malala Yousafzai

“Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one.”

Firsts Book Might Answers Interesting Asking Lenses

Author:Len Deighton

“I have made revenue collection a frontline institution because it is the one which can emancipate us from begging. If we can get about 22% of GDP we should not need to disturb anybody asking for aid; instead of coming here to bother you, give me this, give me this, I shall come here to greet you, to trade with you.”

Ifs Needs Giving Should Made Give Me Asking Institutions Trade Aids Bother Collections Revenue Begging Gdp Frontline

Author:Yoweri Museveni

“I think people have been obsessed with the wrong question, which is how do we make people pay for music? What if we started asking, how do we let people pay for music?”

People Ifs Thinking Has Beens Inspiration Motivation Pay Asking Obsessed What If

Author:Amanda Palmer

“But what if Shakespeare― and Hamlet― were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?”

Ifs Life Real Asking What If Real Questions

Author:Gayle Forman

“And I'm asking for your support because I want to defend America, as I've said before, from becoming a socialist nation”

Want Said America Nations Support Becoming Asking Socialist

Author:Christine O'Donnell

“Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you're connecting with them on a personal level.”

Way Mean Character Motivation Levels Mistake Special Effects Reader Involved Asking Connecting Concentrating Special Effects

Author:Alan Dean Foster

“I can think of numberless males, from Bonnard to Callahan, who have photographed their lovers and spouses, but I am having trouble finding parallel examples among my sister photographers. The act of looking appraisingly at a man, making eye contact on the street, asking to photograph him, studying his body, has always been a brazen venture for a woman, though, for a man, these acts are commonplace, even expected.”

Thinking Men I Can Body Eye Study Trouble Streets Example Lovers Findings Asking Males Photographer Photograph Expected Contact My Sister Venture Spouse Parallels Commonplace Brazen Eye Contact

Author:Sally Mann

“I wanted to change the rules of engagement, asking for more- from fewer. I was insisting that we had to have only the best people...If you wanted excellence, at a minimum, the ambience had to reflect excellence.”

People Ifs Wanted Asking Excellence Engagement Fewer Minimum Insisting Ambience Rules Of Engagement

Author:Jack Welch

“People are always asking me when I'm going to retire. Why should I? I've got it two ways - I'm still making movies, and I'm a senior citizen, so I can see myself at half price.”

People Way Should Stills I Can Two Half Citizens Asking Aging Retiring Should I Senior Two Ways Senior Citizen

Author:George Burns

“I wake up in the morning asking myself what can I do today, how can I help the world today. I believe in what I do beyond a shadow of a doubt. I gave my word to this tree and to all the people that my feet would not touch the ground until I had done everything in my power to make the world aware of this problem and to stop the destruction.”

“It is of the nobility of man's soul that he is insatiable: for he hath a benefactor so prone to give, that he delighteth in us for asking. Do not your inclinations tell you that the WORLD is yours? Do you not covet all? Do you not long to have it; to enjoy it; to overcome it? To what end do men gather riches, but to multiply more? Do they not like Pyrrhus the King of Epire, add house to house and lands to lands, that they may get it all?”

Men World Giving May Long Soul Ends House Enjoy Land Wall Kings Overcoming Asking Add Riches Inclination Nobility Insatiable Benefactors World Is Yours

Book:Centuries of Meditations

Source: Centuries of Meditations

“"Stop asking "What should I do now?" That question only brings up what others expect of you. Free people don't have shoulds. They have choices."”

People Should Choices Asking Thought Provoking Should I Provoking

Author:Steve Pavlina

“People often ask me how I keep my priorities straight in life and I tell them that it is done by constantly straightening them out!”

People Life Done Christian Asks Asking Christian Inspirational Priorities Ask Me Ministers Preacher

Author:Joyce Meyer

“My guess is that most Australians today would vote for Babe. A piglet who dreams of being a statesmanlike sheepdog. Who merely by asking politely, can lead the electorate two by two through the gate where the grass is always greener.”

Two Dream Today Women Vote Asking Grass Gates Babe Electorate Greener Piglet Grass Is Always Greener Sheepdogs

Author:Wendy Harmer

“We are all wounded. But wounds are necessary for his healing light to enter into our beings. Without wounds and failure and frustrations and defeats, there will be no opening for his brilliance to tickle in and invade our lives. Failures in life are courses with very high tuition fees, so I don't cut classes and miss my lessons: on humility, on patience, on hope, on asking others for help, on listening to God, on trying again and again and again.”

“A lot of foreign people say, when asking about eating habits, 'What is your guilty pleasure?' I have no guilt. Whatever I do, I enjoy and it's the point. I think if you start to feel guilty about it, that's a problem. So, no guilty pleasures. I have pleasure and no guilt at all.”

People Ifs Thinking Feels Problem Enjoy Pleasure Habit Eating Asking Guilt Guilty Eating Habits Guilty Pleasure

Author:Eric Ripert

“I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on cholesterol lowering drugs for the rest of their lives.”

“Liberals don't care. Their approach is to rip out society's foundations without asking if they serve any purpose. Why do we have immigration laws? What's with these borders? Why do we have the institution of marriage, anyway? What do we need standardized tests for? Hey, I like Keith Richards - why not make heroin legal? Let's take a sledgehammer to all these load-bearing walls and just see what happens!”

Ifs Needs Happens Care Law Political Purpose Wall Approach Tests Asking Institutions Foundation Don't Care Immigration Hey Borders Why Not Load Rip Heroin Keith Immigration Laws

Author:Ann Coulter

“In order to really understand, we need to listen, not reply. We need to listen long and attentively. In order to help anybody to open his heart we have to give him time, asking only a few questions, as carefully as possible in order to help him better explain his experience.”

Needs Giving Heart Long Helping Order Listening Asking

Book:To Understand Each Other

Source: To Understand Each Other

“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas”

Want Children Littles Ideas Kids Grows Growing Up Adults Asking Little Kid Original Ideas Ideas And Innovation Power Of Ideas

Author:Paula Poundstone

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