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“I see a lot of that on Tumblr - people asking advice from people they don't know. That's so odd to me. Asking an anonymous person for advice seems very odd.”

People Knows Persons Seems Advice Asking Odd

Author:Chris Black

“Wikipedia is first and foremost an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language. Asking whether the community comes before or after this goal is really asking the wrong question: the entire purpose of the community is precisely this goal.”

Firsts Persons Purpose Language Goal Community Effort Quality Planets Highest Asking Single Person Wikipedia Encyclopedia

Author:Jimmy Wales

“Occasional observers of horror movies have a nasty habit of asking why it is that there is always some poor misguided soul who opens the door to the cellar or to the attic or to the crypt when it's quite clear that no sane person would even consider it.”

Persons Soul Film Poor Clear Doors Habit Horror Hollywood Asking Sane Nasty Observers Occasional Misguided Cellars Attics Asking Why

Author:Andrew Tudor

“You're just trying to be yourself, and for me, playing soccer is being myself. One day, you're one person on a team. The next thing people are asking your opinion about things you're not an expert on. Because they recognize you, they think you must know something about something - which isn't necessarily the case.”

People Thinking Knows Trying Persons Next Opinion Cases Team One Day Asking Soccer Experts Being Yourself Being Myself Playing Soccer

Author:Brandi Chastain

“Most people think leadership is about being in charge. Most people think leadership is about having all the answers and being the most intelligent person or the most qualified person in the room. The irony is that it is the complete opposite. Leadership is about empowering others to achieve things they did not think possible. 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.”

“A person who tells a secret, swearing the recipient to secrecy in turn, is asking of the other person a discretion which he is abrogating himself.”

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Book:Thrones, Dominations

Source: Thrones, Dominations

“Red carpets are pretty unpredictable. You can go from one person asking you what you're wearing to the next person asking you about the situation in Haiti. It's the extreme juxtaposition, and some of the questions can throw me!”

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Author:Keith Urban

“I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied - about so many things, about injustice, about the way the world works - and in some ways, my dissatisfaction drives my storytelling.”

World Way Believe Persons Asking Injustice Sake Storytelling Conform Dissatisfaction Asking Questions Dissatisfied

Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Who we are? Us!Right? What kind of people are we? What kind of person are you? Isn't that the most important thing of all? Isn't that the kind of question we shloud be asking ourselves all the time? 'What kind of person am I?”

People Kind Persons Important Asking Important Things Who We Are

Book:The Wonder eOmni Collection: Wonder, Auggie & Me, 365 Days of Wonder

Source: The Wonder eOmni Collection: Wonder, Auggie & Me, 365 Days of Wonder

“It used to be said that, socially speaking, Philadelphia asked who a person is, New York how much is he worth, and Boston what does he know. Nationally it has now become generally recognized that Boston Society has long cared even more than Philadelphia about the first point and has refined the asking of who a person is to the point of demanding to know who he was. Philadelphia asks about a man's parents; Boston wants to know about his grandparents.”

Knows Men Want Firsts Persons Long Doe Said Used Asks Parent New York Asking Used To Be Grandparent Boston Refined Philadelphia

Author:Cleveland Amory

“Let each person in relationship worry about Self-what Self is being, doing, and having; what Self is wanting, asking, giving; what Self is seeking, creating, experiencing, and all relationships would magnificently serve their purpose-and their participants!”

Inspirational Giving Persons Self Purpose Religious Worry Creating Asking Seeking Participants

Book:Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

“When you see magazine articles and you go, 'Oh my God, that one looks so old or look how fat someone is' it has very little to do with the person in question and more to do with the person who's asking the question. People don't want to believe their own mortality.”

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Author:RuPaul

“I'm always trying to ask myself both "Who am I as an individual?" and "What are the cultural forces that have made me the person that I am?" How can I understand myself as a cultural creature as well as an individual? I'm really obsessed with that question, and always asking my students to consider it.”

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Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man.”

Thinking Men Persons States Action Law Political Order Perfect Fit Asking Originals Bounds Possession Laws Of Nature Political Power

Book:Two treatises of government

Source: Two treatises of government

“You're not a Black man. You're a human being in God's eyes. So when you sit down to talk to someone and you talk to them in really intelligent terms, you ask difficult questions, there's a militancy that's assigned to you without you asking for it, because you are simply judged by what you look like. If you're a white person asking the same questions, you'd be one of these CNN guys and say how brilliant he is. That doesn't work for you, because this is the world we live in.”

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Author:James McBride

“If you want to understand a difficult or trying person, begin by asking the question: 'What is the wound they are trying to heal?'”

Ifs Want Trying Persons Difficult Asking Wounds Heal

Author:Mardy Grothe

“I keep joking that I'm in Jason Reitman Film School, because I keep asking him questions every single day about directing and I have a list of things that he's told me to do and not do and I definitely couldn't learn from a better person.”

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Author:Diablo Cody

“There is no such thing as a dumb question but there is such a thing as a dumb person asking a question.”

Persons Asking Dumb Dumb Questions

Author:Behdad Sami

“[Revealing character] can't be done by pushing the person into position or arranging his head at a certain angle. It must be accomplished by provoking the victim, amusing him with jokes, lulling him with silence, or asking impertinent questions which his best friend would be afraid to voice.”

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Author:Philippe Halsman

“People say, 'Well don't you regret not having kids?' And I go, 'No, not really.' And then if they keep asking, I always say this, 'Well, you know, maybe I'll adopt.' But I don't mean that. It's just something I say to make me sound like a nicer person.”

People Ifs Knows Wells Mean Persons Kids Sound Regret Asking Having Kids

Author:Wanda Sykes

“And in some ways, to me, that's one of the inspiring and powerful things about the Great Migration itself. There was no leader, there was no one person who set the date who said, 'On this date, people will leave the South.' They left on their own accord for as many reasons as there are people who left. They made a choice that they were not going to live under the system into which they were born anymore and in some ways, it was the first step that the nation's servant class ever took without asking.”

People Way Firsts Persons Made Said Reason Choices Left Nations Born Powerful Leader Steps Class Asking South Servant First Steps Accord Migration

Author:Isabel Wilkerson

“Two questions help us see why we are unlikely to get what we want by using punishment... The first question is: What do I want this person to do that's different from what he or she is currently doing? If we ask only this first question, punishment may seem effective because the threat or exercise of punitive force may well influence the person's behavior. However, with the second question, it becomes evident that punishment isn't likely to work: What do I want this person's reasons to be for doing what I'm asking?”

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Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“If one person comes in and says, this is the way life should be, I think you're asking for chaos. I think you gotta let different people live different ways. It's a big world.”

People Ifs Thinking World Way Should Persons Different Bigs Asking Chaos Different Ways Different Peoples

Author:Ice T

“Intimacy is important in my work because I don't understand existence without intimacy. All of us are dependent on other people - and in ways we don't know. You cross the street and assume that person isn't crazy, they don't want to mow me down with their car. I don't know that person but I am already in a relationship with them. I am asking them to abide by the traffic laws. If they decided not to, I'd be dead. Even in those anonymous ways, we're in relationships.”

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Author:Claudia Rankine

“You [can] become part of someone else's narrative. Every once in a while I would get people asking me questions like, "If your husband is a Muslim, then why haven't you converted to Islam?" Interestingly enough, almost every person who asked me that was a Sunni, and it was their not-so-subtle way of implying that my Shiite husband was a bad Muslim for letting his infidel wife run around unconverted.”

People Ifs Way Persons Enough Running Wife Havens Husband Asking Islam Narrative Subtle Your Husband Infidel Implying

Author:Annia Ciezadlo

“Sometimes I'll say, "I wrote that book," and the person will look at you as if you're really strange. One time that happened to my daughter on a plane. She was sitting next to a girl who was reading one of my books and my daughter said, "My mother wrote that book." And the girl started to quiz my daughter, asking her all sorts of questions, like what are the names of Judy's children and where did she grow up. My daughter thought it was so funny.”

Ifs Looks Children Persons Said Book Sometimes Mother Girl Reading Next Names Grows Growing Up Happened Strange Daughter Sitting Asking Planes My Daughter One Time Quiz

Author:Judy Blume

“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

“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.”

“Because of my experience in Occupy, instead of asking the question, "Who will benefit from this system I'm implementing with the data?" I started to ask the question, "What will happen to the most vulnerable?" Or "Who is going to lose under this system? How will this affect the worst-off person?" Which is a very different question from "How does this improve certain people's lives?"”

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Author:Cathy O'Neil

“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.”

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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

“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.”

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Author:Jack Kevorkian

“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

“Intelligent people know they are intelligent. They also know that one person cannot know all, hence a person is not stupid simply because he is ignorant of one thing or another. They know that, to another intelligent person, they will not appear stupid in asking for an explanation of what they do not know, and so their ignorance on any particular issue does not become an embarrassment.”

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Author:Lynsay Sands

“The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself: Are my trousers long enough?' Is my veil in place?' Can my make-up be seen?' Are they going to whip me?' No longer asks herself: Where is my freedom of thought?' Where is my freedom of speech?' My life, is it livable?' What's going on in the political prisons?”

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Author:Marjane Satrapi

“Let the jerks of the world serve as the perfect example of what you don't want to be. You'll be a heck of a lot happier, and in the long run, there's a chance that other person at work will end up asking what your secret is. Why are you the happy one? In other words, don't let your thoughts think you. Besides, if you're really gonna get pissed, don't waste it on your family, friends, or coworkers, save it for something that really matters.”

Ifs Thinking World Want Persons Long Ends Matter Running Chance Perfect Secret Example Waste Asking Be You Long Runs Jerk Family Friends Coworker

Author:Willie Nelson

“I have written letters that are failures, but I have written few, I think, that are lies. Trying to reach a person means asking the same question over and over again: Is this the truth, or not? I begin this letter to you, then, in the western tradition. If I understand it, the western tradition is: Put your cards on the table.”

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Book:The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

Source: The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

“There’s only one question that matters, Ms. Lane, and it’s the one you never get around to asking. People are capable of varying degrees of truth. The majority spend their entire lives fabricating an elaborate skein of lies, immersing themselves in the faith of bad faith, doing whatever it takes to feel safe. The person who truly lives has precious few moments of safety, learns to thrive in any kind of storm. It’s the truth you can stare down stone-cold that makes you what you are. Weak or strong. Live or die. Prove yourself. How much truth can you take, Ms. Lane?”

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“All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving. They do that by asking WHY. After all, the person who knows HOW will always have a job, but the person who knows WHY will always be the boss.”

People Knows Way Persons Jobs Know How Growing Asking Boss Improving Competent Keep Learning Asking Why

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“The identity of the Filipino today is of a person asking what is his identity.”

Persons Today Identity Asking Identification Filipino

Author:Nick Joaquín

“No, my dog used to gaze at me, paying me the attention I need, the attention required to make a vain person like me understand that, being a dog, he was wasting time, but, with those eyes so much purer than mine, he’d keep on gazing at me with a look that reserved for me alone all his sweet and shaggy life, always near me, never troubling me, and asking nothing.”

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Author:Pablo Neruda

“He did it (listened) as the world's most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right question at the right time, never fidgeting or taking his eyes from the speaker's face, making the other guy feel like the most knowledgeable, brilliant, and intellectually savvy person on the planet.”

Source: 11/22/63: A Novel

“...life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it; that the thinking person has a philosophical duty to examine both the nature of life and the conditions it comes with; and that if this person decides to renounce the gift no one asks for, it is the moral and human duty to act on the consequences of that decision.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Persons Life Is Asks Decision Moral Conditions Duty Consequence Philosophical Asking Renounce Life Is A Gift Thinking Person

Book:The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

“But an apology too — you think you’re giving something, but you’re not. You’re really asking for something. You’re asking for forgiveness, you’re asking for the other injured person to make it okay for you. Apologies were harder work for the person getting one than the person giving one.”

Thinking Giving Persons Okay Harder Asking Apology Injured Asking For Forgiveness

Book:The Story of Us

Source: The Story of Us

“When you encounter another person, when you have dealings with anyone at all, it is as if a question is being put to you. So you must think, What is the Lord asking of me in this moment, in this situation?”

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Book:Gilead

Source: Gilead

“The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.”

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Author:Thomas Carlyle

““Everybody gives you belief for the asking,” she said to David, “and so few people give you anything more to believe in than your own belief—just not letting you down, that's all. It's so hard to find a person who accepts responsibilities beyond what you ask.' 'So easy to be loved - so hard to love.' David answered.”

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Author:Zelda Fitzgerald

“The act of leaning in to kiss someone, or asking them, is fraught with the possibility of rejection, so the person least likely to get rejected should do the leaning in or the asking.”

Should Persons Possibility Kissing Asking Rejection Rejected Leaning In

Book:An Abundance of Katherines

Source: An Abundance of Katherines

“She really was pretty, for a grown-up person, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative. I wonder what I would have done if she had smiled at me like that now: whether I would have handed my mind or my heart or my identify to her for the asking, as my father did.”

Ifs Mind Heart Persons Done Father Wonder My Heart Asking Seven Abstraction Imperatives

Author:Neil Gaiman

“The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.”

Thinking Persons Real Goal Education Asking Asking Questions Real Education

Author:Max Beerbohm

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