“I figure there are enough self-opinionated assholes trying to get their ugly little faces in front of you as it is. You ask a lot of kids today what they want to be when they grow up, and they say, 'I want to be famous.' You ask them, 'For what reason?' and they don't know or care. I think Andy Warhol got it wrong - in the future, so many people are going to become famous that one day everybody will end up being anonymous for 15 minutes.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantTryingLittlesEndsSelfReasonEnoughCareKidsTodayFacesAsksGrowsGrowing UpMinutesFrontsFiguresOne DayUglyOpinionatedWarhol Author:Banksy
“The process of just being in front of people, having to stand up for your ideas, and ask - and then ask people for money, which is a very hard thing to do.” PeopleIdeasHardAsksProcessFrontsThings To DoJust BeingHard Things Author:David Plotz
“How hard would it be to ask children what they see in their heads? How big should the house be in comparison to the family standing in front of it? What is it about the anatomy of the people that doesn't look right? Then let them try it again. Teach them to learn how to see and ask questions.” PeopleShouldTryingLooksChildrenHardBigsAsksHouseTeachFrontsStandingComparisonAnatomy Book:Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks Source: Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks
“A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left?” IfsShouldWarAsksLeftEnemyFrontsChiefsWhat If Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“The media uses polls to create news stories. I think polls are just an extension of the editorial page, an excuse to get them on the front page. You can ask any question you want, get any answer you want, and then run around with that as a news story.” ThinkingWantStoriesUseRunningAsksAnswersMediaFrontsNewsPagesExcuseExtensionsPollsEditorialsNews Stories Author:Rush Limbaugh
“With writing ... you must keep in the habit. After a lapse it will take you not an hour, but a week, a month, maybe, to find your mood again - that mood in which things drop from heaven. There's no forcing it; you can't set your notions in front of you, and stare at them till they take shape; they have to come to you whether you ask them or not. ... And you have to be in the habit of that mood! Of inspiration!” WritingInspirationAsksHeavenHoursWeekFrontsMonthsHabitShapesNotionMoodStaringLapses Author:Anne Bosworth Greene
“I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.” PeopleUsedAsksFrontsDollarsMcdonaldsCheeseburger Author:T-Pain
“Every time you get into a new job, new location, you have an amazing opportunity in front of you. You get to play dumb for as long as people will allow you to play dumb. You get to ask all the dumb questions, you get to ask multiple people the dumb questions, and you get to make mistakes. Thats how you stand out in the crowd.” PeopleLongPlayJobsAsksOpportunityMistakeFrontsCrowdsDumbMaking MistakesMultipleLocationStanding OutNew JobAmazing OpportunitiesDumb Questions Author:Gary Cohn
“The tree the tempest with a crash of wood Throws down in front of us is not to bar Our passage to our journey's end for good, But just to ask us who we think we are.” ThinkingEndsAsksTreeJourneyFrontsObstaclesWoodsBarsPassagesCrashTempest Book:Selected poems Source: Selected poems
“The Republicans tend to choose the candidate who came in second place in the last election, and Democrats tend to move on. Ask President Ed Muskie how it worked out to be the front-runner. Ask President Howard Dean how it worked out.” LastsMovingAsksPoliticsPresidentLeadershipComedyFrontsRepublicanElectionStrategyDemocratIdeologyCandidatesRunnersDeanPartisanshipSecond Place Author:Brian Schweitzer
“I ask my assistants if they're retarded all the time. When the camera is on you, of course, actors have the ability to make it real. For me, if I'm not talking, it is a problem. I have so much more respect for actors after being in front of the camera, and I realize that the hardest part is when you're not talking. Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.” IfsRealProblemCoursesActorsAsksRealizingAbilityActingTalkingFrontsListeningHarderCamerasHardestAssistantsNot TalkingRetarded Author:Brett Ratner