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“People often ask why I left CNN.....I didn’t like management. I liked my colleagues in the news gathering but the corporate culture that seized management when AOL came in (Steve Case and Gerry Levin) was disgusting.”

People Culture Asks Left Cases News Management Corporate Disgusting Colleagues Gathering Cnn Corporate Culture

Author:Greta Van Susteren

“People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.”

People Ifs States Whole Wanted Courses Asks Left Music Series Complexes Statements Ask Me Ambiguity American Pie

Author:Don McLean

“Please, accept the most sincere words of sympathy over the natural disaster that affected the United States . I know that hurricane Katrina that hit the US south-western coast led to casualties, left homeless dozens of thousands of US citizens and inflicted a strong damage to the economy of this region. I ask you to convey my condolences to the next of kin of those killed,.”

“If you ask me why I left China, it's just that I went for a stroll and strolled too far away.”

Ifs Asks Left China Ask Me Far Away

Author:Mu Xin

“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?”

Ifs Should War Asks Left Enemy Fronts Chiefs What If

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Alas, all too often, the dream turns into a mud puddle. I am left looking at a disaster. What to do! Keep working. I ask the Almighty for help. That frees me.”

Helping Dream Turns Asks Left Failure Disaster Almighty Mud Alas Puddles Mud Puddles

Author:Jules Olitski

“People ask me, "Are you right wing or are you left wing?" and I always say, "I'm for the whole bird." A one-winged bird didn't ever get off the ground.”

People Whole Asks Left Bird Wings Ask Me Right Wing Left Wing

Author:Rick Warren

“Even as a child back in Indiana, whenever I took a Butterbelly off the hook I used to ask myself, "Does this fish think?" I would even ask others, "Do you suppose this Butterbelly can think?" And all I would get in reply was a look. At the age of eighteen, I left the state.”

Thinking Looks Children Doe States Age Used Asks Left Fishes Hook Eighteen Indiana

Author:Will Cuppy

“Discretion, like the hole in a doughnut, does not exist except as an area left open by a surrounding belt of restriction. It is therefore a relative concept. It always makes sense to ask, "Discretion under which standards?" or "Discretion as to which authority?”

Doe Asks Left Authority Standards Concepts Areas Holes Make Sense Relative Belts Restriction Discretion Doughnut

Book:Taking Rights Seriously

Source: Taking Rights Seriously

“To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you ask what's left, they say: 'Well, the typing is very good.'”

Needs Feels Wells Character Asks Left Offers Very Good Scripts Dialogue Tone Plot This Day Typing

Author:John Sayles

“He's showed him the left leg, then the right. Where's the ball, the defender asks? It's up his sleeve.”

Asks Left Football Balls Legs Sleeves Commentators Defenders

Author:Clive Tyldesley

“I am just stupefied here. The left has officially stamped it now: Oil is a villain. Now, please ask yourselves: When did this start?”

Asks Left Please Oil Liberalism Villain

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“(The Weakest Link) is fascinating program. They ask a bunch of people questions and they keep getting rid of the dumbest person, so just the smartest person is left. It is kind of the opposite way we elect a president.”

People Way Kind Persons Asks Left President Program Opposites Bunch Fascinating Links Weakest Link

Author:Jay Leno

“Did you hear the one about the woman who is attacked on the street by a gorilla, beaten senseless, raped repeatedly, and left to die? When she finally regains consciousness and tries to speak, her doctor leans over to hear her sigh contently and to feebly ask, 'Where is that marvelous ape?'”

Trying Dies Asks Left Speak Consciousness Streets Doctors Marvelous Beaten Sigh Apes Gorillas

Author:John McCain

“They [Nicaragua] haven't had elections because they are in a state of seige by the United States. They would have had elections if the U.S. had left them alone. But the U.S. has mounted a full scale war against them. So how can you ask them to behave normally?”

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Author:Allen Ginsberg

“I am secretly afraid of animals.... I think it is because of the usness in their eyes, with the underlying not-usness which beliesit, and is so tragic a reminder of the lost age when we human beings branched off and left them: left them to eternal inarticulateness and slavery. Why? their eyes seem to ask us.”

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Author:Edith Wharton

“Things on the whole are faster in America; people don't stand for election, they run for office. If a person says he's sick, it doesn't mean regurgitating, it means ill. Mad means angry, not insane. Don't ask for the left-luggage; it's called a checkroom.”

People Ifs Mean Persons Whole Running America Asks Left Office Sick Election Angry Mad Ill Insane Faster Luggage

Book:Hons and Rebels: Hons & Rebels

Source: Hons and Rebels: Hons & Rebels

“When you need an answer, look over your left shoulder and ask your death.”

Needs Looks Asks Left Answers Shoulders Over You

Author:Carlos Castaneda