Asking Quotes
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Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day.
C. S. Lewis
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Any story that gets us thinking, and particularly young people, thinking why? Whether it's as a result of reading the book, or coming out of the theatre or the cinema, I think we should just simply be asking the question 'why'? Why did it happen to those people? Was it necessary? And anything that gets us thinking like that is really important.
Michael Morpurgo
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Keep asking yourself, 'What kind of a company would my company be if everyone in it was just like me?'
Brian Tracy
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All that's different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five.
Albert Einstein
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People are always asking me when? when? I say to them 'You tell me.
Brian Lara
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I think the problem with polemics is that it's general and it's lazy. When you say, "This is bad," that's a general thing. We're more interested in asking the question.
Tony Goldwyn
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In the end, maybe that was what separated the real paranormal investigators from the charlatans. The charlatans kept up the aura of mystery and obfuscation. The real investigators kept asking why and how.
Carrie Vaughn
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It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.
Paul Auster
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No one worries about genre when they're dancing. They're not asking themselves, 'Is this song a dubstep song?'
Sonny John Moore
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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.
Chris Black
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My salary situation at 'Morning Joe' wasn't right. I made five attempts to fix it, then realized I'd made the same mistake every time: I apologised for asking.
Mika Brzezinski
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The people who keep asking if they can't lead a decent life without Christ, don't know what life is about; if they did they would know that 'a decent life' is mere machinery compared with the thing we men are really made for.
C. S. Lewis
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What's the ultimate price I'll pay if I don't stop this indulgence now? By asking questions like this, they'll associate pain to overeating, and their behavior will change immediately.
Anthony Robbins
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Telling is not selling. Only asking questions is selling.
Brian Tracy
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Prayer brings to us blessings which we need, and which only God can give, and which prayer can alone convey to us ... This service of prayer is not a mere rite, a ceremony through which we go, a sort of performance. Prayer is going to God for something needed and desired. Prayer is simply asking God to do for us what he has promised us he will do if we ask him ... Asking is man's part. Giving is God's part. The praying belongs to us. The answer belongs to God.
Gerhard Tersteegen
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What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.
Barack Obama
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I love going out and it is a bit sad when the photographers stop asking you for your picture.
Alice Evans
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We are forever asking Nature whether it has stopped beating its wife.
Abraham Kaplan
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After all, there's only one aswer to be made to the young fellow who is asking constantly for advice as to how to hit. The answer is: "Pick out a good one and sock it!
Babe Ruth
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Teenagers are a great audience and they are fearless about asking what they want to know.
Sarah Dessen
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People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable.
Rita Dove
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People keep asking me whether I'm going to vote for Obama or McCain in the election. But I'm like, why bother? There will never be another leader as good as he was.
Zach Braff
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I wake up in the morning asking myself what can I do today, how can I help the world today.
Julia Butterfly Hill
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It would be asking too much to want to sell only to connoisseurs - that way starvation lies.
Claude Monet