"People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it."
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"Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering."
"You ask me for a motto. Here it is: SERVICE."
"You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it."
"To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me."
"No, it is better not. She will only ask me to take a message to Albert."
"People always ask me if they're mine. Yes, they are... all bought and paid for."
"Ask me who I don't dress!"
"Now, if you ask me, what’s going on is that we’re all up to here in it, and probably the most important thing is that we not yell at one another."
"Can I say something? Um, I'm the type of person that if you ask me a question and I don't know the answer, I'm gonna tell you that I don't know. But I bet you what, I know how to find the answer and I will find the answer."
"Aren’t you going to ask me if I’m all right?” I say. “No, I’m pretty sure you’re not all right.” He shakes his head. “I’m going to ask you not to make any decisions until we’ve talked about it."
"Absolutely. I am a father, and I know best. If there's any question, just ask me."
"People ask me why I write. I write to find out what I know."
"What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do."
"When someone asks me now, "What do you do?" I will be able to say, "I am a writer.""
"It's a great relief for me that no one will ask me anymore: "Orhan, when will you get the Nobel Prize?""
"Should you ask me if I'm happy, I'll answer that I'm not."
"I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes."
"Don't ask me for promises until I know what I am promising."
"Condemn me if you choose - I do that myself, - but condemn me, and not the path which I am following, and which I point out to those who ask me where, in my opinion, the path is."