"Love cannot be had for the asking; it comes only as a gift from the heart of another"
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"If you're asking whether I intentionally mess up my hair, no, I don't. And certain things, like my freckles, they're just there. I don't do anything consciously. I suppose I could get contact lenses. I suppose I could comb my hair more often."
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"The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?"
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"Stop asking, start doing."
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"He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet."
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"Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions."
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"Sometimes I feel like when someone asks me if I believe in God, it's like a blind person asking if I'm black, so that they can put me in the right category."
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"The question to ask is what will satisfy you? What will bring you peace? And perhaps the answer to those is in asking yourself when you were last happy."
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"I have tried raising money by asking for it, and by not asking for it. I always got more by asking for it."
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"There is no situation that could ever confront you that cannot be solved. Life takes on real meaning when you set values for yourself, regard yourself as worthwhile and elevate your thoughts to things that are of God-good. There is a Higher Power. Turn to it and use it; it is yours for the asking."
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"For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on."
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"I'm not asking any of you to make drastic changes to every single one of your recipes or to totally change the way you do business. But what I am asking is that you consider reformulating your menu in pragmatic and incremental ways to create healthier versions of the foods that we all love."
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"Lack of clarity is the number-one time-waster. Always be asking, 'What am I trying to do? How am I trying to do it."
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"The human race is a very, very magical race. We have a magic power of witches and wizards. We're here on this earth to unravel the mystery of this planet. The planet is asking for it."
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"You can judge the validity of any idea or concept by asking Is this true for me?"
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"One of the best skills of an entrepreneur is the ability to question. By asking new questions, new answers are found."
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"The same people that tell me what I ought to have is the same people asking for an autograph."
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"I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work. People don't rise from nothing....It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't."
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"We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life."
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"She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself in anguish which one of them was deader: the man who had died or the woman he had left behind."
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