"There is nothing so small but that we may honor God by asking His guidance of it, or insult Him by taking it into our own hands."
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"There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much."
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"But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else."
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"In such a regime, I say, you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murderer in the chest-without asking to be paid."
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"It would be asking too much to want to sell only to connoisseurs - that way starvation lies."
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"All of the younger actors keep coming up to me and asking me where all of the land mines are because they know I've stepped on them all."
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"If you meet somebody who's spent any length of time in prison, you don't let your guard down. Ever. And really, that's what that was about-if you open up too much, you're asking to get your teeth kicked in."
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"I began to realize that thinking itself is nothing but the process of asking and answering questions."
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"By asking the question How can I afford it? your brain is put to work."
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"The Chinese in this country aren't asking for integration."
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"If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that."
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"As far as you can, get into the habit of asking yourself in relation to any action taken by another: "What is his point of reference here?" But begin with yourself: examine yourself first."
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"Everybody's always asking me about my blood pressure. They did an interview once where they hooked me up to a blood pressure machine and they'd rile me. I'd yell and scream, and then it would just go back to normal in a few minutes. Everything else is probably rotting, but the blood pressure is spectacular."
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"Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something - love - from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company."
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"I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and fourth time. I admire her great courage in leaving so much unsaid and asking the reader to really engage her brain."
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"Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it's a title. Don't go around asking executive producers what they do because they don't do anything, alright?"
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"I’m asking you to believe. Not just in my ability to bring about real change in Washington...I’m asking you to believe in yours."
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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."
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"...it is sensible to begin by asking the beginning questions, why imagine power in the first place, and what is the relationship between one's motive for imagining power and the image one ends up with."
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"If you're asking for a date, forget it. 'Cause I make it a point not to go out with women who shoot me in the head!"
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