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"It is hard to apply oneself to study when there is no money to pay for food and lodging. I almost never explain these things when folks are asking me why I don't do this or that."
"You're asking me will my love grow. I don't know, I don't know. You stick around now it may show. I don't know, I don't know"
"It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money."
"But questions that don’t answer themselves at the very moment of their asking are never answered."
"Do I believe in God? Can't answer, I'm afraid. I'm not being flippant, but I don't understand the question. What is it that I am supposed to believe or not believe in? Are you asking whether I believe there is something not in the universe (or the universes, if there are (maybe infinitely) many of them), and that somehow stands above them? I've never heard of any reason for believing that."
"If you have not the experience, ask. There is no shame in asking, but do not pretend you know when you don't."
"Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day."
"It is easy to get to a higher number when you are not asking anything difficult from yourself."
"I think I have an ongoing conversation with God. I think throughout the day, I'm constantly asking myself questions about what I'm doing, why am I doing it."
"With documentary-film projects, you hope you highlight an area of concern people haven't thought about before. A lot of times, I'm asking myself - 'This seems to be a significant problem. What can be done that hasn't been done?"
"Never asking a direct question, even though the other person can guess what it is you want to know."
"I believe everything is one thing only. That said, there are some questions in my life that I don't know.. I've stopped asking. At the very beginning of my life, I wanted to have answers for everything. And now I respect the fact that I can't have answers for everything."
"Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds; and his friends asking him if any accident had befallen him, he returns this answer: "Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them, we have not yet conquered one?"
"When you ask it is given - but at some point you have to stop asking and start expecting."
"Asking in prayer helps you to see your problem in the light of God's power."
"Always think twice before asking anything of anyone that ends in the words, on your face."
"The women's movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked. I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices."
"Do you have any Greek in you? That was just a tactful way of asking if you're pregnant. If you're not, then let's break up."
"When we ask God to transform those who oppose us, we are also asking God to transform us."
"People are always asking me in interviews, 'What do you think of foreign affairs?' I just say, 'I've had a few.'"
