#asking

Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again. ↗

— Ethel Waters

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Here we have been sitting down for a brief moment and you are already asking me if there are pictures of me in my drawers. ↗

— Anthony Weiner

#asking #been #brief #brief moment #down

You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking? ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#away #back #could #from time to time #give

I'm constantly asking for alternative views on most things that come to me. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

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I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they're not calling me up and asking me for dinner. ↗

— Bob Woodward

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It is also worth asking whether the strict limitations of Geneva make sense in a war against terrorists. ↗

— John Yoo

#also #asking #geneva #limitations #make

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#country #desert #first #oasis #parasite

When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are 'What are you doing now?' and 'How are you going to beat that?' And I have to say, I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly - that you're in battle against yourself. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking? ↗

— John Gunther

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