#asking

The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family - my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid - to live in the apartment building. ↗

— Tom Morello

#apartment #asking #building #estate #family

I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#been #black #brainwashed #completely #deep

If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I love being coached by Bill Belichick. ↗

— Randy Moss

#being #bill #brady #coached #happy

I'm so touched that complete strangers will send me a script asking me to be in their film. That still amazes me - and sometimes for a lot of money too. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#asking #complete #film #i #lot

A saint is a person who gives of themself without asking for anything in return. That's how simple it is to be a saint. Try it! Try being a saint. ↗

— Edward James Olmos

#asking #being #gives #how #person

I was never challenged when it came to acting as a youngster. I sort of just did whatever was given to me without asking questions. I didn't really understand why I enjoyed it or why I did it. ↗

— Mary-Kate Olsen

#asking #asking questions #came #challenged #did

You have this impression from England that New Yorkers can be quite aggressive, but certainly the people that I've bumped into and the friends I've made here don't seem that way. Just walking down the street and asking for directions, people seem to be very helpful and happy to help. ↗

— Archie Panjabi

#asking #bumped #certainly #directions #down

I have so much residue crap in my hair from years and years of not washing it and not having any sense of personal hygiene whatsoever. Even today, I go into these things where I'm supposed to be this sexy guy or whatever, and I'm literally asking, 'If I get plumes of dandruff on me, can you just brush it off?' ↗

— Robert Pattinson

#asking #brush #crap #even #get

Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#asking #because #grow #grow up #ideas

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#answers #asking #get #questions #worry