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When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, "What choice do I have?"

I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.

And if you ask again whether there is any justice in the world, you'll have to be satisfied with the reply: Not for the time being; at any rate, not up to this Friday.

Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.

We need to ask our policy makers and those we elect to office who are supposed to make decisions to give us the evidence of the facts that are behind the decisions that we make. We should be skeptical.

There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, "Yes," you know he is a crook.

Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.

When I'm hiring a cook for one of my restaurants, and I want to see what they can do, I usually ask them to make me an omelette.

Along the way I have been able to choose some themes which ask questions - not necessarily force a message on anyone, but at least invite the audience to question things: jury service, dignity in dying, Ireland - and not least because they force me to ask myself questions. Where do I stand?

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

We ask for way too much stuff - way too much stuff. You got a job making $100 a year and bought a house for $3 million. Talking about, 'I don't know what happened with the payment.'

When I was 20, journalists would ask me what I would do when I retire from waterpolo. For me this is not just a five- or ten-year-period in my life. This is life itself.

I think that everyone at any age should ask themselves, 'where do I want to be today, where do I want to be tomorrow, and where do I want to be in a hundred years?' We all have clear answers to those questions. We only have so much time. It's a real shame if we don't spend our lives trying to do that.

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Today we thank God for all the blessings He has bestowed upon this great Country and ask Him to continue to heal our land and meet our needs - and we do so through the power of prayer.

When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?

People ask me where I go to get away, and I say 'Home.'

We had been working. We had a bunch of songs written and it came time to make the record, so we had our lawyer make the call to Elektra and ask for our advance. Then, we got dropped. It was actually exciting.

When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.

Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides.

I'm amazed that years after I stopped playing tennis, people still recognize me in restaurants and ask for my autograph.

What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?

I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?

Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise.

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.

Ask yourself if these Democrats still speak for you. When they say we have a duty to grow government even when we can't afford it, does it sound like compassion to you - or recklessness?

Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators.