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My father identified as a black man. No one asked him because he was clearly black. But people always ask me. If we were together, people would look at us in a really strange way. It sucked. As a little girl I had blond hair and they'd look at me, look at him, and be disgusted.

It's pretty hard to say no when a vice president-elect and a president-elect ask you to be part of the national team.

I have always been very calm on the outside. I'm not too stressed now just because I'm in formula one. For me, tomorrow will be another day whether I finish first or last. I have to do the maximum and I cannot ask any more from myself.

You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.

It's easy for women to say they don't understand and ask a man for help. As the saying goes, boys play with toys, and girls play with boys.

As an actor, you don't often get a chance to know exactly the impact of what the audience is seeing, even though you can ask where the frame is. A move that feels tiny can be huge, and vice versa.

Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.

What I would ask the Democrat Party is to put your plan on the table, because most people agree with the facts, and the facts are that Social Security is running out of money.

We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?

Across the country, people are willing to tighten their belts and sacrifice. The president should ask the oil industry to do the same.

My ex-wife, she really didn't like the material that I did. And that's something I regret, that I wasn't more careful about making sure that she was O.K. with it. I just sort of didn't ask. So that's how that goes.

Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.

When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.

I meet people, I like to ask: which sign are you?

Sometimes you want to run away, sometimes you think you do, but you never had a dream like this before and you don't want to ask for more, sometimes you leave a mark before you know the score.

Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful.

It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask my ex-wife.

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

I believe that when we ask to be led, we are led, and there's nothing too small or esoteric for spiritual help.

People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of.

You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.

I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict.

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again?

If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know.

There are rumors that we want to move back to the U.K., but we're so happy in America I actually can't see us ever leaving... People ask me how long it took to adapt. Twenty minutes.

Investors have to ask themselves two questions. How much can we grow our investments? And, can we afford our mistakes?

Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.

How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don't you ask him? And besides, maybe we'd all like to be like Miles, and just haven't got the guts.

I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.