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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.

I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?

The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments.

You're never guaranteed about next year. People ask what you think of next season, you have to seize the opportunities when they're in front of you.

This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?

People ask me, what was your rock bottom? I say, pick.

When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.

If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

I go around the room and ask people, 'What do you think?'

When I ask for help with my creativity, I get it.

What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.

If you don't ask, you don't get.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of reconciling Indigenous and other Australians.

Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.

People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in the society.

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

I've had two fights within a month and I can't ask for more than that.