To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus.
~By Al Franken ~
You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time.
~By Dave Eggers ~
Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or the easiest, or which picture is my favorite. This last question is like asking a mother which child she likes the most.
~By Philippe Halsman ~
By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
~By Walter Gilbert ~
There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.
~By Audre Lorde ~
There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country.
~By Nick Lampson ~
I knew exactly what I was, and there was no hang-up with me. None whatsoever. The fact that the pigment of my skin maybe being lighter brown than other people of my race, maybe some of them, but you know our race has all colors.
~By Billy Eckstine ~
None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.
~By Marian Anderson ~
It is also worth asking whether the strict limitations of Geneva make sense in a war against terrorists.
~By John Yoo ~
It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
~By Vida Blue ~
The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.
~By John Sexton ~
The problem is, of course, that these interest groups are all asking for changes, but their enthusiasm for change rapidly disappears when it affects the core of their own interests.
~By Angela Merkel ~
My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose.
~By Gene Simmons ~
No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.
~By Lion Feuchtwanger ~
Well, I think that those of us in public life that are trying to do a good job, and that are faced with this popular new game that the media has of being critical of everything that anybody in public office does probably are thin-skinned.
~By Bill Scott ~
It's like a prehistoric reflex, you know, going out and getting the meat and bringing it back to the cave. You feel you're supposed to make it better, but more than likely she's asking you to tell her how you feel.
~By Fred Ward ~
Honestly, I like everything, boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny.
~By Angelina Jolie ~
It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses.
~By Barbara McClintock ~
Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.
~By John McCarthy ~
Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.
~By Catherine the Great ~
People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.
~By Lorna Luft ~
Bond was how Fleming saw himself; the sardonic, cruel mouth, the hard, tight skinned face.
~By Terence Young ~
A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee to institute impeachment proceedings against these five justices.
~By Vincent Bugliosi ~
The film was made in 1973. It was a golden time for people to experiment without risking, for example, AIDS. Today one has to be so much more careful and I don't think a character like that could exist now.
~By Sylvia Kristel ~
Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?
~By Richard Corliss ~
I could make good time because I was so long and skinny, shooting through the water like a stick.
~By Johnny Weissmuller ~
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
~By Anais Nin ~
Scotty heard that I was thinking about quitting Apple because of his actions, so he called me into his office and asked what it would take for me to stay? I said, maybe if I could work on the Mac project, which Steve had just taken over from Jef Raskin.
~By Andy Hertzfeld ~
And I'm asking for your support because I want to defend America, as I've said before, from becoming a socialist nation.
~By Christine O'Donnell ~
We've had Audrey Hepburn, we've had Twiggy, we've had Veruschka, we've had Kate Moss. I'm trying to figure out why I am to blame for skinniness.
~By Rachel Zoe ~
It's not a very secure industry. I've spoken to a couple of people recently who had a successful TV show and then found themselves absolutely skint and struggling to find a job.
~By Mackenzie Crook ~
Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door.
~By Lorna Luft ~
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
I think by that time I knew where Chewie was going, and he left me to do what was called for, because the character had been well established. You know, it was like putting on a second skin by that time.
~By Peter Mayhew ~
In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.
~By George Canning ~
Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?
~By Candace Cameron ~
Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.
~By Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
Man is the only animal that can be skinned more than once.
~By Jimmy Durante ~
I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.
~By Anne Rice ~
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
I was not great behind the counter. I had a week off without asking for it. Another time, we had a cart go up in flames, and we went out on another cart, which we wrecked by running it into the cart that was on fire.
~By Mike Weir ~
To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film.
~By Edward Zwick ~
It was not easy with a newborn, asking your wife to give up the family home and your security.
~By Heston Blumenthal ~
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.
~By Jesse Jackson ~
I had temping jobs also. I liked the flexibility. There was no asking for time off; you just didn't work.
~By Todd Barry ~
I think it is fair to say that it is under a great deal of stress, and if I am asking for significant changes, it is because the world is going through significant changes.
~By Mohamed ElBaradei ~
Furthermore, there is no good ethical or economic reason for asking workmen and current producers to forego all economic gain in order to increase the purchasing power of all the wealth accumulated in past years.
~By Charles E. Wilson ~
Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
~By Horace ~
I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.
~By Primo Levi ~
I speak relatively little, except when I'm at home and I'm asking for things.
~By Roger Moore ~
I just got a call one day from Ringo asking me if I wanted to go out on the tour. It was as simple as that. He was putting together this band and he heard of me in the context of doing this and he gave me a call. I jumped at the chance.
~By Greg Lake ~
If I was in a room with a bunch of skinheads talking about racism, then I would be disturbed, but after we finished a take, we were normal people again.
~By Edward Furlong ~
If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
~By Bruce Jenner ~
There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
~By Lily Tomlin ~
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
You walk off the plane in Rio, and your blood temperature goes up. The feel of the wind on your face, the water on your skin, the taste of the food, the music, the sexuality; Brazilians are very comfortable in their sexuality.
~By Amy Irving ~
When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny, it looks like you're near death.
~By Kirstie Alley ~
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
~By Mel Brooks ~
And people coming up asking for autographs, there's only one time when it kind of bothers me: when I'm eating.
~By Enrique Iglesias ~
The discoloration is very minimal. I have not turned blue. The extent of skin discoloration is not even remotely near what the news media are saying. It is barely noticeable.
~By Stan Jones ~
We can see, so we are always blind to things deeper than skin.
~By Joe Chung ~
I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
~By Lara Flynn Boyle ~
I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are.
~By Joseph E. Stiglitz ~
Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a Black artist with White skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what's in your own soul.
~By Teena Marie ~
When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
~By Lillian Smith ~
Asking the government to help you for short periods of time is different than asking the government to take care of you for the rest of your life.
~By Donna Shalala ~
Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
The color of somebody's skin or the way he wears his hair or clothes has nothing to do with anything.
~By Judge Mills Lane ~
I don't see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I'm skinny, as if that's supposed to make me happy.
~By Angelina Jolie ~
Skinheads are becoming part of our overall movement.
~By Tom Metzger ~
I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.
~By Billy Joel ~
A thick skin is a gift from God.
~By Konrad Adenauer ~
Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.
~By Matthew Henry ~
If you are asking for my point of view, I would say that the Palestinians should go back to Palestine.
~By Hassan Nasrallah ~
I had an idea for a story about a young woman who was living with people who were different, not just superficially different - such as hair colour, or eye colour, or skin colour - but different in some significant way.
~By Jean M. Auel ~
The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
~By Gloria Steinem ~
Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one.
~By Len Deighton ~
I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.
~By Diane Sawyer ~
And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure.
~By Heston Blumenthal ~
In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point.
~By John Sexton ~
My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason.
~By Will Smith ~
To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.
~By Ronald Fisher ~
I use products from my dermatologist but the best things you can do for your skin, are not smoke always use sunscreen and drink a lot of water.
~By Sela Ward ~
Ever since I'm done with Zim everyone thinks that I'm going to go back to comics. I've been flooded with emails asking me if I'm working on the new Johnny over and over again.
~By Jhonen Vasquez ~
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
~By Robert M. Hutchins ~
The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.
~By Austin O'Malley ~
If you're asking me to compare myself to other people, I don't really know what other people are like.
~By Jules Shear ~
Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
~By Vernon Howard ~
More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.
~By Dan Lipinski ~
Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
It's pretty clear that over the last three months the economy has paused. And it's also pretty clear the American people are still demanding and asking the question, 'Where are the jobs?' And the reason we don't have new jobs is because of the job-killing agenda pursued by President Obama and his allies in the Congress.
~By John Boehner ~
Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.
~By Adela Florence Nicolson ~
Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.
~By Robert Half ~
Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
But today I felt different, today I forgot how long it takes to get into the skin of a character and I remembered it, because today I actually got into that skin and it felt so different.
~By Estelle Parsons ~
I am actually 7 foot and and one-half inches tall. I say Seven two because it's easier. Unlike some tall skinny guys I am really "big" weighing around 350 pounds.
~By Richard Kiel ~
That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character.
~By Pam Grier ~
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