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When I became a lawyer, no one asked me if I had spent some time in special ed. All they wanted was a good lawyer.
Someone once asked, 'What's your best pickup line?' I said, 'My best pickup line is, 'Hi, my name is Hugh Hefner.'
Whenever I am asked who I admire most among the leaders I have met, I have no hesitation in naming Nelson Mandela.
I've been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
People who have heard of me have heard of me mostly through presenting and asked, 'Why have you gone into comedy?'
What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?
I don't want to go back to the national team and play the hypocrite when some of them asked for me to be kicked out.
I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, 'What for?' I said, 'I'm going to buy some sugar.'
I've said yes to everything that Jon Stewart has asked me to do. That's been a pretty good career decision, I think.
I'm not being asked to conform to some prior expectation of what a Congress member is, but I'm just getting to be me.
Steve Jobs once asked me for some advice about retail, but I said, 'I am not sure at all we are in the same business.'
When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, 'Well, what do you need?'
I'm thrilled to be asked to host the Academy Awards for the second time because, as they say, the third time's a charm.
We wanted to be ourselves, to sing and speak with our own accent and it was fantastic that we were not asked to change.
I didn't want the children to grow up and, when asked what their mother did, say, 'Oh, Mom's a gun moll in the movies.'
In terms of TV shows, if you're a public figure, we've all been asked to do some sort of ridiculous show at some stage.
If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.
Missionaries are very human folks, just doing what they are asked. Simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt Somebody.
It is a burden because I get asked about my father all the time. I just need to accept that he was a champion before me.
Somebody asked me what do you regret. I said, well I was offered the role of Maverick in 'Top Gun' and I turned it down.
For many people, being asked to solve their own retirement savings problems is like being asked to build their own cars.
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, 'Ours.'
I had a 'Cats' phase, where I did lots of overturned furniture and trash cans. I asked for a fog machine for my birthday.
Sometimes I was in school plays, but only when the kid they'd originally picked got sick and they asked me to substitute.
In all seriousness, I'm flattered and humbled to have been asked to reprise my role as Luke in the 'Veronica Mars' movie.
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.
I'm asked daily about how and why I don't have PTSD. I'm probably the last person on Earth you should ask about this stuff.
The National Academy of Sciences would be unable to give a unanimous decision if asked whether the sun would rise tomorrow.
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
I have always been the kid who's asked 'Why?' In my faith, you're just supposed to have faith. But I was always like 'why?'
As of today, if I am asked abroad if I am a free citizen of the United States of America, I must only say what is true: No.
My best coach was Rudy Tomjanovich because he asked the players what they wanted to do. He felt we had a feel for the game.
I have gotten more than I asked for. All that I ever wanted was to hear my voice on record and have a song among the Top 20.
Someone asked me 'What's the funniest thing or what's the best thing that you've ever done?' It's always what I'm doing now.
I actually don't watch TV at all. If you asked me what my favorite TV show is, I couldn't tell you because I don't watch TV.
I think I've wanted to be an actress since the day I was born. I even asked my parents for an agent for my seventh birthday!
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
When I was outed by Perez Hilton as bisexual, I suddenly started being asked personal questions, which was really difficult.
As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us.
I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.'
We were the first people who did investigative stuff, who asked occasionally abrasive, occasionally confrontational questions.
Quentin Tarantino asked me to work with him but there is no way I am going to do that while Matthew Vaughn is working in film.
When Governor Romney asked me to join the ticket, I said, 'Let's get this done' - and that is exactly, what we're going to do.
I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'
Very few women get asked to be in the swimsuit issue, and I'm really proud to be one of so many beautiful and empowering women.
All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.
For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes.
Someone once asked, 'What is the difference between me and Saddam Hussein?' The answer is, 'I have a conscience and he doesn't.'