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  • Since many people have been asking me to elaborate on why I think "Inglourious Basterds" is akin to Holocaust denial, I'll try to explain what I mean as succinctly as possible, by paraphrasing Roland Barthes: anything that makes Fascism unreal is wrong. For me, "Inglourious Basterds" makes the Holocaust harder, not easier to grasp -- as a historical reality, I mean, not as a movie convention. Insofar as it becomes a movie convention, it loses its historical reality.

    Mean   Reality   Thinking  
  • English is full of booby traps for the unwary foreigner. Any language where the unassuming word fly signifies an annoying insect, a means of travel, and a critical part of a gentleman's apparel is clearly asking to be mangled.

    Mean   Gentleman   Asking  
    Bill Bryson (1990). “The Mother Tongue”, William Morrow Paperbacks
  • Always think twice before asking anything of anyone that ends in the words, on your face.

    Thinking   Asking   Faces  
  • Asking for financial advice from a financial planner is like asking a barber if you need a hair cut.

    Cutting   Hair   Advice  
  • Hey, Sydney. I thought I saw your car out there." He glanced around. "Is, uh, Jill with you?" "Not today." I said. New insight struck me as I recalled that Lee attended school in Los Angeles. "Lee, have you ever dated a human girl at your school?" Adrian arched an eyebrow. "Are you asking him out, Sage?" I scowled. "No!

    Girl   School   Eyebrows  
    Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.90, Penguin
  • God is not bothered by your persistence. Keep asking.

  • In many instances the conduct of colored workmen, and those who have spoken for them, has not been in asking or demanding that equal rights be accorded to them as to white workmen, but somehow conveying the idea that they are to be petted and coddled and given special consideration and special privilege. Of course that can't be done.

    Rights   Ideas   White  
    "The Samuel Gompers Papers: The American Federation of Labor and the Great War, 1917-18". Book by Samuel Gompers, edited by Peter J. Albert and Grace Palladino, p. 348, 2006.
  • You can't learn the truth about a man's intentions by asking him.

    Men   Asking   Intention  
  • There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much.

    May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.72, Open Road Media
  • If you ask men why they did a good job, they'll say, 'I'm awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?' If you ask women why they did a good job, what they'll say is someone helped them, they got lucky, they worked really hard.

    Jobs   Men   Lucky  
    "Be a Thought Leader — 9 Steps to Influence and Media Attention" by Susan Harrow, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2013.
  • There are always consequences to actions that you take. There are consequences to inaction. And thinking through, asking the questions, "Well, then what happens? What comes next?" is critically important.

    Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. January 26, 2015.
  • I tried not to write about the O.J. Simpson case too much because so much has already been said about it, but there are a lot of questions left worth asking. However, the case is very useful to illustrate other points. The case is a common reference point because everybody knows the ins and outs of it, more than any other case in this generation, so it becomes useful to reference other points. In itself, there aren't that many questions about it that remain unanswered.

    "Writer Bill James". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 20, 2011.
  • Not all Scripture is propositional, some of it is asking questions, some of it's rhetorical, but where Scripture is stating something, asserting something, making a truth claim, uttering a proposition that is claiming to be true, it is the truth.

    Source: www.booksataglance.com
  • I'm asking you, I'm begging you, could you please shut your mouth for just five minutes?" You can imagine the reaction. They ended up in the basement.

    Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.72, RH Childrens Books
  • No one is asking what happened to all the homeless. No one cares, because it's easier to get on the subway and not be accosted.

    Asking   Care   Subway  
    "You can't hold back the human spirit". Interview With David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.
  • The most important question is, 'Am I asking the most important question?' The second most important question is, 'Am I asking the most important question in the most important way?'

    Important   Asking   Way  
  • We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer in the taproom and had heard the whole conversation. Who was I? What did I want? What did I mean by asking questions? He had a fine flow of language, and his adjectives were very vigorous.

    Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.425, GENERAL PRESS
  • I'm so touched that complete strangers will send me a script asking me to be in their film. That still amazes me - and sometimes for a lot of money too.

    "Liam Neeson - 'A sex symbol? Flattering, but I don't think so'" by Gill Pringle, www.independent.co.uk. April 5, 2012.
  • Science attempts to figure out laws and then uses it later. While the work of art reflects the cosmic order without asking for an explanation

    Art   Order   Law  
  • It is a rule of mine never to ask unsolicited questions of people over twenty-one. I am only giving them the option of lying if they choose to. They would tell me the truth without my asking if they wanted me to know. To me that's fair enough.

    Lying   People   Giving  
    Dorothy West (1996). “The Richer, the Poorer: Stories, Sketches, and Reminiscences”, Anchor
  • Never asking a direct question, even though the other person can guess what it is you want to know.

    Life   Asking   Want  
  • On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time. You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, contemplating a crime. She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain. Don't bother asking for explanations, she'll just tell you that she came in the year of the cat.

    Song: The Year Of The Cat
  • To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man.

    Men   Thinking   Order  
    John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.189
  • Money solves a lot of problems and when you don't have money, you've got to do all this other stuff to solve the problem. It's very hard. I would love to have not necessarily a studio because then you lose so much control but I would love to have decent independent financing where I have the freedom and I have the money to do it right, to not be asking people to work for free or to work for half the rate and not ask those favors again and again because I now owe all these people back who've helped me.

    Source: collider.com
  • But what's regret anyway? Regret, I am learning these days, is a lot of things. But mostly, it's a slippery seed of longing, of looking back and asking yourself why you didn't know better when the answers were so obvious all along.

  • Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep fulfilling all the obvious duties of your station (you really know quite well enough what they are!), asking forgiveness for each failure and then leaving it alone.You are in the right way. Walk---don't keep on looking at it.

    Trust   Artist   Leaving  
  • Too many people asking too many questions in tennis. Golf is better.

    Golf   People   Tennis  
  • Artists want to sell their work, sure. But they aren't out there asking questions about what people want and what they don't want, now are they?

  • Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.

  • The sole relief I am asking for is to be released from military prison after serving six years of confinement as a person who did not intend to harm the interests of the United States or harm any service members.

    Military   Years   Six  
    Source: www.truth-out.org
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