You must be careful when you ask people whether they’re happy; it’s a question that can upset them a great deal.
If a believer demands that I, as a nonbeliever, observe his taboos in the public domain, he is not asking for my respect, but for my submission.
If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.
You can think you've made it and yet the next day's press will always be waiting for you, the public will always ask more of you. In short, you can always do better!
Clapton asked my brother to play on his record. I thought that was the most wonderful thing in the world.
Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods.
There was something of relative freedom in that feudal gesture of the vow; for no man asks vows from slaves anymore than from spades.
When I see a story, I ask: is this something I'd like to be in? Is this something I'd like to see? And if I'd like to see it, would I like to tell it?
People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.
The fact of the matter is it's very reasonable to ask the wealthiest estates to pay their share. We did that since Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican president.
After Survivor, I was driving across country and moving to San Francisco, going to get a job interning at an ad agency. And then they asked me to read for this movie.
What if, I never tire of asking, we said 'Secret Council' instead of the archaic and therefore cuddly 'Privy Council'?
as self-knowledge develops, we begin to care more about what we think and less about what others ask of us. We
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
I get asked a lot what the key is to creating a hit show, and I have a standard answer: Do everything right, and then get lucky 10 ways.
Somebody once asked me how I found Peter Jackson, and I said: 'Well, I parted his hair, and there he was.'
I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.
If you ask around, it's pretty easy to find someone who has a bank account overdraft horror story to tell.
So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.
I don't believe he had a responsibility to even answer that question - you have no responsibility to answer personal questions that people have no right to ask you.
You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?'