In some ways, calm bodily protest has a nakedness to it that may be deeply embarrassing for observers; an act not unlike the bare-faced Oliver Twist effrontery that stands vulnerably before authority, asking for more or better.
Michael Leunig
CalmBetterAuthorityMoreAsking
I ended up going to do a matches program at the state for industrial design. And from there, I got hired at IDEO to joint their design team there - and basically, you are starting as an industrial designer to design products - and then kept asking the question, 'What else can design accomplish? What else can design do?'
Arvind Gupta
TeamDesignYouAccomplishAsking
If you're asking me in a general context whether I'm for or against the burkini, the response is simple: I oppose the burkini.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
SimpleMeYouContextAskingOppose
It's about time we stopped asking what the computer can do for us and instead ask ourselves what we can do for the computer.
Pranav Mistry
TimeAskUsAskingComputerAbout
Writing is the process of asking the next logical question.
J. Michael Straczynski
WritingProcessQuestionNextAsking
There was a guy that I got to know pretty well - Joe Grant. He was one of the creators of Dumbo and worked side-by-side with Disney. Being a total Disney nerd, I was obsessed with asking him questions. He was 92 when I got to know him.
Pete Docter
QuestionsKnowHimPrettyAsking
The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.
Florynce Kennedy
LawyersGarbageQuestionSameAsking
Challenge me. Treat me like a game of checkers and play me. That's all I'm asking, just play me. Treat me like Sega and play me.
Shaquille O'Neal
ChallengeMeTreatGamePlayAsking
People say, like, 'Are you a regular person?' 'Well, I'm not a robot, if that's what you're asking, I really am a person.'
Abigail Breslin
PeopleYouPersonSayRobotAsking
No one is asking for an Oprah in Chief. Anyhow, Obama is too chilly by nature ever to be convincing as a human care package.
Tina Brown
NatureCareHumanChiefAskingEver
I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.
Barbara Kruger
I AmPeopleThinkCriticismAsking
Virality, at its core, is asking someone to spend their social capital recommending or linking or posting about you for free.
Ryan Holiday
FreeSomeoneYouSocialCoreAsking
People are always asking me what my favorite food is. I say, 'Food that tells me where I am.'
Mark Kurlansky
FoodI AmPeopleMeSayAsking
I've reached the point where people text me randomly for favors, like, 'Hey can I pick your brain?' People I haven't talked to in years are asking for favors. It's like, 'Wow people really got some nerve.'
Luvvie Ajayi
PeopleMeBrainYearsPointAsking
I think if somebody commits to somebody by asking a woman to marry you, you should keep that commitment.
Joanna Krupa
CommitmentWomanThinkYouAsking
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.
Len Deighton
BookInterestingWhyFirstAsking
It is not viable for one country to demand a right to increase and upgrade its nuclear weapons capabilities while asking others to eliminate theirs.
John Bruton
CountryOthersRightAskingUpgrade
Nowadays, as soon as a striker scores three goals, everyone starts asking him about it.
Just Fontaine
GoalsThreeHimEveryoneAsking
People still ask my husband and me which of us is the mom - which, as one lesbian friend pointed out to me, is like asking which chopstick is the fork. This pressure on us to embody normative traditions can be paralysing.
Andrew Solomon
FriendPeopleMeMomHusbandAsking
Iconic Paris tells us: here are our three-star attractions, go thou and marvel. And so we gaze obediently at what we are told to gaze at, without exactly asking why.
Julian Barnes
ParisGoWhyWithoutGazeAsking
If you're asking me, would I have voted for Mitt Romney, the answer is absolutely not. Emphatically not. I cannot envision a world in which I would have voted for Mitt Romney unless I sustained a massive concussion.
John Oliver
MeWorldYouAnswerCannotAsking
Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'
Henry Miller
WorkGoodJoyWhyWillAsking
Effective management always means asking the right question.
Robert Heller
ManagementQuestionRightAsking
I've been very surprised by people asking me what my teenage experience was like.
Gia Coppola
ExperiencePeopleMeAskingBeen
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