Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.


Orson Welles

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MARK STEINBECK
Don't ask what your community can do for you. Ask what you can do for your community.
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Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.
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Ask not what the government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.
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WHY YOU DO, is more important than WHAT YOU DO.
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Its not its what your country can do for you what you could do for your country.
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Don't ask how long can your good fortune last. Ask what can you do to make it last.
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Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
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It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.
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What else can you ask for?
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Neglecting what you have and showing hate for what you do not have. The universe will bring more hat...
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I do not ask to profit. I ask for what is fair and proper.
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Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?
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Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.
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First do for yourself what you ask of others.
DONNA M THOMAS
Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.
ROBERT FROST
If you do your homework you will know what is fair and reasonable to ask for. Don't settle for less.
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The dog is a reflection of your energy, of your behavior. You have to ask, 'What am I doing?'...
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You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for... unless it's conta...
FRANKLYN BROUDE
You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for... unless it's conta...
FRANKLYN BROUDE
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare...
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You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that...
D'BRICKASHAW FERGUSON
How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember w...
ORIANA FALLACI
In our own lives, let each of us ask - not just what government will do for me, but what can I do fo...
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Congressmen ask for what their constituents ask for,
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Glamour is what makes a man ask for your telephone number. But it also is what makes a woman ask for...
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Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it.
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I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.
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Well, everybody is trying to make this a money thing. If you send me to another team, let's see ...
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It's not a dream season, but I'm pleased. We're having fun. What more can you ask for?
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Don’t waste your time trying to impress others to satisfy their ego. do what you love & love what ...
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Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.
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What more can you ask for than to see a ballgame in spring?
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Americans are so direct. They'd ask me, 'What's your five-year plan? Do you have a five-...
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It's always best to ask for forgiveness if you feel that you made a mistake. And again, asking f...
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My father was very methodical about life. He'd always ask me, 'Now, what's your system? ...
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Ask for what you want, don't wait for what you get, for you may never get what you need.
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You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them.
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Before you ask someone what happened, ask yourself do I really care.
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If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out t...
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He thought himself awake when he was already asleep. He saw the stars above his face, whirling on th...
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Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.
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It was good weather, good wrestling ... what else can you ask for on Christmas break?
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If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover....
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Your gift or calling enables you to ask the question of what to do
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Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he f...
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People will ask, 'And what do you do?'
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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
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Ask not of me, love, what is love? Ask what is good of God above; Ask of the great sum what is...
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Do what you love doing.
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I always say leave things at the door. Whether it's at your audition or at your house, leave the...
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If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, b...
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But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - par...
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppe...
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The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall ...
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in th...
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The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a...
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God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - t...
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Working is hard and distracts from having fun.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to...
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I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.
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Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
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Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.
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It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are...
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.
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Nearly all men and women are poetical, to some extent, but very few can be called poets. There are g...
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Our Heavenly Father is far more merciful, infinitely more charitable, than even the best of his serv...
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Sound moral principle is the only sure evidence of strength, the only firm foundation of greatness a...
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You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are...
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Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreci...
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The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The...
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Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liber...
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No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to the development of su...
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The other four houses yielded jewelry, wallets, credit cards, laptops, iPads and Kindles, even a cou...
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in th...
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You made them hate me." Said Ender
"So? What will you do about it? Crawl in a corner? Start kis...
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No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the...
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I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I w...
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