All Quotes

I arrived in Bangkok in 1980: I was 23 years old, and it changed my life.
‐‐ Jean-Georges Vongerichten

I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.
‐‐ Victoria Principal

I arrived in Hollywood and lived much of my life in America, but the fans did not really know me.
‐‐ Persis Khambatta

I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox.
‐‐ Gene Kelly

I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
‐‐ Barbra Streisand

I arrived in Los Angeles on the Monday, had a call from my agent to say they wanted to see me for 'Dallas,' made an audition tape at my friend's house in L.A. the same day, and had the job the following Monday.
‐‐ Juan Pablo Di Pace

I arrived in New York in 1986, when I was 28. The market here was nothing. In the Union Square farmers' market, it was a couple of potatoes, everything from California. So the only place I was comfortable shopping was in Chinatown, because it all came from Hong Kong.
‐‐ Jean-Georges Vongerichten

I arrived in the U.S.A. in 1935, to San Francisco. I got the boat from China, and I didn't even speak English. I could read a little, perhaps write a little, but that was all. It was a 17-day journey, and I learnt to speak English from the stewards.
‐‐ I. M. Pei

I articulate the deepest need of the Filipino people, which is reform of a corrupt culture.
‐‐ Miriam Defensor-Santiago

I, as a cricketer, would like to see 100 counties playing top-flight cricket, just like tennis and football. If I am alive to see that, I will be very happy.
‐‐ Kapil Dev

I, as a fan of numerous TV shows and movies, know that people mess up. The characters that we love are not always going to act in the ways that we want them to. That's what makes them interesting.
‐‐ Rita Volk

I as a Muslim want you, as a Christian, to really be a perfect Christian. I want my Jewish friends to be perfect Jews, to live according to the highest principles of what it means to be a Jew, to be a Christian, to be a Muslim.
‐‐ Feisal Abdul Rauf

I as an elected official would never recommend anybody to boycott any city or state.
‐‐ Jan Brewer

I, as prime minister, never went to Washington. Certainly never went to a presidential ranch. I hate to say this, but I wasn't going to be the pilot fish to the shark, whereas Australia quite happily bobbed along like a happy little pilot fish with a shark who was a messy eater, and I just couldn't feel like that.
‐‐ David Lange

I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.
‐‐ Frantz Fanon

I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia.
‐‐ Michael Moore

I ask all my actors to do two things: I ask them to fail for me, and I ask them to surprise me.
‐‐ Derek Cianfrance

I ask every Communist individually to set an example, by deeds and without pretense, a real example worthy of a man and a Communist, in restoring order, starting normal life, in resuming work and production, and in laying the foundations of an ordered life.
‐‐ Janos Kadar

I ask every man and woman occupying a place of responsibility whose duty it is to teach the gospel of Jesus Christ to live it and keep the commandments of God, so that their example will teach it.
‐‐ Heber J. Grant

I ask everyone's opinion when they don't speak up. And then when they have an opinion, I'll ask others to talk about it.
‐‐ Ginni Rometty

I ask for a lot of advice from different fathers - all kinds of dads.
‐‐ Hank Azaria

I ask for calm yet resolute voices to be heard in our communities. It is imperative that people of good will, those who believe in a just and fair criminal justice system, hear our voices.
‐‐ Marcia Fudge

I ask Hoosiers to come together and vote for Barack Obama to be our next President.
‐‐ Joe Andrew

I ask Liberians to pray so that God will bring peace and stability, and bring about unification to ourselves.
‐‐ George Weah

I ask myself a lot of question about my work as an actress. We shall see. Plenty of friends tell me, 'Of course you must continue acting,' but I'm not sure.
‐‐ Julie Gayet

I ask myself questions that journalists don't dare to ask or don't know how to ask.
‐‐ Pedro Almodovar

I ask myself why I do it. Maybe it's to prove I'm still around. It takes a lot out of my body. I'm not an NBA player anymore. At my age, very few people can handle it.
‐‐ Jerry Stiller

I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication?
‐‐ Gene Tierney

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.
‐‐ Ellen DeGeneres

I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone.
‐‐ Trevor Phillips

I ask questions. I watch the world. And what I have discovered is that the parts of my fiction that people most tell me are 'unbelievable' are those that are most closely based on the real, those least diluted by my imagination.
‐‐ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.
‐‐ George Mason

I ask the American administration not to participate in any resolution that will double the suffering of the Palestinian people. I am convinced that the American people would not want to see the Palestinians suffer the way they do.
‐‐ Ismail Haniyeh

I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.
‐‐ Al Franken

I ask the American people to consider the legacy this administration has handed us in the defense budget as we spend billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars without the tools and ability to track these dollars.
‐‐ Rick Larsen

I ask the educational system, the parents, the church, and pillars of the community to help shape a new culture of honesty, patriotism, respect, discipline and service for young Filipinos.
‐‐ Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

I ask the members of the Knesset to be very strict about maintaining the principles of democracy.
‐‐ Reuven Rivlin

I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility.
‐‐ John Rowland

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
‐‐ Victoria Woodhull

I ask the vice president to stop dodging the issue with legalese, and acknowledge his continued ties with Halliburton to the American people.
‐‐ Frank Lautenberg

I ask to be judged on the issue of unemployment.
‐‐ Francois Hollande

I ask unanimous consent that I be able to deliver a floor speech on immigration reform in Spanish.
‐‐ Tim Kaine

I ask you, people who care about the soul of Ukraine, those who want to preserve the heart, the spirit and the faith of our country for future generations, to please defend it.
‐‐ Yulia Tymoshenko

I ask you to find your voice and use it not only to choose your elected officials but to shape the issues that will shape our lives.
‐‐ David Ige

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
‐‐ Franklin D. Roosevelt

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
‐‐ Paul Cezanne

I ask you to stand by my side in the next five years. We shall live a good life in a Romania of all Romanians.
‐‐ Traian Basescu

I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.
‐‐ Bob Riley

I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.
‐‐ Robert Mueller