#ask

The National Intelligence Director needs the authority to do the job we are asking him to do. That means power over the intelligence budget. And to be effective, to be allowed to do his or her job, they must have authority over the budget. ↗

— Leonard Boswell

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You have to have confidence. You can't be someone who's so insecure that she's a basket case. ↗

— Kate Bosworth

#case #confidence #insecure #she #someone

Both of my sisters have been teachers and they used to say you get asked between 300 and 600 questions every day which you have to answer. That's exactly what directing is. And the vast majority of those questions are not very interesting really, but they need somebody to make a decision - a good one or a bad one - and they follow it. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#asked #bad #bad one #been #between

Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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Let us return, however, to the League of Nations. To create an organization which is in a position to protect peace in this world of conflicting interests and egotistic wills is a frighteningly difficult task. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#create #difficult #difficult task #however #interests

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes. ↗

— Bob Uecker

#asked #bats #been #box #dozen

She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted. ↗

— David Brin

#bringing #called #child #debt #full

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world. ↗

— Tom Brokaw

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Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#ask #best #cannot #even #few

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

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