Asking in sentence

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So what I'm asking you is, the world is hungry.

And we even went as far as asking ex-commanders of the guerrilla to fly on helicopters with microphones telling the people that used to fight with them, "There is a better life out there," "I'm doing good," "This is not worth it," etc.

Now the question you're probably asking yourself is, why is she telling us all these stories?

So it was pretty obvious after this process that, well, we chicken out here and go away because it's too tense, or we go even further in asking, what else is bothering you?

Three months later, after traveling all around the country, I had recorded 33 films, only with the help of local people, only with the help of people that I was asking all the time the same question: What is important to record here today?

Maybe they'll stop students from asking questions.

Within a month, my employers were getting calls asking for me to be fired.

They've come out of the jungle asking for help.

And for the last decade, I've been asking myself why that is.

And I'm not asking you to take any crazy risks.

It was the marijuana march, a gathering of people asking for the legalization of cannabis.

And that was really exciting to a journalist, but the most interesting part was when I got back home, actually, because I learned that I had been watched by more than 90,000 people, and I got hundreds of emails and messages of people asking me, basically, how did I do it, how it was possible to do such a thing.

The first time I met with the prisoners, I asked them why they were asking for a writing workshop and they told me they wanted to put on paper all that they couldn't say and do.

So then we moved on to adult butterflies, and we started asking the question whether it's the mothers that can medicate their offspring.

So we started asking questions one by one.

And over time, we started asking other questions.

And so, the question we were asking was, how can we be taking care of people?

So we set up a foundation, which now has, for 11 years, three schools, where we started asking the same questions, how do you redesign school for wisdom?

Or B) "But what is math really for?" (Laughter) I'll now address Case B. (Laughter) When someone asks you what math is for, they're not asking you about applications of mathematical science.

They're asking you, why did I have to study that bullshit I never used in my life again?

That's what they're actually asking.

I'm asking my friends from America to help with bringing nurses or doctors to help us out.

In an article in the magazine Redbook titled "You: PMS Free," readers were informed that between 80 to 90 percent of women suffer from PMS. L.A. Muscle magazine warned its readers that 40 to 50 percent of women suffer from PMS, and that it plays a major role in women's mental and physical health, and a couple of years ago, even the Wall Street Journal ran an article on calcium as a treatment for PMS, asking its female readers, "Do you turn into a witch every month?"

Some of these images are degraded images of black people, kind of histories of very challenging content, and where better than a neighborhood with young people who are constantly asking themselves about their identity to talk about some of the complexities of race and class?

So people started asking us, "Well, Theaster, how are you going to go to scale?" and, "What's your sustainability plan?" (Laughter) (Applause) And what I found was that I couldn't export myself, that what seems necessary in cities like Akron, Ohio, and Detroit, Michigan, and Gary, Indiana, is that there are people in those places who already believe in those places, that are already dying to make those places beautiful, and that often, those people who are passionate about a place are disconnected from the resources necessary to make cool things happen, or disconnected from a contingency of people that could help make things happen.

So I think many people watching this will be asking themselves the question you just raised at the end: How can they do this in their own city?

I was at the World Economic Forum not long ago talking to corporate executives who have massive businesses in the developing world and I was just asking them, "How do you guys protect all your people and property from all the violence?"

But I say, look, I'm not asking you to believe me.

The problem's actually a bit worse than this 'cause we're not just sending poor kids to prison, we're saddling poor kids with court fees, with probation and parole restrictions, with low-level warrants, we're asking them to live in halfway houses and on house arrest, and we're asking them to negotiate a police force that is entering poor communities of color, not for the purposes of promoting public safety, but to make arrest counts, to line city coffers.

All I'm asking is for forgiveness.

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