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"Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions."
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"Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much."
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"I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?"
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"A series of disconcerting questions nibbles at hearts of troubled youths. These same unanswered questions, along with their acerbic toxins, reveal their pungent fumes more frequently and with greater intensity as a person rushes headfirst into life's concrete jungle."
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"Never ask a bore a question."
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"My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not intellectual. Sometimes when you ask the simple questions like 'Who are you?' or 'What do you do?' you learn the most."
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"Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know."
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"I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?"
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"And the sculptor woman was so clever in the way she did it. She had the beret just about to leave my hand. So it's attached to this finger and that's what will keep it there. And I'm looking up at it, so there's no question but that that beret is going to fly."
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"The question is: Where would it get you if something that's a little bit ambiguous in the movie is made clear? It doesn't get you anywhere."
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"Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?"
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"I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known."
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"Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't."
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"I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers and Revival Churches."
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"I feel that my whole life is a contribution."
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"One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties."
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"Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't."
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"Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions."
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"I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. I would be very glad to tell you my life if you want to hear of it."
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"I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it."
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"I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American."
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