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Answers Quotes


"The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions."


"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard."


"I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally."


"Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt."


"Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers."


"All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord."


"What's the message in Metallica? There is no message, but if there was a message, it really should be look within yourself, don't listen to me, don't listen to James, don't listen to anybody, look within yourself for the answers."


"You never have to know all the answers because you won't be asked all the questions."


"We have a world that is searching for answers, that is searching for a way back to spirituality."


"We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers."


"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."


"I still don't have all the answers. I'm more interested in what I can do next than what I did last."


"We'd like to have immediate answers to all of our questions. I think medicine in particular. I found it frustrating as a physician sometimes to not be able to tell someone exactly why something was happening to them. There are still so many mysteries in medicine."


"The great thing about The Clash of course is that they keep searching for answers beyond that."


"The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers."


"Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems."


"I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation."


"If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience."


"It is possible to be different and still be all right. There can be two - or more - answers to the same question, and all can be right."


"I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers."


"In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear."


"An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions."


"I have to laugh internally when I'm asked in interviews what nightspots I like to hit. I just don't have answers... so sometimes I make them up."


"There are no explanations, there are no answers."


"The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries."


"It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing."
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