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Question Quotes
"This is definitely a playoff team. There's no question about that. It's just a matter of how much we want it."
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"The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best."
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"But heat can also be produced by the friction of liquids, in which there could be no question of changes in structure, or of the liberation of latent heat."
41
"Well, because lots of questions had been raised about the toxicity of the drug, which is very serious."
40
"Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself."
36
"All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?"
35
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question."
33
"The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?""
33
"That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer."
30
"I've been fortunate to come on places where the question isn't why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didn't anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about."
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"I am writing a sequel to The Touch because I want to further explore the Chinese question that I have raised. There will be more about that in a sequel."
24
"The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself."
24
"I try to ask visual questions. I'll ask what someone was wearing, if that seems relevant. If possible, I'll walk over the same ground that they're depicting. Of course, I can never get it precisely as it was."
23
"Then they held my mouth shut for a while and hit me in the face, and with a whip across chest and back. I then collapsed, rolled on the floor, always keeping face down and no longer replied to any of their questions."
23
"I was raised with the notion that it was OK to ask questions, and it was OK to say, I'm not sure. I believe, but I'm not quite so certain about the resurrection."
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"Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all."
21
"That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer."
21
"The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'"
20
"To be a bitch or not to be a bitch, that is the question."
20
"We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions."
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"I asked Dalai Lama the most important question that I think you could ask - if he had ever seen Caddyshack."
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"I tell fundamentalists that there is no question of them attacking our Republic's foundations."
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"So it eventually became a question of WHEN they were going to make a movie."
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"Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions."
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"I don't tend to question things that much. If it feels right, I go for it."
15
"It's a very good question, very direct, and I'm not going to answer it."
15
"The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes."
15
"There are things that I won't do on the radio. I mean, the next logical question is, what won't you do. I say, well, you know, you've got to find out when you're on the air."
15
"My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever."
15
"It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species."
15
"I've made it abundantly clear and I'll repeat yet again there's no question of gagging individuals."
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