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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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"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."
55
"The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best."
50
"Well, because lots of questions had been raised about the toxicity of the drug, which is very serious."
50
"All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?"
44
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question."
44
"The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?""
43
"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."
43
"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."
38
"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."
38
"That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer."
35
"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."
35
"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."
35
"The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself."
33
"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."
30
"Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions."
28
"The problem we were struggling with within the closed market was what the incentive would be. You probably wouldn't use dollars. But those are all questions that need to be explored."
27
"I asked Dalai Lama the most important question that I think you could ask - if he had ever seen Caddyshack."
27
"Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?"
27
"To be a bitch or not to be a bitch, that is the question."
27
"Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all."
26
"Of course I'm not a racist, but I'm certainly right wing, there's no question about that."
26
"We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions."
26
"The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'"
25
"There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too."
25
"So it eventually became a question of WHEN they were going to make a movie."
25
"Many life-affirming questions lead to an endless spool of disconcerting propositions and contradictory conclusions, and even more troubling, some queries prove unanswerable."
25
"'What do you really think happens after you die?' That's the question that everyone, everyone, everyone asks. And I'm so sick of it. But my true answer is, I don't know. And there's no way I'm going to find out 'til it happens."
24
"If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools."
24
"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."
24
"It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species."
24
"I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question."
23
"Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed."
23
"I tell fundamentalists that there is no question of them attacking our Republic's foundations."
23
"There is no question that we must do more to secure our borders - but how we go about securing them is also important."
23
"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."
23
"That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer."
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"Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question."
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