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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."
89
"Well, because lots of questions had been raised about the toxicity of the drug, which is very serious."
79
"The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best."
63
"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."
61
"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."
55
"All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?"
54
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question."
53
"The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?""
50
"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."
46
"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."
45
"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."
42
"That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer."
42
"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."
40
"The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself."
40
"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."
37
"I asked Dalai Lama the most important question that I think you could ask - if he had ever seen Caddyshack."
37
"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."
36
"To be a bitch or not to be a bitch, that is the question."
35
"By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter."
34
"Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions."
34
"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."
34
"So it eventually became a question of WHEN they were going to make a movie."
34
"The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'"
33
"There is no question that we must do more to secure our borders - but how we go about securing them is also important."
33
"Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?"
33
"I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along."
33
"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."
32
"Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed."
32
"Of course I'm not a racist, but I'm certainly right wing, there's no question about that."
32
"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."
32
"Many life-affirming questions lead to an endless spool of disconcerting propositions and contradictory conclusions, and even more troubling, some queries prove unanswerable."
32
"Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question."
32
"Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all."
31
"I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question."
31
"It's about putting the pedal to the metal and not asking any questions at all and just going for it."
31
"It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up."
30
"That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer."
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