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Question Quotes
"Of course I'm not a racist, but I'm certainly right wing, there's no question about that."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'"
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"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."
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"Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question."
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"That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer."
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"I think that by following the route that I have tried to outline, one gets into a much more interesting and productive series of questions than those that result from saying simply that Chinese don't like milk because they don't like milk."
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"It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it."
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"It's about putting the pedal to the metal and not asking any questions at all and just going for it."
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"Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie."
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"Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions."
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"Without question, conditions in the Haiti are worse since Aristide's removal, and continue to deteriorate."
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"Try to guess my answer to that question, however temptingly you pose it."
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"I don't tend to question things that much. If it feels right, I go for it."
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"But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake."
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"Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions."
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"During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected."
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"What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why."
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"It was not easy to get all my questions answered, frankly."
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"It's a very good question, very direct, and I'm not going to answer it."
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"When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?"
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"The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question."
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"It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?"
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"Someone once asked me what was the weirdest question I was ever asked. And I was stymied."
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"To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat."
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"I like to think that I have no single view nor any single situation that I think things arrive from. I try to give examples of what I think are interesting questions for me."
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"The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes."
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"A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements."
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"I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule?"
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"I've made it abundantly clear and I'll repeat yet again there's no question of gagging individuals."
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"Look, it's one of the great mysteries of the world, I cannot answer that question. I think I'm vaguely blonde. To be perfectly frank, I don't know."
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"It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones."
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"I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked."
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"The issues surrounding illegal immigration are wide-ranging and complex, but there is no question about the need to secure our borders."
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"My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions."
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"I think the sea has thrown itself upon me and been answered, at least in part, and I believe I am a little changed - not essentially, but changed and transubstantiated as anyone is who has asked a question and been answered."
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"Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient."
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