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Question Quotes
"Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all."
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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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"Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question."
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"Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question."
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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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"To be a bitch or not to be a bitch, that is the question."
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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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"I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question."
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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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"We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions."
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"Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions."
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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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"I don't tend to question things that much. If it feels right, I go for it."
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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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"Someone once asked me what was the weirdest question I was ever asked. And I was stymied."
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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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"It's a very good question, very direct, and I'm not going to answer it."
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"A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements."
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"Without question, conditions in the Haiti are worse since Aristide's removal, and continue to deteriorate."
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"Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions."
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"Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know."
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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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"Try to guess my answer to that question, however temptingly you pose it."
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"Of course I'm not a racist, but I'm certainly right wing, there's no question about that."
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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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"'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."
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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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"All I ever promised was that I was sure I could develop a new pharmacological agent which might answer a physiological question. Any utility would be implicit in that answer."
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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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"But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake."
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"My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions."
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"That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empirical observations within the logical framework of the propositions in question."
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"It was not easy to get all my questions answered, frankly."
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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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"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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"Once we get them in the studio, you interview a person the same way you would interview another. You ask them a question. You let them answer. You try to listen closely and then ask a follow-up."
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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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"But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it."
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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 feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked."
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"Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed."
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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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