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Question Quotes
"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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"Try to guess my answer to that question, however temptingly you pose it."
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"Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question."
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"It's a very good question, very direct, and I'm not going to answer 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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"A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements."
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"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."
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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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"I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked."
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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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"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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"Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions."
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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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"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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"Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much."
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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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"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 was not easy to get all my questions answered, frankly."
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"Everybody is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or ambitious to do."
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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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"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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"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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"Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal."
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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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"My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not intellectual. Sometimes when you ask the simple questions like 'Who are you?' or 'What do you do?' you learn the most."
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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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"You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask."
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"I'm different, and my manner invites questions. I'm never afraid to answer."
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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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"It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones."
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"Without question, conditions in the Haiti are worse since Aristide's removal, and continue to deteriorate."
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