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Question Quotes
"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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"Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died."
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"He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It's simply a question of taste."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Someone once asked me what was the weirdest question I was ever asked. And I was stymied."
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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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"There is no question that we must do more to secure our borders - but how we go about securing them is also important."
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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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"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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"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."
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"There is no question you get pumped up by the recognition. Then a self-loathing sets in when you realise you're enjoying it."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Everybody is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or ambitious to do."
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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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"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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"Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything."
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"We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?"
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"It's a very good question, very direct, and I'm not going to answer it."
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"Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed."
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"The main question raised by the thriller is not what kind of world we live in, or what reality is like, but what it has done to us."
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"I'm not going to deny it. I'm a neat person, there's no question. But I don't become obsessed with it."
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"My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions."
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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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"It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like."
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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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"I don't know what I have said. I have answered so many questions and I am so confused I don't know one thing from another. I am telling you just as nearly as I know."
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"It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through."
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"Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions."
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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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"I do not believe that I have had an interview with anybody in twenty-five years in which the person to whom I was talking was not annoyed during the early part of the interview by my asking stupid questions."
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"A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements."
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"Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions."
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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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"It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones."
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"They're all focusing on how John Roberts is going to decide Roe v. Wade. That isn't even the right question. I don't even know of a case in the (court) system that addresses it."
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