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Question Quotes
"Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?"
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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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"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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"Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful 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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"I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question."
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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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"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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"Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions."
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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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"Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions."
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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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"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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"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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"'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 was not easy to get all my questions answered, frankly."
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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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"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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"Everybody is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or ambitious to do."
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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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"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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"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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"Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Many life-affirming questions lead to an endless spool of disconcerting propositions and contradictory conclusions, and even more troubling, some queries prove unanswerable."
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"Without question, conditions in the Haiti are worse since Aristide's removal, and continue to deteriorate."
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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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"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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"Of course I'm not a racist, but I'm certainly right wing, there's no question about that."
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"Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question."
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"What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?"
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