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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 have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors."
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"Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's."
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"Did you hear that? I didn't hear anything. Put that question another way."
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"But my question is, am I compromising by adapting my words for the audience and where is the line beyond which I am not adapting words, but changing my position?"
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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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"If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know."
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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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"I'm different, and my manner invites questions. I'm never afraid to answer."
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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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"Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient."
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"You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask."
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"What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?"
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"Everybody is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or ambitious to do."
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"I guess the one question I will not get today is: When are you going to do anything about cellular?"
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"I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?"
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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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"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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"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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"Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything."
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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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"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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"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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"And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so."
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"I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question."
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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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"There are many questions, but I cannot answer because I'm not a businessman, I am a climber."
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"Be like Curious George, start with a question and look under the yellow hat to find what's there."
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"That's a difficult question, because to consider yourself a rebel is sort of ridiculous."
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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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"Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much."
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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 somebody's not prepared to answer the question, you can keep asking."
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"Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one."
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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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