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Question Quotes
"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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"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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"I'm different, and my manner invites questions. I'm never afraid to answer."
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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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"Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything."
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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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"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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"What is the answer? In that case, what is the 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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"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 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'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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"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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"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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"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 best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions."
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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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"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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"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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"And the sculptor woman was so clever in the way she did it. She had the beret just about to leave my hand. So it's attached to this finger and that's what will keep it there. And I'm looking up at it, so there's no question but that that beret is going to fly."
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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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"I guess the one question I will not get today is: When are you going to do anything about cellular?"
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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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"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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"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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"Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one."
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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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"But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again."
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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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"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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"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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"Did you hear that? I didn't hear anything. Put that question another way."
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"If somebody's not prepared to answer the question, you can keep asking."
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"That's a difficult question, because to consider yourself a rebel is sort of ridiculous."
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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 no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like."
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