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Question Quotes
"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'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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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 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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"What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?"
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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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"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 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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"Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like."
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"Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one."
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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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"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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