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Question Quotes
"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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"Did you hear that? I didn't hear anything. Put that question another way."
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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 different, and my manner invites questions. I'm never afraid to answer."
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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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"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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"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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"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 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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"That's a difficult question, because to consider yourself a rebel is sort of ridiculous."
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"You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask."
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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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"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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"What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?"
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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'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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"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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"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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"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 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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"If somebody's not prepared to answer the question, you can keep asking."
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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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"There are many questions, but I cannot answer because I'm not a businessman, I am a climber."
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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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"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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"Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one."
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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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"Be like Curious George, start with a question and look under the yellow hat to find what's there."
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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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"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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