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Question Quotes
"Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself."
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"Did you hear that? I didn't hear anything. Put that question another way."
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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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"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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"Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one."
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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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"It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species."
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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 see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question."
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"I think that by following the route that I have tried to outline, one gets into a much more interesting and productive series of questions than those that result from saying simply that Chinese don't like milk because they don't like milk."
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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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"It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?"
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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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"The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best."
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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've made it abundantly clear and I'll repeat yet again there's no question of gagging individuals."
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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 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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"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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"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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"Try to guess my answer to that question, however temptingly you pose it."
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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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"Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie."
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"I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked."
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"To be a bitch or not to be a bitch, that is the question."
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"If somebody's not prepared to answer the question, you can keep asking."
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"My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever."
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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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"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 do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along."
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"That's a difficult question, because to consider yourself a rebel is sort of ridiculous."
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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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"No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?"
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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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"Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the 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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