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Question Quotes
"This is definitely a playoff team. There's no question about that. It's just a matter of how much we want it."
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"Well, because lots of questions had been raised about the toxicity of the drug, which is very serious."
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"Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all."
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"I try to ask visual questions. I'll ask what someone was wearing, if that seems relevant. If possible, I'll walk over the same ground that they're depicting. Of course, I can never get it precisely as it was."
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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 about putting the pedal to the metal and not asking any questions at all and just going for it."
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"That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer."
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"I don't tend to question things that much. If it feels right, I go for it."
"I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question."
"But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake."
"Without question, conditions in the Haiti are worse since Aristide's removal, and continue to deteriorate."
"The problem we were struggling with within the closed market was what the incentive would be. You probably wouldn't use dollars. But those are all questions that need to be explored."
"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."
"Everybody is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or ambitious to do."
"That's a difficult question, because to consider yourself a rebel is sort of ridiculous."
"Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?"
"The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'"
"Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything."
"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."
"We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?"
"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."
"I guess the one question I will not get today is: When are you going to do anything about cellular?"
"It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it."
"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?"
"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."
"I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question."
"It's a very good question, very direct, and I'm not going to answer it."
"I've been fortunate to come on places where the question isn't why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didn't anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about."
"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?"
"Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed."
"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."
"I'm not going to deny it. I'm a neat person, there's no question. But I don't become obsessed with it."
"The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best."
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