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Question Quotes
"A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements."
"When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?"
"'What do you really think happens after you die?' That's the question that everyone, everyone, everyone asks. And I'm so sick of it. But my true answer is, I don't know. And there's no way I'm going to find out 'til it happens."
"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."
"Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions."
"It was not easy to get all my questions answered, frankly."
"Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie."
"The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?""
"Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?"
"There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too."
"The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question."
"It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones."
"There are things that I won't do on the radio. I mean, the next logical question is, what won't you do. I say, well, you know, you've got to find out when you're on the air."
"I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked."
"The issues surrounding illegal immigration are wide-ranging and complex, but there is no question about the need to secure our borders."
"There is no question you get pumped up by the recognition. Then a self-loathing sets in when you realise you're enjoying it."
"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."
"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."
"Did you hear that? I didn't hear anything. Put that question another way."
"To be a bitch or not to be a bitch, that is the question."
"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."
"If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools."
"If somebody's not prepared to answer the question, you can keep asking."
"So it eventually became a question of WHEN they were going to make a movie."
"I am writing a sequel to The Touch because I want to further explore the Chinese question that I have raised. There will be more about that in a sequel."
"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."
"Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question."
"Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one."
"We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions."
"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?"
"Then they held my mouth shut for a while and hit me in the face, and with a whip across chest and back. I then collapsed, rolled on the floor, always keeping face down and no longer replied to any of their questions."
"Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient."
"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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