Harry S Truman Quotes
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I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
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My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions.
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I consider no man honest who does not observe towards other nations the principles which he desires to be observed towards his own: and therefore I will not interfere in your domestic questions.
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I'm truly glad I've managed to get the public interested in questions about basic research.
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Most directors that I've worked with - I've worked with before, especially in Holland - and they know that I'm somebody who talks and asks, and talks, and talks, and talks and questions and turns things around. I'm like a little cat, walking around my little nest until I find my place.
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If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.
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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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I don't mind doing interviews. I don't mind answering thoughtful questions. But I'm not thrilled about answering questions like, 'If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?'
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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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I'm an entertainer and I entertain people and they entertain me back by asking questions. And some of them I answer.
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Well, we are. I'd like to know when you're going to answer the questions?
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Good stories flow like honey but bad stories stick in the craw [gullet]. What is a bad story? It's a story that cannot be absorbed in the first time of reading. It's a story that leaves questions unanswered.
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The resulting weird system must have so puzzled my examiners that they couldn't or wouldn't ask any telling questions at my oral defense.
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I do a lot of reading, a lot of studying. I ask questions, I'll go out, travel these countries, I'll watch how their people live, and I learn.
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Don't listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions.
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I asked myself childish questions and proceeded to answer them.
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Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.
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Change your habitual questions and change your destiny!
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I'm really sort of cautious about being too didactic. To me there are writers that can do that, but I think they drown in that after a while. I do think the job of a writer is to raise questions and nobody likes the questions being asked.
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I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.
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I love horror movies.
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I think the first role I ever played was Mr. Bumble in a production of 'Oliver.'
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A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are established, limited, and defined, and by which these powers are distributed among several departments, for their more safe and useful exercise, for the benefit of the body politic.
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Some questions cannot be answered, but they can be decided.
