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Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.

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• If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
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• A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?

  

  J. D. Hayworth
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• With myself, how to pass time becomes sometimes the question - unavoidably, though it strikes me as a thing unspeakably sad in a life so short as ours.

  

  Walter Pater
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• There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.

  

  Nathaniel Rich
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• When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.

  

  J. J. Abrams
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• There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.

  

  Galen Rowell
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• Above and beyond drawing my creations, I try to incorporate some kind of message. I try not to end as merely a question but try to provide a conclusion within the work.

  

  Natsuki Takaya
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• Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy.

  

  Karl Radek
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• The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
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• Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
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• To me, I was right from the beginning, because it's my right as an American to speak up and question our president, have my point of view, have my opinion, question what I want to question, and say what I want to say about our government.

  

  Natalie Maines
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• We are seeing more managed money and, to an extent, institutional money entering the space. Anecdotally speaking, I know of many people who are working at hedge funds or other investment managers who are trading cryptocurrency personally, the question is, when do people start doing it with their firms and funds?

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
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• There is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all aimed at Gary Condit, besides the fact that he has a relationship.

  

  Barbara Olson
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• Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
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• The question of what it is to live an 'authentic life', that's a complicated one.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
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• If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
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• My family never told me like you have to be one thing. What do you want to be when you grow up? They think it's the most ridiculous question. You can be many, many things.

  

  Hannah Simone
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• Although when you look at people that say, from the same culture, roughly the same age, and not very difference intelligence, and you make a lot of detailed questions about the experiences of say colors, situations, and so on, you'll get very similar answers.

  

  Antonio Damasio
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• You can understand why the original framers of judicial ethics thought it would be undignified and would call into question the legitimacy of the judicial decision-making process to have mudslinging by judges, but the way that we hobble people of enormous integrity from defending themselves is, I think, deeply problematic in states where you have an elected judiciary, or a judge is subject to recall.

  

  Deborah Rhode
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• When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.

  

  Vera Wang
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• I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
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• I wear two hats at the 'Wall Street Journal': one as a columnist, the other as the editor responsible for our editorial pages in Asia and Europe.

  

  Bret Stephens
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• Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.

  

  Tom Lehrer
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