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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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• There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.

  

  Plautus
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• If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.

  

  Mary Douglas
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• It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.

  

  O. Henry
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• As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
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• One thing I love to do is produce. I've produced a couple of bands. I mean, nothing ever really happened with 'em, but I enjoy getting a young band into the studio and guiding them, and making them feel at ease.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
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• Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.

  

  Tom Lehrer
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