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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
  • People
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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
  • People
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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
  • Life
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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
  • Family
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• My mother is from Compton, California, but my father is from Hayneville, Alabama, and that's less than 20 miles from Selma.

  

  Ava DuVernay
  • Mother
  • Father
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• Walking alone is not difficult but when we have walked a mile worth a thousand years with someone then coming back alone is what is difficult.

  

  Faraaz Kazi
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• When Phil and I started out, everyone hated rock n' roll. The record companies didn't like it at all - felt it was an unnecessary evil. And the press: interviewers were always older than us, and they let you know they didn't like your music, they were just doing the interview because it was their job.

  

  Don Everly The Everly Brothers
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  • Rock

• America does not want vulgarity and sexual exploitation to be our values and we do not want the world to think those are our standards. We want to be a better nation and a better people, with better standards.

  

  Charles W. Pickering
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• All I have learned through trial and error is to stay alert and aware, especially God smiling @ our silliness.

  

  Brennan Manning
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• Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.

  

  Tom Lehrer
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