Question Quotes
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So when I ask a simple question, where were you last night, you wanna yell and scream and try to flip it on me.
LeToya Luckett Destiny's Child -
There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business.
Brent Spiner
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Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.
John Tukey -
There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do.
Neil Gaiman -
Character has more effect than anything else. Let a number of loud-talking men take up a particular question, and one man of character, of known integrity and beauty of soul, will outweigh them all in his influence.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin -
Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school.
Karin Slaughter -
Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!
Ted Williams -
People often ask me why I don't take up more heroine-oriented roles. My question is, 'Where are these roles?' I really appreciate actresses who sign only films with meaty roles. However, there aren't too many of them. The industry is simply male-dominated.
Samantha Ruth Prabhu
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Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets. We need to question technology to insure that markets continue to perform their fundamental purposes.
Bart Chilton -
When you can't ask a question of your leaders anymore, that gets scary.
Joe Wurzelbacher -
What does it look like to build a city, state, or nation invested in communities thriving rather than their death and destruction? To ask this question is the first act of an abolitionist.
Patrisse Cullors -
All this machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted. Not so boldly charted, it's really just a question of your honesty.
Neil Peart Rush -
It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
Umberto Eco
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Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.
Felix Frankfurter -
But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
Ira Glass -
I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
Rand Paul -
I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
Patrick Wilson -
Whether a president can truly improve, or damage, an economy remains an open question.
Andrew Ross Sorkin -
Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?
Karl Shapiro
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Whether 'Avatar' is racist is a matter for debate. Regardless of where you come down on that question, it's undeniable that the film - like alien apartheid flick 'District 9', released earlier this year - is emphatically a fantasy about race.
Annalee Newitz -
I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.
Maajid Nawaz -
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 -
Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.
Karl Abraham