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• First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas.

  

  Daniel Yergin
  • People
  • Different
  • Energy

• I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors.

  Curtis Sittenfeld
  • Up
  • Question

• Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Power
  • Mean

• I don't know how to put this gently, but I'm trying to tackle the biggest question of all, which is the God question.

  

  Charlie Trotter
  • God
  • Trying
  • Question

• The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Real
  • Peace
  • Stop

• The management question, therefore, is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away. You will do that. … Hence plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.

  

  Fred Brooks
  • Question
  • Management

• I'm exploring the long history of women, first of all, being silenced and, secondly, not being taken seriously in the political and public sphere. It's a call to action through understanding and through looking at ourselves again and trying to reformulate the whole question of women and power.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Long
  • Women
  • Trying

• One of the reporters must have flunked journalism school because he asked a question that went straight to the point.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • School
  • Funny
  • Journalism

• I'd blurted out the question only to keep him from noticing that I was working my hands free, but the Warden behind me, some young brown-haired surfer dude, yelled a warning. "She's getting loose!" Narc.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • She
  • Free
  • Surfer

• It is out of the question that the task of socialist women's activity should be to alienate proletarian women from duties as wives and mothers; on the contrary, it must operate so this task is fulfilled better than before, precisely in the interests of the proletariat.

  

  Clara Zetkin
  • Women
  • Question

• If someone asks me a question, it is very difficult not to answer honestly.

  

  Penelope Tree
  • Question

• Protagoras asserted that there are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.

  

  Diogenes
  • Question
  • Opposite
  • Protagoras

• There's no question that a vinyl record is a lot nicer than a CD. It's nicer to hold in your hands, you can do more with it.

  

  Simon Le Bon Duran Duran
  • Question

• When dealing in the technology, it becomes a question of whether you overuse something. I think that's worse than having something technologically available to you and not using it.

  

  Al Michaels
  • Question
  • Technology

• There's no question young drivers have far more accidents than older ones-but is it our aim to keep them off the roads? Or to allow only rich young people (who can afford the premiums) to drive?

  

  Andrew Tobias
  • People
  • Question

• Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Science

• So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.

  

  Bjorn Lomborg
  • World
  • Question

• The stupidest question I get is 'Is Goldberg your real name?' I tell people, 'No, my real name is Killer, but I wanted a much more menacing name, so I picked Goldberg.'

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • People
  • Real
  • Question

• He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marry. A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Men
  • Fortune
  • Impediments

• What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the 'voice within' tells you.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Question
  • Solved

• The one question, the one principle, the one crisis in art of the twentieth century centers in the uncompromising 'purity' of art, and in the consciousness that art comes from art only, not from anything else.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Art
  • Question

• No question it's repairable. We'll be sailing again before the trials and everything will be fine. We're extremely fortunate.

  

  Dennis Conner
  • Question
  • Fortunate
  • Sailing

• I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them.

  

  Eli Wallach
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Music
  • Words
  • Poetry

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