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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a general supervisory authority, raises serious constitutional questions.

When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered.

There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.

I asked him a number of questions and I got some very interesting answers. Ken's heroes, according to Christopher, would be people like John Wayne, of course.

I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

The reactions haven't differed; the concerns have been different. When I read for a predominantly Indian audience, there are more questions that are based on issues of identity and representation.

Questions have arisen about the policing of science. Who is responsible for the policing? My answer is: all of us.

Questions have also arisen about AIDS being transmitted to hemophiliacs via blood transfusions.

To address questions of scientific responsibility does not necessarily imply that one needs technical competence in a particular field (e.g. biology) to evaluate certain technical matters.

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

You can't say history teaches us this or that; it gives us more questions than answers, and many answers to every question.

It is hard to know what you are talking about in mathematics, yet no one questions the validity of what you say. There is no other realm of discourse half so queer.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

I'm not a big theory person. So when I get asked questions that demand serious statements, I just make it up.

I adore people who ask questions and who cause others to share in their search.

Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed.

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

Being Muslim has become synonymous with pointed questions, with tension and mistrust, even with conflict. It has become a global phenomenon with profound consequences for inter-communal relations, political rhetoric and policies at the local, regional, national and international level.

I don't want to respond to rumors that have no basis at all... But I am willing to respond to questions that the public and the press should know.

Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.

Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

I can't write. I can handle bits of simple-minded advert copy or a poster slogan, so answering questions is about all I'm good for.

Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask.

Good questions outrank easy answers.

I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions.

You guys ask really long questions. In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with.

Then they held my mouth shut for a while and hit me in the face, and with a whip across chest and back. I then collapsed, rolled on the floor, always keeping face down and no longer replied to any of their questions.

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.

It was not easy to get all my questions answered, frankly.

I think in the wake of 9/11, like a lot of Americans, you know, we were all very traumatized by the attacks, traumatized in a totally different way by some of what happened afterward in response. And I think there have been these questions hovering in the past decade of, what kind of country are we? Who are we?

We were the first people who did investigative stuff, who asked occasionally abrasive, occasionally confrontational questions.

I like being misunderstood.

And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.

Part of my heritage being Korean, it's going to be interesting going to Korea and answering these questions dealing with North and South Korea.

That's where I began to ask questions that maybe don't have one specific answer. And the more people you get answers from, the richer the environment becomes.

I would love to interview Dave Grohl. I just think he's an amazing musician, and I grew up listening to Nirvana, so I have so many questions about that.

Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.

If you could sit down with Jesus, you wouldn't need anybody else. He could answer all of your questions. Instead of Einstein and Louis Pasteur and Madame Curry, you could just have Jesus and he could answer for all of them.

My movies are not movies of answers but of questions.

Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.

They ask questions like 'do you believe in aliens' and those types of things. They were really interested in aliens, and that was really something that the Japanese have an interest in, and they are also very big fans of romances.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

I didn't respond to people thrusting microphones at me and asking me questions that were unanswerable in a sound bite.

I think that all comics or humorists, or whatever we are, ask questions. That's what we're supposed to do. But I not only ask the questions, I offer solutions.

As mayor of Milwaukee, I've had many developers come and many businesses come and have asked for financial assistance from the city, and my questions have always been: how many jobs are we talking about and are these family-supporting jobs.

We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.

What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.

I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.

You can have all the information you want in the world. If you don't have the people raising questions and looking beneath the surface, and people being paid to do this, you're not going to find the answers.

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

I also believe that the Supreme Court should be the final arbiter of all federal questions.

I find it odd that there's such strong objection to what is a clear way to assure that our elections are reliable and we can do a recount if there are any questions.

One of the reasons I don't have kids is because I think people would have been very unfair to them. Think of it. You're still asking me questions about The Exorcist.

Every clarification breeds new questions.

Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they have learned to new questions.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

There are many questions, but I cannot answer because I'm not a businessman, I am a climber.

One can always debate questions back and forth.

I'm getting tired of answering the same questions every day.

I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

Every time I get tested, I ask questions about it, and I watch how they do it.

I really enjoy when I'm asked questions that leap from the physical world and the material world into our hearts.

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

I appreciated and respected kids who asked questions. They didn't do it to get attention, but because they were interested. Kids who didn't want to look dumb seemed like scared little rabbits.

The questions I'm asking myself are, 'What makes me happy? Where do I want to be? What will make me happy at 50, 60 and 70?'

When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.