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Questions Quotes
Sometimes the question matters more than the answer.
One recurring idea here is that questions reveal more about a person than their answers do, and that certain periods in life exist only to raise questions rather than settle them. See Ask quotes for more on the act of asking.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't have a lot of men to ask questions of when I was starting out. There were two female directors people suggested I talk to when I was starting out, and they were Nancy Meyers and Kathryn Bigelow.
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my films have raised questions on issues that are contemporary and relevant to our times.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not going to fill in the potholes. It's not going to put a roof over people's heads. What it does is it helps to address really fundamental questions of who we are, where we came from, by which I mean we can learn how life came about.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
And indeed, last week, the FBI executed a search warrant on my residence. This happened one day after my attorneys had left a message on the lead FBI investigator's voice mail confirming my continued readiness to answer questions and otherwise cooperate.
- Philosophy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
- Philosophy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I once interviewed David Herbert Donald, the Lincoln historian, and we talked about how one deals with the secondary sources and the previous biographies. He said something which kept coming back to me as I worked on Cleopatra, which was: 'There's no further new material; there are only new questions.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining.
- Elicit
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- Nov 07, 2020
In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells that lodge an image in the mind and put the listener in the burning house.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.
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- Nov 07, 2020