"I always start out with an idea, even a boring idea, that becomes a question I don't have answers to."
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"I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer."
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"The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within."
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"For the average American, the message is clear. Liberalism is no longer the answer. It is the problem."
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"Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are."
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"There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man"
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"All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. If one could but realize this knowledge, if one could but bring it into the light of day, if we dogs would but own that we know infinitely more than we admit to ourselves!"
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"Guess now who holds thee?'--'Death,' I said. But, there, The silver answer rang, . . . 'Not Death, but Love."
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"Present global culture is a kind of arrogant newcomer. It arrives on the planetary stage following four and a half billion years of other acts, and after looking about for a few thousand years declares itself in possession of eternal truths. But in a world that is changing as fast as ours, this is a prescription for disaster. No nation, no religion, no economic system, no body of knowledge, is likely to have all the answers for our survival. There must be many social systems that would work far better than any now in existence. In the scientific tradition, our task is to find them."
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"It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer."
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"I feel like a good director provokes you to ask questions about your character, but doesn't answer them for you."
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"If Google doesn't know the answer, then it's not a question"
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"An artist must only judge of what he understands, his field is just as limited as that of any other specialist... That in his sphere there are no questions, but only answers, can only be maintained by those who have never written and have had no experience of thinking in images."
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"Maybe the poets are right. Maybe love is the only answer."
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"Sometimes, the best answer is a more interesting question."
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"Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible."
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"Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received."
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"I will be the leader of a company that ends up being worth billions of dollars, because I got the answers."
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"I will not take "but" for an answer."
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"If one really knew what one was doing, why do it? It seems to me if you had the answer why ask the question? The thing is there are so many questions."
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