Malcolm X
Civil Rights Activist, Minister
"An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books."
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Asking Questions
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers."
Kobe Bryant
Professional Basketball Player
"When you love something, you'll always come back to it. You'll always keep asking questions, and finding answers."
Naomi Campbell
Model
"I'm determined, and I'm passionate and driven about whatever I commit myself to do. If I don't know something, I'm going to ask, and I've got no problems in asking questions. I never have. People ask me, "Are you nervous when you go on the runway? You don't look it." Yes, I am."
John Lennon
Musician, Activist
"People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions."
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"My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions."
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"Don't wait for mentors to seek you out. Don't ever wait for your phone calls to be returned, your letters to be answered, your faxes to be responded to. Keep going out and asking question."
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"Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment."
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"Kick-start your brain. New ideas come from watching something, talking to people, experimenting, asking questions and getting out of the office!"
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"When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die."
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"Once the law starts asking questions, there's no stopping them."
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"There are no right answers to wrong questions."
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"Artists want to sell their work, sure. But they aren't out there asking questions about what people want and what they don't want, now are they?"
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"I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were."
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"Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was "What's your alma mater?" I told him, "Books." You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I'm not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man."
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"This is not a day for asking questions, not a day on any calendar. This day is conscious of itself. This day is a lover, bread, and gentleness, more manifest than saying can say."
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"Telling is not selling. Only asking questions is selling."
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"People don't know what Kabbalah is, and so they jump to conclusions. For me, studying Kabbalah is studying - is just - is asking questions. And I encourage all of my children to be that way, and I think people don't understand that. And so they make assumptions and they judge."
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"I was really intrigued by them, became fascinated by them because they were asking questions that couldn't be answered almost, or were making statements that you couldn't quite understand. Like, 'I'm investigating things that begin with the letter M.' That took me through a whole stratosphere of possibilities, and doing a little research and discovered that the M is mercury."
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"What's the ultimate price I'll pay if I don't stop this indulgence now? By asking questions like this, they'll associate pain to overeating, and their behavior will change immediately."
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"And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions."
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"If you want access to the files of valuable information in a computer, you must understand how to retrieve the data by asking for it with the proper commands. Likewise, what enables you to get anything you want from your own personal databanks is the commanding power of asking questions."
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"Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life."
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"Not all Scripture is propositional, some of it is asking questions, some of it's rhetorical, but where Scripture is stating something, asserting something, making a truth claim, uttering a proposition that is claiming to be true, it is the truth."
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"You force people to stop asking questions, and before you know it they have auctioned off the question mark, or sold it for scrap. No boldness. No good ideas for fixing what's broken in the land. Because if you happen to mention it's broken, you are automatically disqualified."
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