Asking Quotes
2209 quotes by 1723 authors
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Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can…
— Terry Gross
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I've always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good…
— Terry Gross
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and…
— Walter Gilbert
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Growing up, I would watch a movie on video and would go to the back of the VHS and locate the address for Universal Pictures…
— Garrett Hedlund
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I think people expect mud at festivals, I think you'd be asking for your money back if you didn't get it.
— Peter Hook
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I had a vague idea of the song's impact in the '60s, but that was tempered by the hate mail and threats I was receiving.…
— Janis Ian
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My mother kept asking me, 'When are you going to do a gospel album?' And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was…
— Alan Jackson
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I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.
— Bill James
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I think I've been asked just about every question under the sun. I'm just really honored that people are even interested in asking me questions.
— Ken Jeong
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You're trying to find new ideas in people. I always think to myself, what question I am least comfortable asking the person? And then I…
— Chuck Klosterman
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No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.
— Hamid Karzai
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Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth…
— Robert Adams
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When people asked Socrates, ‘What is wisdom?’ he always gave the same answer: ‘I don’t know’. In fact, Socrates never claimed to know much of…
— Jim Rohn
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There is a strange idea aboard, held by all monetary cranks, that credit is something a banker gives to a man. Credit, on the contrary,…
— Henry Hazlitt
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There was a brief moment after 9/11 when Colin Powell said we should not rush to satisfy the desire for revenge. It was a great…
— Judith Butler
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May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
— Jack Kornfield
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You don't buy all the clothes in the market. You choose slowly and carefully, asking the prices for each before buying. The same way you…
— Michael Bassey
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If you have competence, you know the edge. It wouldnt be a competence if you didnt know where the boundaries lie. Asking whether youve passed…
— Charlie Munger
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You need philosophy. It sounds a little pompous but I think when you direct a film, the only way to find a response to the…
— Michel Gondry
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Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from and…
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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