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• I’ve done a lot of interviews of the last few years, and I’ve actually started a list of questions that it would be fun to ask an author, but no respectable interviewer would ever ask. Since I’m not respectable, I’m going to start doing interviews with some authors I know, just for fun.

  Patrick Rothfuss

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  Tags in Respectable, Questions

• I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

  Veronica Roth

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  Tags in Goodness, Questions

• Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Fear, Inspirational

  Tags in Agnosticism Atheism, Questions

• Some men see things as they are and say, “Why?” I dream of things that never were and say, “Why not?”

  George Bernard Shaw

  Topics in Ideals, Inspirational, Politics

  Tags in Change/Growth, Patriotism, Dreams, Purpose, Questions

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

  Imogen Cunningham

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• I was raised with the notion that it was OK to ask questions, and it was OK to say, I’m not sure. I believe, but I’m not quite so certain about the resurrection.

  Peter Jennings

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  Tags in Questions, Believe In Yourself

• I’ve done thousands of interviews in my life, and it’s a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I’m navigating this world that I’m in.

  Ian MacKaye

  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in Think, Questions, Idea

• My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it’s on your plate — that’s my philosophy.

  Thornton Wilder

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  Tags in Now, Questions, Philosophy, Credo, Creed

• I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

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  Tags in Questions, Problem, Really

• If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions for the others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

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• It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

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  Tags in Differences, Decide, Questions

• Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

  Freeman Thomas

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  Tags in Intuition, Questions

• I’ve always been one of the youngest guys on the team. But now I’m one of the older guys, one of the more experienced guys, and I have to be more of a leader. The guys are looking up to me, asking me questions and looking at me to step up.

  Freddy Adu

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• Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.

  Franz Marc

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• Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.

  Patrick McGoohan

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  God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there’s no turning back.

  Gloria Steinem

  Topics in God

  Tags in Turning, Questions

• For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future.

  Francois Jacob

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  Tags in World, Questions, After

• It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them.

  Georges Cuvier

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• Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.

  George Wald

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

  Susan Sarandon

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  Tags in Questions, Really