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• I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise longue, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword.

  Olivia de Havilland

  Perfect, Forever, Pearls

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• Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didnt: It was basically a semantics game.

  Talulah Riley

  Philosophy, Games, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Rocks, Jazz, Pops

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. June 22, 2010.

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• Music was the one thing I could control. It was the one world that offered me freedom. When I played music, my nightmares ended. My family problems disappeared. I didnt have to search for answers. The answers lay no further than the bell of my trumpet and my scrawled, pencilled scores. Music made me full, strong, popular, self-reliant and cool.

  Quincy Jones

  Strong, Self, World

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• Believing in God is a very intense inner struggle of mine. It's something I worry about a lot, but which I don't have the answer to.

  Emily Watson

  Believe, Struggle, Worry

  "This much I know: Emily Watson". Interview with Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2012.

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• Don't bother asking God for answers about life. Most likely you're asking the wrong questions.

  Josh Kilmer-Purcell

  Asking, Bother, Asking God

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• The way I see it you can never learn enough about the Bible. You can never learn all the answers. I love the way the instructors present it and break it down to you. It's helped me greatly in preaching the gospel.

  Frank Minis Johnson

  Bible, Preaching The Gospel, Way

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• When you learn to listen to your gutt, your find all the answers.

  Keshia Chante

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• There is nothing in the world that could make me turn from the law. With a clear conscience, I am prepared to answer for each and every one of my political and administrative orders and actions, and to do so before the court of public opinion.

  Djemal Pasha

  Order, Law, Political

  "A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility". Book by by Taner Akçam, Paul Bessemer, p. 246, 2006.

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• Inside each of us dwells a more-perfect self waiting to unfold. It cries loudly for release, yet it is sometimes ignored. To answer its call, you must take time to listen.

  DeBarra Mayo

  Self, Perfect, Waiting

  DeBarra Mayo (1983). “Yoga”, Anderson World

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• The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer.

  William Pfaff

  Problem, Found, Elites

  "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, ch. 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 28, 1989.

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• Warped with satisfactions and terrors, woofed with too many ambiguities and too few certainties, life can be lived best not when we have the answers - because we will never have those - but when we know enough to live it right out to the edges, edges sometimes marked by other people, sometimes showing only our own footprints.

  Rosalie Maggio

  Life, People, Satisfaction

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• All men are alike. If you ask any American man, 'How are you?' he'll answer 'Fine,' even if his mother just had a heart attack.

  Joan Hackett

  Mother, Heart, Men

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• Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. Follow-up is the answer to a bureaucrat's prayers.

  Susan Dunlap

  Prayer, Today, Tomorrow

  Susan Dunlap (2012). “The Bohemian Connection”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• The Irish question is this: Do the Irish know the answer to everything? ... And the answer to that is that we know fifteen different answers to every question. All of them right.

  Olivia Robertson

  Different, Fifteen, Knows

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• I'm just in an unfortunate business where if you ask me a question I have to answer it honestly and if I don't answer it truthfully then I'm not respected.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Ask Me, Honestly, Unfortunate

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• I got a family I got to answer to. I got kids my older parents and my preachers and everybody.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Kids, Parent, Preacher

  "Terry Bradshaw bares all in 'Failure to Launch'". www.today.com. March 9, 2006.

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• Sometimes, the best answer is a more interesting question.

  Terry Pratchett

  Interesting, Sometimes

  "The Science of Discworld". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1999.

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• If you're bourgeois, money is it. It's all the questions and all the answers. Ain't no E-flat or color blue, only $12.98 or $1,000. If it isn't money, it isn't nothing.

  John Coltrane

  Blue, Color, Flats

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• How strangely is antiquity treated! To answer some purposes it is spoken of as the times of darkness and ignorance, and to answer others, it is put for the light of the world.

  Thomas Paine

  Ignorance, Light, History

  Thomas Paine (1848). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.108

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• I urge all Texans to answer the call to serve those in need. By volunteering their time, energy or resources to helping others, adults and youngsters follow Christ's message of love and service in thought and deed. Therefore I, George W. Bush, Governor of Texas, do hereby proclaim June 10, 2000, Jesus Day in Texas and urge the appropriate recognition whereof. In official recognition whereof, I hereby affix my signature this 17th day of March, 2000.

  George W. Bush

  Jesus, Humor, Helping Others

  The "Jesus Day" Proclamation by George W. Bush, www.pbs.org. March 17, 2000.

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• Think about that. Two hundred and eighty-five new or expanded programs, $2 trillion more in new spending, and not one new bureaucrat to file out the forms or answer the phones?

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Thinking, Two

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• I hope we get to the bottom of the answer. It's what I'm interested to know.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Political, Bottom

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• And uh, so, I'm running for a reason. I'm answering this question here and the answer is, you cannot lead America to a positive tomorrow with revenge on one's mind. Revenge is so incredibly negative. And so to answer your question, I'm going to win because people sense my heart, know my sense of optimism and know where I want to lead the country. And I tease people by saying, "A leader, you can't say, follow me the world is going to be worse." I'm an optimistic person. I'm an inherently content person.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Running, Revenge

  "Bush, in his own words" by Jacob Weisberg, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2000.

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• Creativity is to discover a question that has never been asked. If one brings up an idiosyncratic question, the answer he gives will necessarily be unique as well.

  Kenya Hara

  Creativity, Unique, Giving

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