Asking Quotes - Page 39

• You do not need to justify asking questions. But if you think you have found answers, you do not have the right to remain silent.

  Jacob Neusner

  Thinking, Asking Questions, Needs

  Jacob Neusner (2007). “How To Grade Your Professors: And Other Unexpected Advice”, p.11, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Those who do not stop asking silly questions become scientists.

  Leon M. Lederman

  Silly, Scientist

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• The Taliban has asked Osama bin Laden to voluntarily leave the country.They said they delivered him a note asking him to leave, which is a pretty goodtrick considering they claim they don't even know where he is.

  Jay Leno

  Country, Osama Bin Laden, They Said

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• Stop asking for directions so much. Assuming that you're in a safe environment, pay attention and figure things out for yourself. Have the nerve to take a wrong turn now and then. You'll develop better working instincts and have more self-esteem too.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Self Esteem, Safe Environment, Pay

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• You watch him playing Jack Sparrow, and he's loving it, and he's loving being in that world. He's still excited by it. Sometimes, he'll even say, 'Was that OK?' And I'm thinking, 'You're Johnny Depp man, you know that's OK!' But he doesn't. He's still going to [director] Gore [Verbinski] and asking for help. It's a privilege to see the human side of Johnny. It's really exciting.

  Keira Knightley

  Men, Thinking, Asking For Help

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• It used to be embarrassing. In the beginning, because you listen to yourself so much, you think, I must look like an asshole right now - or sound like an asshole. And then, you just get to that point where you've done so many ridiculous, ridiculous things in the booth from screaming, to having orgasms, to whatever your director is asking you to do for this character, you just lose your inhibitions.

  Rachael MacFarlane

  Character, Thinking, Sound

  Source: collider.com

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• I think one of the things about Peter Parker that is so great, and what has made him and Spider-Man last so long is he is a kid that we all feel connected to, he's not an alien, he's not a millionaire, he's just this kid that has trouble asking girls out.

  Marc Webb

  Girl, Kids, Men

  Source: collider.com

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• Good manners, Madam, are had these days not
  For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be's.
  The day is a loud grenade that bursts a smile
  Of serious weeds in a comic lily plot.

  Allen Tate

  Weed, Good Man, Plot

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.204, Macmillan

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• You can't learn the truth about a man's intentions by asking him.

  Marcel Proust

  Men, Intention

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• Don't make your audience play Jeopardy. Giving your answer before asking the question puts your audience at a disadvantage. It will also reveal your biases. Make it clear what question you are trying to answer first. Then allow your audience to engage in answering the question too.

  John Fairclough

  Play, Giving, Trying

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• Instead of asking what it feels like to follow God or be used by God, we should be asking who God is, and whether we really know Him. Everything else will take care of itself.

  Donald Miller

  Care, Who God Is, Used

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• U.N. weapons inspectors found empty chemical warheads in Iraq. So, the question everyone is asking now is how did Sean Penn miss this?

  Jay Leno

  Iraq, Missing, Weapons

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• Fatherhood is asking your son to make up a name rather than tell anybody who he is.

  Bill Cosby

  Son, Names, Fatherhood

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• The rebel army in Libya is just like 1,000 guys in Toyota trucks. The world is asking the question; can 1000 anti-government guys in pick-up trucks with small arms, take over a country of millions? To which I say, ask the Teabaggers.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Army, Government

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• That's like asking you to pick your favorite child... I do however, think Bird on a Wire was one of my finest works. Oscar caliber.

  Mel Gibson

  Children, Thinking, Bird

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• Do you have any Greek in you? That was just a tactful way of asking if you're pregnant. If you're not, then let's break up.

  Demetri Martin

  Greek, Way, Break

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• Because I've always aspired to direct and produce, I've literally worked with about 200 directors and countless producers, so what I appreciate is how, through osmosis and through actually asking questions and through people offering wisdom, there's a lot in there.

  Malik Yoba

  Asking Questions, Offering, Osmosis

  Source: collider.com

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• Nowadays, especially in big commercial films it's much easier for the audience, and they tend to get spoonfed. It's much more interesting to me, people leave the theater and they start asking themselves questions and find their own moral compass about what these characters have been doing.

  Michael Fassbender

  Character, People, Interesting

  "January Jones, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Kevin Bacon, Zoë Kravitz, Rose Byrne & Lucas Till Talk X-MEN: FIRST CLASS". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. June 1, 2011.

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• The different colors [of water] again refer to the fact that those little jacks, if you want to call them jacks, those little pyramids, can be packed together in all different ways. And depending on how they're packed together.If you Google blue ice, as I did just while your caller was asking his question, you see some beautiful pictures of ice covering a lake.

  Ira Flatow

  Beautiful, Lakes, Blue

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Every prayer is an agreement with yourself. The mind is asking the real you, which is life, to guide your decisions for every single choice that you make.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Prayer, Real, Agreement

  Source: www.awaken.com

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• Money solves a lot of problems and when you don't have money, you've got to do all this other stuff to solve the problem. It's very hard. I would love to have not necessarily a studio because then you lose so much control but I would love to have decent independent financing where I have the freedom and I have the money to do it right, to not be asking people to work for free or to work for half the rate and not ask those favors again and again because I now owe all these people back who've helped me.

  Julie Davis

  Independent, People, Half

  Source: collider.com

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• I began asking, 'How can we know Christianity is true?' Sadly, none of the adults in my life offered an answer. Eventually I decided Christianity must not have any answers, and I became an agnostic.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Adults, Answers, Agnostic

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• When we encounter the world of ideas for the first time, we easily get overwhelmed. Scripture is telling us, 'Don't be distracted by the details. Cut to the core by asking, What is its idol?' Whatever functions as its God substitute will shape everything else.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Cutting, Idols, Ideas

  "Finding Truth". Interview with Jonathan Petersen, www.biblegateway.com. December 10, 2015.

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• I think my strength in teaching and what I get a lot of good feedback on is going towards the students and asking them what they are about. It's about putting your own personality into the work.

  Vaughan Oliver

  Teaching, Thinking, Personality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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