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• I believe we came from nowhere. We show up, and we are now here. It's all the same. It just is a question of spacing. While we are in the "now here," we all contemplate where we are going. Where we are going is back to the "nowhere." We are going to rejoin the spirit from which all things emanate. These are the big questions for me - always.

  Wayne Dyer

  Believe, Spirit, Bigs

  "Wayne Dyer Interview: On God and goodness, inspiration and presence". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. September 5, 2015.

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• Their [American banks] big issue will be if they want to deal with the biggest companies, which are doing a lot of business overseas. How they do that is a big question. It's almost impossible to build a global investment bank from scratch. If they want to do that, they probably will have to do an acquisition.

  Jamie Dimon

  Issues, Scratches, Acquisition

  Source: www.bloomberg.com

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• I thought, you know, I would probably not have seen that. On the other hand, he's obviously completely telling the truth. So, then what is that? That's - I wanted to explore that. And then I wanted to talk about how ideas are born. And the big question that the book asks in a number of ways about a number of things is that. How does a new idea come into the world?

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Ideas, Numbers

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• I started asking the big questions that I had asked in college, that my compatriots the Greek philosophers had asked, like 'what is a good life?' Socrates famously said that 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' I started asking these questions from the starting point of 'what is success?'

  Arianna Huffington

  Good Life, College, Greek

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• Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract.

  Nicolas Cage

  Intelligent, Roots, People

  "Nicolas Cage Interview - KNOWING". Press conference, collider.com. March 18, 2009.

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• I think there is a big question in how much music a film needs - a lot of films are overloaded for my taste, so that the story can't carry its own weight.

  Volker Bertelmann

  Thinking, Needs, Stories

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The big question isn't whether you have problems; the all-important factor is your attitude toward problems. How you think of the problem is more important than the problem itself.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Attitude, Thinking, Important

  Norman Vincent Peale (1977). “The joy of living: inspiring and practical writings ...”, Hallmark Cards

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• I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Home, Thinking, Giving

  "High Honors For Actress Deavere Smith". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. February 25, 2013.

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• In some ways I'm a frustrated scientist or mathematician. The amount of times I've thought I'd go back to university and do theoretical physics because I like the big questions, but really I know now that that's not quite me. What's me is to do it in novels.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Theoretical Physics, Frustrated, Way

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• I see that I have been engaged to Emily [Blunt] without ever asking her. The big question I had was, do you think I would ask her to marry me through 'Hello' magazine? Would I do something like that? Would she allow that to happen? It is completely ridiculous.

  Michael Buble

  Thinking, Asking, Magazines

  "Patiences pays off for Michael Buble". Interview with the Associated Press, www.nbcnews.com. May 25, 2007.

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• I believe that young people are looking for answers to the big questions just like everyone else, and that they respect intelligent comment to help guide them through tough times.

  Bill Kurtis

  Believe, Intelligent, People

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• The big question is: When will the term structure of interest rates change? That's the question to be worried about.

  Ray Dalio

  Worried, Structure, Bigs

  "RAY DALIO: The US Economy Is Facing A Rare Set Of Circumstances That Will Be Bad For Markets". www.businessinsider.com. December 12, 2012.

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• It's the big question of every TV show, right, where you have these two people who it's clear the world wants to put them together and everyone wants to see them together, but also when you're telling these stories you can't throw these people together immediately.

  Patrick J. Adams

  Tv Shows, Two, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We can choose this moment of crisis to ask and answer the big questions of society's evolution — like, what do we want to be when we grow up?

  Paul Gilding

  Growing Up, Answers, Want

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• We are shaped by stories from the first moments of life, and even before. Stories tell us who we are, why we are here, and what will become of us. Whenever humans try to make sense of their experience, they create a story, and we use those stories to answer all the big questions of life. The stories come from everywhere--from family, church, school, and the culture at large. They so surround and inhabit us that we often don't recognize that they are stories at all, breathing them in and out as a fish breathes water.

  Daniel Taylor

  School, Breathing, Water

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• This is, in theory, still a free country, but our politically correct, censorious times are such that many of us tremble to give vent to perfectly acceptable views for fear of condemnation. Freedom of speech is thereby imperiled, big questions go undebated, and great lies become accepted, unequivocally as great truths.

  Simon Heffer

  Country, Freedom, Lying

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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

  Science, Growth, Age

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• All of my life, I have been fascinated by the big questions that face us, and have tried to find scientific answers to them. If, like me, you have looked at the stars, and tried to make sense of what you see, you too have started to wonder what makes the universe exist.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stars, Science, Answers

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• Two big questions that people ask me are: if we make these robots more and more human-like, will we accept them - will they need rights eventually? And the other question people ask me is, will they want to take over?

  Rodney Brooks

  Motivation, Inspiration, Technology

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• It's a big question. Where do you begin to change the world?

  Neal Shusterman

  World, Bigs, Unwholly

  Neal Shusterman (2013). “UnWholly”, p.392, Simon and Schuster

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• The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.206, Anchor

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• Art is a big question mark.

  Marilyn Manson

  Art, Bigs, Mark

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• At teenage parties he was always wandering into the garden, sitting on a bench in the dark . . . staring up at the constellations and pondering all those big questions about the existence of God and the nature of evil and the mystery of death, questions which seemed more important than anything else in the would until a few years passed and some real questions had been dumped into your lap, like how to earn a living, and why people fell in and out of love, and how long you could carry on smoking and then give up without getting lung cancer.

  Mark Haddon

  Love, Teenage, Giving Up

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• Losing It Some days I think I'm losing my mind. What seems so clear most of the time becomes a big question mark. Am I really the way I percieve myself, or is the person others see the truth of me? I wait for answers, but inside I know I have to go out and find them. And answers like knowledge, are not always where we first look for them.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Thinking, Waiting, Mind

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• For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stonewritten. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

  Charles Bukowski

  Atheist, Educational, War

  "The Meaning of Life: The Big Picture". Life Magazine, December 1988.

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