Questioning Quotes - Page 15

• Winnowing is more like a trip to the confessional...transparent & vulnerable without being sentimental. These songs have elements that are more like prayers & pleas for faith. They're questionings and wrangling in the dark about the journey.

  Bill Mallonee

  Song, Prayer, Dark

  "Out of the High Deserts: An Interview with Critically Acclaimed Songwriter, Bill Mallonee". Interview with Matt Litton, mattlitton.com.

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• When I first came into acting, I had great opportunities to make a decent movie. I had a run there in 2005, '06, '07 - for a long time it was "Oh, he's the best thing in the movie that's not that good." I started questioning: Did I make the right choice? Should I have stayed in wrestling a bit longer? And then budgets became lower and lower and the pay kinda stayed the same and there wasn't a lot of growth.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Running, Wrestling, Opportunity

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I think a lot of the questions - questioning reality and the self and the desire to change, to me are always at the heart of life. No matter how old you are, to me life is always about changing and growing and discovering and that's not always easy.

  Nicole Krauss

  Heart, Reality, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My rule is always if you keep your basics classic. You can add seasonable and very trendy stuff and always look modern and updated, but if you're questioning something and its expensive, err on the side of classic.

  Melissa Rivers

  Sides, Add, Looks

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• There are so many people who have a training in art history; and if you've spent time looking at old art, you become attuned to what art does through materiality and so you begin to look to that in contemporary art as well. And anyway, I do think that matching one's experience with what you're looking at and questioning what you're looking inevitably involves materiality, just like it involves the sense of place.

  Laura Belem

  Art, Thinking, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• When you're no longer seeing yourself, in some ways. You're as close to being as you can be.I suppose that's consistent with the moment that the mind actually turns off, and is no longer questioning what you're doing. When the questions stop, that's when the real acting takes over. And trying to get to the point where the questions stop, "Would I do this? How do I feel about that as a character?" When those stop, and it's just doing X, Y, and zed, because that's what you'd do as this character, because you're inside this character somehow - that's when it really kicks off.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Real, Character, Mind

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I'd describe my inner life as constantly vigilant, always ready to flee or respond with violence. I've felt this way since I was a small child. Although it's often quite amusing, it's exhausting at times to live with myself, and when I'm tired and overwhelmed, I do become very depressed. If I'm unable to work for too long, I start questioning my purpose on this earth and whether or not I deserve to live. When I look at other people, I get the sense that they live with themselves much more gracefully.

  Phoebe Gloeckner

  Children, Tired, Long

  "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

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• Leonardo da Vinci did not take received wisdom - whether from ancient classical thinkers or medieval scholars or from the Bible - without questioning it. And this was the beginning of the scientific method. This is another lesson for our time: that when we have evidence that contradicts a certain belief, we should be willing to change it. I think this made Leonardo, in some ways, a person who better understood the beauty of God's creation than a person who just takes all received wisdom from the Bible on faith.

  Walter Isaacson

  Thinking, Belief, Ancient

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• You must set up measurement of results and celebrate small victories as you go along. I have observed that any creativity initiative gets about an eighteen-month grace period. If there aren't any tangible results in a year and a half, despite the strongest commitment, someone in the organization is going to start questioning the whole program.

  Michael Ray

  Creativity, Commitment, Grace

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The reason you go to university is to be taught, is to learn how to think more clearly, to call into question the ideas that you came with and think about whether or not they are the ideas you will always want to hold. A university education at its best is a time of confusion and questioning, a time to learn how to think clearly about the values and principles that guide one's life. Of course, it's also a time to acquire the skills needed for jobs in the "real world," but the part about becoming an adult with ideals and integrity is also important.

  Joan Wallach Scott

  Real, Integrity, Thinking

  Source: www.salon.com

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• To a certain extent all philosophers have been involved in a systematic questioning that undermines confidence and certainty. Philosophy as a whole unleashed skeptical forces which, outside of the tightly controlled environment of a rigorous philosophical debate, led a lot of people to throw their hands up in despair and think 'what's the point?'. A lot of the public perception of philosophy is that it leaves you with no answers, and more confused than you were at the beginning.

  Julian Baggini

  Philosophy, Confused, Philosophical

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The very act of questioning whether you exist proves you do, because you must be there for the doubt to be entertained in the first place.

  Julian Baggini

  Doubt, Firsts, Prove

  "Ideas for modern living: you" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2011.

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• Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

  Henry Rollins

  Rocks, Anything And Everything, Punk

  "What is Punk?" by Henry Rollins, bigthink.com. 2017.

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• "I spent two hours trying to question reapers without sounding like I was questioning them. What do you think it says about us as a group, that every reaper I know is either irritable, egotistical, voyeuristic, or some combination of the three?" "That you fit in well?"

  Rachel Vincent

  Thinking, Two, Trying

  "Before I Wake". Book by Rachel Vincent, June 26, 2012.

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• Curiosity about the world and questioning of the status quo to open minds to alternative visions of the future are essential leadership skills. And they can be learned.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Visions Of The Future, Skills, Curiosity

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• That one never asks a question unless he knows the answer is basic to parliamentary questioning.

  John Diefenbaker

  Answers, Knows, Parliamentary

  John George Diefenbaker (1982). “The Wit & Wisdom of John Diefenbaker”, Hurtig Trade

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• A sound American is simply one who has put out of his mind all doubts and questionings, and who accepts instantly, and as incontrovertible gospel, the whole body of official doctrine of his day, whatever it may be and no matter how often it may change. The instant he challenges it, no matter how timorously and academically, he ceases by that much to be a loyal and creditable citizen of the republic.

  H. L. Mencken

  Change, Loyalty, Time

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.316, Vintage

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• As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.

  Niall Ferguson

  Teacher, Strategy, Professors

  "Niall Ferguson: 'The left love being provoked by me ... they think I'm a reactionary imperialist scumbag" By Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2011.

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• When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you?

  Jim Bakker

  Firsts, Prison

  "The Best of Interviews With Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Messner". “CNN Larry King Weekend”, www.cnn.com. June 24, 2001.

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• I spent a lot of time with a real detective, a lady detective inspector who was the only female detective inspector in the whole of East London. She and I hung out a lot. She showed me what she did and I spent time with her. So, [she was] a lot of the inspiration for the way I dressed and sometimes the dialogue in those interview scenes where we're cross examining and questioning the youths and trying to get a confession out of them.

  Emily Mortimer

  Real, Inspiration, East London

  Source: collider.com

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• I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning.

  Richard Dawkins

  People, Childhood, Magic

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• I'm newly widowed, so I've gone from having a life partner, and having another brain to make decisions with, to doing it all on my own and questioning what I'm doing. I have to be a calmer person, because my anger can look pretty terrifying to a young person.

  Adina Porter

  Decision, Brain, Looks

  "True Blood Actress Adina Porter: On Grief, Dedication, and Balance". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If Donald Trump had said something like I'm going to raise taxes on the middle class, it would be all over the news. You would be questioning his sanity.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Class, Would Be, News

  "'This Week' Transcript: Rudy Giuliani and Michael Morell". abcnews.go.com. August 7, 2016.

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• Hillary Clinton really transformed herself into a national security expert. She decided to join the Senate Armed Services Committee, and she became a real military wonk. She was famous for going to every subcommittee hearing and methodically questioning every lieutenant colonel from the Pentagon about defense procurement or selective service benefits. So that's where she really began to carve out and hone this reputation as a hawk that I think has followed her through the secretary of state years and then into the presidential campaign.

  Michael Tomasky

  Real, Military, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My assessment of Julian Assange is a professional one, really, of what he's managed to achieve, and the idea that he came up with, which set the world alight and continues to inspire others like Snowden [NSA leaker Edward Snowden], about the secret goings-on that are done in our name with our tax dollars on behalf of big business or politics. He launched the revolutionary idea that citizens can start to claim back a paradigm for questioning power structures and those in authority through an anonymous, whistle-blowing website.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Assessment, Nsa, Names

  "The Cumberbatch Kid Comes of Age and is All the Rage". Interview with Kam Williams, pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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