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My wife asked me once if I weren't a comedian what I would do. I couldn't answer the question. I never imagined doing anything else.
In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?
Having to stake out your identity and have people question whether or not you're being yourself was a tension that I could relate to.
Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology.
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.
If gaming were seen as an art, the important question would be not whether games are good for us but whether they are good, full stop.
There are two answers to every question - God's answer and everybody else's - and everybody else is wrong when they disagree with him.
It is possible to be different and still be all right. There can be two - or more - answers to the same question, and all can be right.
I lived in constant terror of being asked a question in class. Even if I knew the answer, I was never able to tell it before the class.
There should be no doubt about my commitment to responding to questions from reporters in the same language that the question is asked.
It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it.
We're a nation of immigrants - there's no question about that. But we're also a nation of laws. I think we have to honor both of those.
The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.
I learned to question everything you read. Don't take anything at face value. Don't care what other people say. I liked that philosophy.
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? That's the question that changed my life forever.
Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.
The one thing about art is you can't question it. Everyone is looking at everyone else to find out what's cool. No one knows what's cool.
If - when someone asks me a question, if I could just focus on not joking, I think that would be great, because for some reason, I can't.
I think the weirdest question I've ever gotten was, 'If people had wheels and could fly, how would we differentiate them from airplanes?'
Everybody eats three times a day; it's only a question of where they choose to eat. The longer-term trends are people eat out more often.
It's a very terrible thing to be Maria Callas, because it's a question of trying to understand something you can never really understand.
The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
We'd all like to be certain of what we know, but I think the most important question is to ask yourself do you really know what you know?
Parenting is more than a numbers game: it's a question of whether people are equipped for the toughest job they will ever be asked to do.
When I have used cartoon images, I've used them ironically to raise the question, 'Why would anyone want to do this with modern painting?'
Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently.
Whenever something's really hard, you always question yourself, and I had many times when I questioned myself, but I always rose above it.
When this coronavirus crisis is over, what kind of society will we be? A more important question is what kind of society do we want to be?
I have the gift of laughter. I can make people laugh at will. In good times and in bad. And that I don't question. It was a gift from God.
My dad is 20 years older than my mom. Growing up, I felt like he knew everything. I felt like, for every question I had, he had an answer.
The question is: Where would it get you if something that's a little bit ambiguous in the movie is made clear? It doesn't get you anywhere.
I really have learned to live in the moment. I don't question things too much or try to project into the future. That's how life should be.
One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.
A lot of people like to ask me, 'Ali, how on earth do you balance family and career?' Men never get asked that question. Because they don't.
Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.
If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.
The question for politicians here is fundamental: You can read the polls, or you can change the polls. Stand up on the things you believe in.
Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
I like chatting with people. If people ask me a direct question, I give them a direct answer and I feel I've always done that with the press.
I want to be a better player, and there is no other way of showing it other than on the pitch. It is not a question of which team I play for.
I went to Walter Reed hospital a couple of times to visit wounded soldiers, kids with no legs and one arm. You start to question some things.
Here's the question for my fellow Republicans: Do we want to be the first-ever GOP House majority to raise federal marginal income tax rates?
There is a very serious fiscal-policy question of, 'Are we running our overall fiscal policy such that we as a government can pay our bills?'
Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?
People say, 'Surely there's the right reasons for going to war?' And my perspective is, 'Surely there's a better way of asking that question?'
The question the electorate asks is: 'What can you do for us? Are you just using us to defeat somebody because you have a personal grievance?'
I question the political judgement of those who would have the nerve to paint Christ white with his obvious African nose, lips and wooly hair.