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We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions. -- Danny Glover
We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes. -- J. Irwin Miller
Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides. -- Gwen Ifill
Privacy is tremendously important. I believe the American people, and all people, should be skeptical of government power, should ask hard questions: What is the authority? What is the oversight? That's the way it ought to be. -- James Comey
Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology. -- Vinod Khosla
Pat Roberts and I both feel very strongly that when we get to Iran, that we can't make the same mistakes. We have to ask the questions, the hard questions before, not afterwards, and get the right intelligence. -- Jay Rockefeller
That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they're relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me. -- Daniel Okrent
The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and are all places within that extent equally full of matter? Do atoms exist or is matter infinitely divisible? -- James Clerk Maxwell
Advocacy groups and voters are not wrong to push candidates to declare their position clearly on policy issues. That is good citizenship. Hard questions should be asked of every candidate, every politician. And those public servants should be prepared to answer, but in their own words. -- Mark McKinnon
I think everyone has their own style in journalism. Look, I'm a girl from the South! Sometimes I laugh. Someone can pejoratively call it giggling. But if you look at the body of my work, I ask lots of hard questions and break a lot of hard news. -- Sarah Lacy
For me, law school was a time of joy and hope. Joy in learning my way around the law - learning how to orbit a problem and to ask myself hard questions and to be asked hard questions. Hope that I could be of some use, to be part of the greater good - to make the world a little bit better. -- James Comey
Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions. -- Stephen Covey
It's hard to keep on being civil when they ask you such annoying questions. -- Olivia De Havilland
It's very hard for a man to ask questions about sex. The smart ones do. -- Betty Dodson
We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions -- Danny Glover
Rachel: They asked me a lot of questions about you. I played dumb. Annabeth: Was it hard? -- Rick Riordan
Black power is organizing the rage of Black people and putting new hard questions and demands to white America. -- Charles Hamilton Houston
Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress. -- Alan Hirsch
In poetry, I didn't have to provide resolution. I could ask hard questions without feeling responsible for the answers. -- Vivek Shraya
Questions for the lord, why he don't like me, guard my soul, Though my life was hard with no remorse. -- Tupac Shakur
I always think the novelist should go to the culture's dark places and poke around. Pose a lot of hard questions. -- Dana Spiotta
My challenge is, do not run away from the hard questions. Truly ask yourself what's worth living for in this life. -- Jon Foreman
You can't find the answers on the bottom of a whiskey glass, but if you look hard enough you'll forget the questions. -- George Patterson
I do not know the answers to life's hard questions, but I do know the One who knows them and that's sufficient...for now. -- Toni Sorenson
Whether something 'has color' or not is as hard to define verbally as are such questions as, 'What is music?' or 'What is musical? -- Josef Albers
The difference between a serial killer and a saint is environment. That's a very hard thing to accept because that raises a lot of questions -- Jacque Fresco
Questions [about our healthcare system] are not hard because the answers are complicated, they are hard because they require that we be honest with ourselves. -- Rebecca Onie
Be not frightened at the hard words "imposition," "imposture;" give and ask no questions. Cast thy bread upon the waters. Some have, unawares, entertained angels. -- Charles Lamb
She glared at him. "Why are you forever asking hard questions?" He smiled. "Sooner or later you'll have to be able to answer one." Daja shoved him, grinning. -- Tamora Pierce
When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people. -- Kiana Tom
Love is the answer At least for most of the questions in my heart Why are we here and where do we go And how come it's so hard -- Jack Johnson
There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination. -- Eddie Marsan
Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to what? (2) At what cost? and (3) What are the hard facts?. -- Thomas Sowell
The consequences for human welfare involved in questions about human capital spillovers are simply staggering. Once one starts to think about them, it's hard to think of anything else -- Robert Lucas, Jr.
I know few significant questions of public policy which can safely be confided to computers. In the end, the hard decisions inescapably involve imponderables of intuition, prudence, and judgment. -- John F. Kennedy
I did not know that children think the hard questions they ask are easy and thus expect easy answers to them, and that they are disappointed when they get cautious, complex answers. -- Bernhard Schlink

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