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A Canadian is someone who keeps asking the question, 'What is a Canadian? -- Irving Layton
By asking the question How can I afford it? your brain is put to work. -- Robert Kiyosaki
No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good? -- Michael Moore
Whatever sociology may be, it is the result of constantly asking the question, what is the meaning of this? -- C. Wright Mills
I think all writers write from the time they're really young, and you just start asking the question, 'What if?' -- K. A. Applegate
I wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said?. -- Shane Claiborne
If you want to understand a difficult or trying person, begin by asking the question: 'What is the wound they are trying to heal?' -- Mardy Grothe
I witnessed a lot of violence, and I found myself asking the question: Do you ever use violence to try to bring about political change? -- Mairead Corrigan
Too often, a problem is allowed to fester until it reaches a crisis point... and the American people are left asking the question: what went wrong and why? -- Darrell Issa
Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer. -- Joseph Campbell
Whenever someone asks me to define love, I usually think for a minute, then I spin around and pin the guy's arm behind his back. NOW who's asking the questions? -- Jack Handey
I think the problem with polemics is that it's general and it's lazy. When you say, "This is bad," that's a general thing. We're more interested in asking the question. -- Tony Goldwyn
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
There isn't a fight that I'm in that I'm not asking the question, 'What could we have done to avoid this?' Or, 'What can we do to avoid this in the future in terms of the kinds of things that we see?' -- Michael Mullen
I don't give advice. 90% of the time nobody takes it anyway. I will give encouragement and if asked a question as to how, or why I did certain things and if I think this will help whomever is asking the question I will do this. -- Dionne Warwick
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth? -- Carl R. Rogers
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth? -- Carl R. Rogers
Magneto has a whole lot of complexity to him. Emotionally, he's coming from a very damaged place. I like the ambivalence of it. I want the audience leaving the theater wondering, asking the questions themselves rather than being spoon-fed like a lot of these super-villain characters. -- Michael Fassbender
Peter Joseph is asking the questions and proposing the possible solutions that we should be demanding from the elected leaders of this crazy world. His brilliant analysis of this ridiculous system we're operating under is one of the most important voices for change in this generation. -- Joe Rogan
Far more often [than asking the question 'Is it true?'] they [children] have asked me: 'Was he good? Was he wicked?' That is, they were far more concerned to get the Right side and the Wrong side clear. For that is a question equally important in History and in Faerie. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Effective management always means asking the right question. -- Robert Heller
I asked the question, 'Will I ever perform again?' -- Brian Harvey
The best project is one that asks a novel question. -- Walter Gilbert
Writing is the process of asking the next logical question. -- J. Michael Straczynski
Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question. -- e. e. cummings
Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it. -- Dan Savage
We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions. -- Danny Glover
Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining. -- Sonny Liston
I don't think we've asked the right questions, the tough questions, at the right time, in Washington. -- Jorge Ramos
One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most. -- Diane Sawyer
Someone once asked me what was the weirdest question I was ever asked. And I was stymied. -- Martin Short
If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know. -- Geraldine Ferraro
Never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you. -- Robert McNamara
You question, as anybody should, the overarching worth of your profession, right? So that's a question I've often asked myself. -- Theo James
I asked Dalai Lama the most important question that I think you could ask - if he had ever seen Caddyshack. -- Jesse Ventura
Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?' -- Erwin Chargaff
I think I've been asked just about every question under the sun. I'm just really honored that people are even interested in asking me questions. -- Ken Jeong
I'm not seeing tough questions asked on American television. I'm not seeing those correspondents that would question those in power. It's like a club. We are not asking the tough questions. -- Jorge Ramos
I was the youngest child. I got to be myself and ask stupid questions because I was the youngest. It is so important to listen to the questions children have and reward them for the wondrous questions they ask. -- May-Britt Moser
That's a question mark everyone's asking -- Bruce Grobbelaar
Asking the proper question is the central act of transformation! -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
You can increase your problem-solving skills by honing your question-asking ability. -- Michael J. Gelb
If the answer is more politicians, you are asking the wrong question. -- John Major
If somebody's not prepared to answer the question, you can keep asking -- Martin Bashir
If somebody's not prepared to answer the question, you can keep asking. -- Martin Bashir
Art is really people asking the eternal question, "What is it all about?" -- Gene Roddenberry
The question we should be asking. Would I want to be sponsored by me? -- Jeff Olson
In school, we're rewarded for having the answer, not for asking a good question. -- Richard Saul Wurman
Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question. -- Albert Camus
The best way to get a better answer is to start asking a better question. -- Tony Robbins
Who am I? is the only question worth asking and the only one never answered. -- Deepak Chopra
What was life asking of me? How could I respond when I didn't know the question? -- Ruta Sepetys
Sixty-four thousand dollars for a question, I hope they are asking you the meaning of life. -- Paul Scofield
People keep asking "Jacob or Edward?" when the really important question is "Diamond Dave or Sammy? -- Ysabeau S. Wilce
You're asking me how not to doubt. Good question.My answer is, you can't. This is life -- Tariq Ramadan
It is always worth while asking a question, though it is not always worth while answering one. -- Oscar Wilde
I am a Christian and I don't think anybody asking a question about my religion is appropriate. -- Gary Goodyear
Asking what the question is, and why the question is asked, is always asking a pertinent question. -- Raymond Geuss
Very often kids don't ask questions in class because they don't want to be seen asking a question. -- Nicholas Negroponte
A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question. -- Andre Malraux
That's precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? - Why not you, why not now... -- Tim Ferriss
Maybe there's some unquenchable question that I keep asking the universe that I can't get an answer to. -- Wayne Coyne
Never asking a direct question, even though the other person can guess what it is you want to know. -- Paulo Coelho
My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime. -- Haruki Murakami
As it is, the vital question you should be asking is not what I am, but what you yourself are. -- Thomas Daniel Nehrer
There is no wrong answer. Even so, it is easy to receive wrong results, simply by asking the wrong question. -- Brunonia Barry
there is probably no such thing as an innocent question, at least not when a parent is doing the asking. -- Phyllis Grissim-Theroux
The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me? -- Tim Ferriss
One of the best skills of an entrepreneur is the ability to question. By asking new questions, new answers are found. -- Robert Kiyosaki
The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage. -- Florynce Kennedy
The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have. -- Randy Pausch
And the voice grows stronger and stronger, and it's my voice this time and it's asking a question: How does she know? -- Gayle Forman
There is no such thing as a dumb question but there is such a thing as a dumb person asking a question. -- Behdad Sami
But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else. -- E. M. Forster
Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking...asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking. -- Edward de Bono
He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish? -- William Gaddis
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question. -- Peter Drucker
The question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that question. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you. -- Ken Follett
Let's just keep asking ourselves this question: 'Is what I'm about to do strengthening the web of connections, or is it weakening it?' -- Margaret J. Wheatley
A skeptic is one who is willing to question any truth claim, asking for clarity in definition, consistency in logic, and adequacy of evidence. -- Paul Kurtz
Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt. -- Paul Tillich
I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity. -- Oscar Wilde
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
Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?' -- Henry Miller
Instead of asking, â??what do I want from life?,â? a more powerful question is, â??what does life want from me? -- Eckhart Tolle
The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering. -- David Whyte
"Stop asking "What should I do now?" That question only brings up what others expect of you. Free people don't have shoulds. They have choices." -- Steve Pavlina
It's not so much the question that offends me; it's that the people asking it don't seem to respect the moral seriousness of the question. -- Phil Klay
Here in California, one candidate for governor is a 100-year-old woman. She's going door-to-door and asking one simple question - 'Do I live here?' -- Craig Kilborn
If you are asking the wrong question, it doesn't matter how good the answer is, you aren't going to get where you want to go. -- Jim Wallis
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?' -- Russell Crowe
I keep asking myself," whispered Sabetha, giving Locke's arm a squeeze, "ARE we smarter than that woman's chicken?""At the moment, it's an open question," said Locke. -- Scott Lynch
It sounds so cheesy, but there's something very powerful about looking in the mirror and asking yourself a question. Because I think it's really hard to lie. -- Kristen Wiig
Now you know I'm a reporter, so you might as well answer my question truthfully, or I'll just keep asking it until you lose your mind. (Susan) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
If you don't let a teacher know what level you are -- by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance -- you will not learn or grow -- Stephen Covey
But what if Shakespeare"? and Hamlet"? were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be? -- Gayle Forman
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? -- Candace Cameron Bure
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? -- Candace Cameron Bure
Those of us lucky enough to have a share of privilege in the more free societies should not be asking this question, but doing something to answer it. -- Noam Chomsky
I think that most art is asking a question or is looking for something, looking for answers and that is what life seems to be about for most people. -- PJ Harvey
Some people might say, 'Can we afford it?' I think that's asking the wrong question... We should instead be asking, 'Can we really afford not to try?' -- Andrew Lo
The best results I have had in my life; the most enjoyable times, have all come from asking the simple question: 'What is the worst that could happen?' -- Tim Ferriss
The question to ask is what will satisfy you? What will bring you peace? And perhaps the answer to those is in asking yourself when you were last happy. -- Eleanor Brown
We decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn't an answer, life is the question, and you, yourself, are the answer. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
The essence of a religion can be discovered by asking its adherents one question: 'What, to your mind, was the seminal moment in the history of the world?' -- Meir Soloveichik
If you focus on near-term growth above all else, you miss the most important question you should be asking: will this business still be around a decade from now? -- Peter Thiel
All things being equal, why not be married to a rich man? (Somewhere, Hannah thinks, there must be a needlepoint pillow asking this very question in a cleverer way.) -- Curtis Sittenfeld
Don't wait for mentors to seek you out. Don't ever wait for your phone calls to be returned, your letters to be answered, your faxes to be responded to. Keep going out and asking question. -- Denis Waitley

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