Quotes by category:Good Questions

Responding to the question "If Mr. Stalin dies, what will be the effect on international affairs?" That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.

Anthony Eden

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That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?

Arthur Miller

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If the show encourages an audience to ask the question, "Is this character's emotional response to this situation valid?," then that's a really good question to ask.

Charlie Cox

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I listen to all these complaints about rudeness and intemperateness, and the opinion that I come to is that there is no polite way of asking somebody: have you considered the possibility that your entire life has been devoted to a delusion? But that’s a good question to ask. Of course we should ask that question and of course it’s going to offend people. Tough.

Daniel Dennett

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If there is such a simple argument for physicalism, how come everybody hasn't always been a physicalist? That's a good question, and there is a good answer. The 'causal completeness of physics' wasn't widely accepted until recently.

David Papineau

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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

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Asking good questions is half of learning.

Elijah Muhammad

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It's a very good question, very direct, and I'm not going to answer it.

George H. W. Bush

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My job is not to produce answers. My job is to produce good questions.

Glenn Ligon

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That," said Harry, "is a really good question.

J. K. Rowling

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My name is Daniel, and this is the first volume of my life story, which, hopefully, will be a very long and distinguished one. Who should you read it? Very good question. Maybe because this is your planet, and you have a right to know what's actually happening on it.

James Patterson

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I got my Backstage Bistro Award, I should just retire. You know, that's a good question and I guess it's really really different for everybody.

Jason Graae

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Good question to ask yourself: How would the person I would like to be do what I'm about to do?

Jim Cathcart

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A good question has many answers.

John Paul Caponigro

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Where did the world come from? The question has an answer, even though I cannot get to it. It is a good question. It is like a crime that has not been solved. There is an answer, even if police do not know it.

Jostein Gaarder

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It is a really good question. The other day I was praying over something as I was running, and I ended up saying to God, ‘Look, this is all very well, but isn’t it about time you did something, if you’re there?’ Which is probably not what the archbishop of Canterbury should say.

Justin Welby

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I know what a good question would be for an actor. What's your least favorite thing that you've ever heard an actor say about acting? Or about being in a movie?

Kathleen Hanna

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Good questions inform, great questions transform

Ken Coleman

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Only good questions deserve good answers.

Oscar Wilde

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That's a good question. Let me try to evade you.

Paul Tsongas

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