That's a hard question, because I started skating when I was three, so I don't really remember life before it, and I don't know what it is like not to work hard at something.
~By Julie Benz ~
I just turned 30 so I got really introspective as you do, questioning my life. And when I stopped and sort of looked back at the past decade, I realized I had done more work than I thought I had done.
~By Sheryl Lee ~
I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me about something, I wasn't about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy.
~By Oliver North ~
Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.
~By Doug Coupland ~
As to the question of elected or not elected, each member of the European Commission has been appointed jointly by the governments of the 15 member states, and undergone individual scrutiny and a vote of confidence from the European Parliament.
~By Mario Monti ~
The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
~By Indira Gandhi ~
First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.
~By Jeanette Winterson ~
There is no question that al-Qaida operatives are currently active in Iraq. A premature exit before the threat they represent has been dealt with would endanger America and the prospects of eventual peace in the Middle East.
~By Robert Foster Bennett ~
Bush is a very poor impromptu speaker. He does fine in small groups but when speaking without a script in front of large groups or answering questions he wasn't prepped for, he has problems.
~By Peter Schuyler ~
Unquestionably, the world is better off without Saddam.
~By Adam Schiff ~
It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.
~By Goldie Hawn ~
I do not question the power of our weapons and the efficiency of our logistics; I cannot say these things delight me as the y seem to delight some of our officials, but they are certainly impressive.
~By J. William Fulbright ~
These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.
~By Jacques Derrida ~
I question myself every day. That's what I still find motivating about this. I don't have the answers, I don't pretend that I do just because I won the match. Just keep fighting and maybe something good happens.
~By Andre Agassi ~
The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since it started as a 100% American production. The film was not in French and yet was French in style, reflecting my personality.
~By Jean-Jacques Annaud ~
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
~By W. H. Auden ~
I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.
~By Marie Curie ~
The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?
~By Alva Noto ~
Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question.
~By Peter Straub ~
What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.
~By Max Beckmann ~
Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century.
~By Mickey Mantle ~
We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?
~By Nick Hornby ~
There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.
~By Leon Kass ~
If you take away money, if you take away the houses and things, who are we really? What is love really about? What is it to love each other? Why do we stay together, and why do all the kids split? All these questions I have really deep inside of me.
~By Sonia Braga ~
As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic.
~By Jonathan Coe ~
For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?
~By Richard Courant ~
It's hard for me to talk about Dom right now because I am Dom right now. So it's a really strange exercise to try to reflect on something that I am at the moment. But I guarantee you that when I'm done with the movie and you ask me that question, I'll be able to give you something insightful.
~By Vin Diesel ~
The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres.
~By Peter Hammill ~
Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.
~By Felix Frankfurter ~
Questions have arisen about the policing of science. Who is responsible for the policing? My answer is: all of us.
~By Serge Lang ~
I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.
~By Marilyn Hacker ~
With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from that of textual autonomy to textual reception - to the issue of what we actually look for or find in reading a poem.
~By Thomas Harrison ~
Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.
~By Norman Mailer ~
I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.
~By Andy Warhol ~
It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance.
~By Ruth St. Denis ~
I definitely have come out of my shell a lot more. When you question who you are, you can't be proud of who you are. Now that I'm trying to peel off those layers and really understand who I am, I don't have anything to be shy about.
~By Ricky Williams ~
Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark.
~By Anthony Trollope ~
No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?
~By Bertrand Russell ~
You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.
~By Bono ~
During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected.
~By Everett Dirksen ~
I don't know what I have said. I have answered so many questions and I am so confused I don't know one thing from another. I am telling you just as nearly as I know.
~By Lizzie Andrew Borden ~
When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, "I can't."
~By Oswald Chambers ~
The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.
~By Florynce R. Kennedy ~
To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing.
~By Martin Mull ~
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: one is roots, the other is wings.
~By Hodding Carter ~
Michael was a rare breed. There's no question about that. He did things that a lot of players could never do, and still to this day players can't do those things, so the honors that he's had are definitely deserved.
~By Dominique Wilkins ~
It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.
~By Gustav Mahler ~
It's also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I'm not the only actress out there, and good parts just don't fall into your lap that easily. But I like most of the films I've made recently and so I'm pretty positive about the future.
~By Winona Ryder ~
There's no question that Roberts will vote like William Rehnquist... If he swings, it will be from right to far right.
~By Jonathan Turley ~
How do I explain Neil Young? Great question! I explain Neil Young as, I would kill to see his acoustic shows.
~By Bob Mould ~
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
~By Norman Cousins ~
My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.
~By Maya Lin ~
That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.
~By Anthony Eden ~
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.
~By Michael Fassbender ~
Bobby and I went through some old questionnaires about customer requirements for languages, then we compiled a new one and sent it out to a few dozen people we knew.
~By James Frank ~
Question everything.
~By Maria Mitchell ~
Who is Mike Judge? Let me think. The only way I could possibly answer that question would be in a nonverbal fashion. I think I could do an interpretive dance that would answer that question for you.
~By Mike Judge ~
The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.
~By Ignatius Loyola ~
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
~By Francis Bacon ~
I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.
~By Jim Lehrer ~
Thus, the questions we should ask here are what makes the current economic upswing different from the past two recoveries, and whether such differences are sufficient for the economy to reach the sustained growth path.
~By Toshihiko Fukui ~
Black people don't even question things any more, they simply follow the lead.
~By Tim Reid ~
By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
~By Walter Gilbert ~
There are only two sides to this question. Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and traitors.
~By Stephen Douglas ~
No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
It's a good question, because to be believable is the only way that you could be successful.
~By Tanya Tucker ~
Judgment of the people in the situation is not helpful. How can you help them is the question.
~By Russell Simmons ~
The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
~By John D. Rockefeller ~
When you're a father, you know exactly where your heart really is. There's no question of it, no doubt. That part of your life has no second guessing.
~By Fred Ward ~
I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession.
~By Simone Signoret ~
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
~By Charlie Chaplin ~
I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.
~By Lamar Hunt ~
The question I always get is, Why didn't you throw Dr. Smith off the Jupiter? I get that all the time.
~By Mark Goddard ~
I believe that it is a whole lifetime of work on Shakespeare's part that enabled him to do what he did. But the question is how you can explain this whole lifetime in such a way to make it accessible and available to us, to me.
~By Stephen Greenblatt ~
There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.
~By Galen Rowell ~
You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question.
~By Garth Ennis ~
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.
~By Anne Wilson Schaef ~
Once we get them in the studio, you interview a person the same way you would interview another. You ask them a question. You let them answer. You try to listen closely and then ask a follow-up.
~By Bob Schieffer ~
The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China.
~By Chen Ning Yang ~
That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
~By Jacob Bronowski ~
The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.
~By Albert J. Nock ~
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions.
~By Pete Seeger ~
I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can't take a step without being questioned and surrounded.
~By Brigitte Bardot ~
But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty.
~By Eugenio Montale ~
I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.
~By Mark Haddon ~
If somebody's not prepared to answer the question, you can keep asking.
~By Martin Bashir ~
If you are Iraqi, you know who I am... and you know that I do not tire. I am the president of Iraq and I refuse to answer these questions because this court is illegitimate.
~By Saddam Hussein ~
For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.
~By Wilfrid Laurier ~
Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.
~By Vanessa Redgrave ~
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?
~By Jim Rohn ~
The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
~By Alfred Adler ~
The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.
~By Remy de Gourmont ~
The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty. Darwin's theory, though unquestionably materialist in its main features, is not free from some serious errors.
~By Trofim Lysenko ~
How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.
~By Allen Tate ~
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