It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
Is Tony Blair of the Labour party? The answer to that is profoundly ‘yes’, but that is not how, sentimentally, he is regarded in the Labour movement generally.
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
I was in the Woodrow Wilson School of international relations and public policy at Princeton. You have to apply to get in, and I did not originally get in. I lobbied really hard and called many people. I just would not take no for an answer.
And indeed, last week, the FBI executed a search warrant on my residence. This happened one day after my attorneys had left a message on the lead FBI investigator’s voice mail confirming my continued readiness to answer questions and otherwise cooperate.
And she could never give me an answer. And I realized that, you know, I had a problem on my hands.
If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society.
If you ask almost any of them, ‘Do you stand behind your theory? Is this the answer?’ I think almost everyone would say, ‘No, no, no. I’m just trying to expand the range of possibilities.’ We really don’t know what’s going on.
If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it’s quite abundantly clear that there’s not going to be a final answer and there won’t be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!
I believe, as human beings, we sometimes indulge in self pity more than it’s necessary. Over my life’s journey, I have realised that overthinking about your problems and indulging in self-pity is not the answer to get through tough times.
Tourette’s has always been a tough one for many to digest because of its seeming irrationality: ‘Why do you have to twitch or make noises? You seem normal, with no physical defects.’ It’s next to impossible to answer without living it.
But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.
The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.
A wise man’s question contains half the answer.
I don’t like people lying to me. I don’t like people who don’t return my calls. I don’t like people who won’t give me a straight answer. I don’t like those kinds of people, and I’ve been vocal about it.
We are caught in the contradiction of finding life a rather perplexing puzzle which causes us a lot of misery, and at the same time being dimly aware of the boundless, limitless nature of life. So we begin looking for an answer to the puzzle.
We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.
If the response you finally receive from me is ‘thanks but no thanks’, then please accept at face value that I would really not be the right investor for you. You’ve got to trust me on this, and in this case take ‘no’ for an answer.
I don’t know that I can give a definitive answer to that, I can only say that if we create the right climate those who are producing those products will have the opportunity to move into a higher value product if changes are needed if we get this right.
Whenever a liberal begins a statement with ‘I don’t know which is more frightening’, you know the answer is going to be pretty clear.
Good directors don’t answer questions with their work. They generate debate and create discussion.
When people ask me what my motivation is, I have a simple answer: money.
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.
The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.
A question is a pursuit, an invitation to envision and explore a series of possibilities, to struggle and empathize and doubt and believe. The question moves, whereas our sense of what an answer is can often be static, a stopping point.
It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.
Bill Gates is a very rich man today… and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
Looking back over the years, I realize the Bible isn’t magic, but it is corrective; it isn’t an answer book, it is a living book; it isn’t a fix-it book, it is relationship book. When I confront God’s word, I am confronted; when I read God’s word, it reads me; when I seek God’s presence, He seeks me.
For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future.
And today more than ever, knowing about that society involves first of all choosing what approach the inquiry will take, and that necessarily means choosing how society can answer.
I think, a lot of times, players get in trouble when they’re asked questions and they think they have to find a way to answer it. If you ask me a question and I say, ‘I don’t know,’ there’s really no follow-up.
The greatest compliment I get about my writing is when people say, ‘How did you know so much about me?’ And of course, the answer is very simple: ‘I just observed myself without sentimentality.’
Reality shows have a lot to answer for. They applaud mediocrity.
Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That doesn’t mean the police in London is not independent and does not exercise powers. Ultimately it is the political executive that has to answer.
I don’t get asked this much – ‘Would you ever wanna see your father again?’ And the answer there is that I would like to see him again.
If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don’t know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer – we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them – we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom.
Why is it that a large majority of Hindus do not inter-dine and do not inter-marry? Why is it that your cause is not popular? There can be only one answer to this question, and it is that inter-dining and inter-marriage are repugnant to the beliefs and dogmas which the Hindus regard as sacred.
But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me – not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.
My discovery that black holes emit radiation raised serious problems of consistency with the rest of physics. I have now resolved these problems, but the answer turned out to be not what I expected.
So to answer your question, I’m not entirely sure how I ended up where I am today, in the sense that nobody in my family is an actor. It just happened by mistake.
Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
Sometimes I am asked if I know ‘the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don’t even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.
If all Henry Kissinger contributed to the Middle East were a regional arms race, petrodollar addiction, Iranian radicalization, and the Tehran-Riyadh conflict, it would be bad enough. His legacy, however, is far worse than that: He has to answer for his role in the rise of political Islam.
A real man won’t ask or answer questions about another man’s money.
Look, Hollywood’s a mecca, but it’s not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.
If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer, the more terrifying its consequences. Incremental improvements upon unsatisfactory circumstances are the best that we can hope for, and probably all we should seek.
If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
I’m very happy doing what I do. And if I were in the White House I would be really interested in continuing to do what I do, which is working… That’s a very cold answer, I guess, but I was trying to answer in terms of ambition.
