Life is insanely robust, though we can make species go extinct, and this is the bad thing. So I always make the point that you can’t say, ‘Is it too late?’ That is the terrible question, because either answer promotes inaction. If it’s too late, you don’t need to act; if it’s not too late, you don’t need to act.
I had to stop going to auditions thinking, ‘Oh, I hope they like me.’ I had to go in thinking I was the answer to their problem.
Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth.
I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions.
My parents often wondered why I would grow so indignant at the falsification and exploitation of the Nazi genocide. The most obvious answer is that it has been used to justify criminal policies of the Israeli state and U.S. support for these policies.
I have a son, who is a… not an ordinary form of schizophrenia, but clearly, cannot take care of himself. And the great fear of then, of all parents is, when the parents die, who takes care of your child? And the answer is: they become homeless.
We are all seekers in some way. There are those of us who think they have all the answers and there are those of us who may never get an answer.
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.
Ask yourself: was there anything I could have done to prevent the situation? If the answer is yes, do something now and become a better person for it.
I do not think it possible for anyone to get by in life without prejudice. However, the attempt to do so leads many people to suppose that, in order to decide any moral question, they have to find an indubitable first principle from which they can deduce an answer.
Maybe you’re going to a concert thinking you’re not going to hear anything but music. But you may walk away from there with an answer to a problem that you’re carrying around with you that you didn’t think you were going to hear about.
I’m very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That’s my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it’s not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.
And the Republican Party especially associates the market with the idea of progress, goodness, family, and points us toward the mall as an answer to all our personal dreams.
Don’t look too far into the future, just look at tomorrow. One day at a time. Can you win tomorrow? Can you make progress? The answer is yes, you have a choice and tomorrow you’re going to win.
When I was a little girl, I loved monkeys. I wanted to be a primatologist. I went to the careers office to ask how. Because nobody could give me a good answer, I opted for acting.
If some woman tells me how she feels about something, my immediate assumption is that she wants an answer, or that she wants me to solve her problem. In fact, all she wants to do is share, or show how she feels.
Nor do I think that any other nation than this of Wales, nor any other language, whatever may hereafter come to pass, shall on the day of severe examination before the Supreme Judge, answer for this corner of the earth.
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
There are many questions, but I cannot answer because I’m not a businessman, I am a climber.
Try to guess my answer to that question, however temptingly you pose it.
At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.
Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer.
Hesitation is often like procrastination. One may have vague doubts and feel a need to mull things over; meanwhile, other issues intrude on thought, and no decision is taken. Ask people why they procrastinate, and you probably won’t get a crisp answer.
My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there’s a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.
If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.
Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
I will never come around to the idea of an anthropomorphic God. I’m also uncomfortable with the word ‘God’… I’m agnostic about the answer and I’m agnostic about the question.
With my book ‘How to Remodel a Man,’ I was on Oprah, Fox News, the Early Show, and Good Morning America. Oprah was the best – an hour long segment. TV is so short; you answer a few questions, and then it’s over. It feels like a hit-and-run with a camera.
You better arm yourselves to answer your children’s and grandchildren’s questions… no matter what the question is… without being judgmental.
People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.
Let us ask ourselves, ‘What kind of people do we think we are?’ And let us answer, ‘Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.’
Washington’s answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The ‘fiscal cliff’ process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation’s so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt.
Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.
The one thing I seek above all else is understanding. Sometimes I’m so frustrated and I don’t get it. But I’m lucky to have a good management team and people around me who explain things and answer my questions.
I’m kind of old-fashioned, so I think the guy should always be the one to call. The girl just answers… Or doesn’t answer.
My shaven head is my way of saying ‘I wont take no for an answer,’ it is my way of saying ‘I believe in my creativity and artistry.’
Do the elected officials in Washington stand with ordinary Americans – working families, children, the elderly, the poor – or will the extraordinary power of billionaire campaign contributors and Big Money prevail? The American people, by the millions, must send Congress the answer to that question.
Don’t take ‘no’ for an answer.
I love technology, and man, is it helpful. But it also means you’re always on. Always findable. Always available to ‘just take five minutes’ to answer an email, tweet a link for someone, check in quickly on FourSquare.
A religious commitment coupled with theological awareness gives Jews a much better way to answer the claims made upon us by missionaries representing other religions than do the rather weak political and cultural arguments of the secularists.
If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
He ended it. He just said he didn’t – he – well, what he said was that he didn’t feel it was right, and you know, I mean that’s – because he ended it, he’d probably have to be the one to answer that.
Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.
If you have a problem with my answer that’s your problem, not my problem.
When he asked me, with obvious self-satisfaction, what I thought of the scenario, I hardly knew how to answer. I asked if he had seen the play and was hardly surprised when he said no.
I’ll have a different answer tomorrow that I do today.
That’s the $64,000 question. And I would love to tell you there was an answer.
With data collection, ‘The sooner the better’ is always the best answer.
Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.
We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.
What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
The simplest way out of the puzzle of time travel is to say that it can’t be done. That’s very likely the right answer. However, we don’t know for sure.
Women often don’t want to admit that they like fashion. And yet fashion enthralls everyone, from the taxi driver to the mega-intellectual. I have often asked myself why this is. I don’t know the answer.
I’ve always been inspired by small details that make me wander. My mother would ask me, ‘What are you looking at so intensely?’ I would answer, ‘Everything and nothing.’ She really supported my wanderings, called me Marco Polo.
