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I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about the problems. My music at its core is joyful.

Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre or mysterious and unknown and we don't have all the answers for.

I'm a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there's a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I'm just as confused as most people. I don't have the answers for anything.

Ever since the infamous quiz show scandals of the 1950s, the feds had insisted that TV game shows be honest - or that at least they didn't cheat. So as a 'Dating Game' bachelor, I didn't know what I was going to be asked. The other bachelors and I were required to concoct our answers in real time.

What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.

Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all.

When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.

There are no right answers to wrong questions.

I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.

More and more, as I get older, people come up to me and say, 'Thank you for all the laughter.' And my standard answer is, 'It was my pleasure.' But that's the truth.

I get a lot of responses to my movies. Some people say, 'Oh, I thought it was really funny - I hope that's okay!' And my answer always is 'Yes. It's totally okay.'

If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers.

I guess I kind of realized that my whole life isn't one giant press junket. I don't have to be smiling all the time and always have the perfect answer.

A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.

Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions.

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.

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

Sci-fi fans are awesome. They're very smart, they like to be involved, they like to ask questions. I've been asked questions I don't even know the answer to. I've never had any aggressive interactions. I've had lovely interactions.

God the Father lives. He hears and answers our prayers in love. The Savior Jesus Christ, resurrected and glorious, lives and reaches out to us in mercy.

I was one of the first authors to have an active website. I'm totally obsessed with technology. I'm always looking for ways to connect with my readers. I answer all my fan mail.

We may not ever fully understand why God allows the suffering that devastates our lives. We may not ever find the right answers to how we'll dig ourselves out.

Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.

I don't wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I'm asked, I will answer honestly.

A celebrity life can be very fast-paced, and it can be hard to find meaning in it. I believe that everyone is looking for the answers, but the answers are within ourselves.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind - this attitude of uncertainty - is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?

I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.

You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.

My wife asked me once if I weren't a comedian what I would do. I couldn't answer the question. I never imagined doing anything else.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.

Whenever I'm asked who my favourite co-star is, I always hesitate in giving an answer.

The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

In America, they are paranoid about ruining the reputations of people once they are dead and cannot answer back. They have this fascination which to me seems cruel and morbid. I do not want any part of it

In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer.

I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.

China will be the answer to Japan's problems.

'Tis not every question that deserves an answer.

The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If you do that, you're at the center of the universe - if you can find characters who are more ambiguous and can raise more questions than answers.

If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers.

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

But now it's kind of a given that a 15-year-old would have a record deal and sell a quarter of a million records. No one's expecting her to answer any deep theological questions. And I'll tell you, I was asked some deep theological questions from the git-go.

Every sincere prayer is heard and answered by our Heavenly Father, but the answers we receive may not be what we expect or come to us when we want or in the way we anticipate.

Cheap meat is the problem. The answer is to replace meat recipes with vegan meals.

I'm just in an unfortunate business where if you ask me a question I have to answer it honestly and if I don't answer it truthfully then I'm not respected.

We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.

We should be able to go to our government and get clear answers.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don't have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You're trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren't very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

On a certain level, I don't think there is an answer to what the American way is, because it is constantly being re-defined. It's also been exploited and capitalized upon and politicized by one side or the other to the point that a certain degree of cynicism has attached itself to that term.

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

With data collection, 'the sooner the better' is always the best answer.

Most years, if you were to ask me how much I make, the genuine answer is that I have no clue. I usually find out the answer to that question once a year, at tax time, when my accountant tells me.

I don't think women hold all the answers, but with their skills, their strengths, we can get to a better place.

When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'

The most frequently asked question I hear first-time entrepreneurs ask is, 'How do I know when to launch my product?' The answer, more often than not, should be: 'Now!'

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

People have asked me why I made the first chapter of my first novel so long, and in an invented English. The only answer I can come up with that satisfies me is, 'To keep out the scum.'

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.

I have to laugh internally when I'm asked in interviews what nightspots I like to hit. I just don't have answers... so sometimes I make them up.

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions.

I wanted to answer big questions about humanity, about how it is that we understand about the world, how we can know as much as we do, why human nature is the way that it is. And it always seemed to me that you find answers to those questions by looking at children.

I sometimes feel nervous because I give stupid answers to certain pointless questions. It happens in Turkish as much as in English. I speak bad Turkish and utter stupid sentences.

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.

Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do.

I'm interested in asking: 'What does feminine energy mean?' I don't have answers - I just have questions and interesting examples.

I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

The thing for me about Ayn Rand is that her philosophy is the only one applicable to the world today - in every sense. If you take her ideas, then take them farther in your own mind, you can find answers to pretty well everything on an individual basis.

Every time I give a straight answer and read it in a magazine, I say, 'Ouch.' One day I'd like to talk to a psychoanalyst about why celebrities reveal so much of themselves in interviews.

I don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.

When you are too specific on a target, it can drain you. Ask me where I will be when I am 60, and I will have no answer to give.

I have a friend of mine who does me on his answering machine, and when I call him, I answer. It's pretty strange.

I have yet to see someone attack Obama over his report card. A lot of people I talk to from both sides of the fence are like, 'Well, what about this economy? What about these incidents?' There are still no answers except time, but time is the answer for everything.

Man is ever searching for the source whence he has come, searching for the life which is upwelling within him, immortal, nay, eternal and divine; and every religion is the answer from the Universal Spirit to the seeking spirits of men that came forth from Him.

To answer the question, though: I didn't always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was making a short and needed someone who knew screen direction, I would jump in. It would be horrible, but it led to a short, then another, and another. It was like student films.

I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.'

The Obama representatives like Robert Gibbs attack people viciously, but people like me will not be silent and will answer them back.

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.

Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn't have the answers.

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

You know, it's weird being interviewed! Because the weird thing about being interviewed is you get asked these questions that you've never thought about, and you find out what you think as you answer.

In case you're wondering whether I lip synch, the answer is no... people think so because I sound so good.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

My readers - and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.

Films don't hold the answers I'm looking for... Would you not be so much more interested in finding out that Bigfoot existed than in watching a really good movie?

God is being taken out of schools; children are not being raised in church learning the word; many parents are living lives unto themselves, exalting substance rather than Jesus Christ, and those looking for answers are going to church and finding the word is not being preached. There are consequences to these decisions.

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.

If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist.

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

Must the UNMOVIC and IAEA inspectors continue their work in Iraq in the interest of a political settlement? Have all the necessary conditions to that end been met? Russia answers yes to that question. The conditions are there. The inspectors must continue their inspections. And this is a position shared by the overwhelming majority of states in the world, including within the Security Council of the United Nations.

Polls explain, not predict. They are instruments that have limits and collect answers from people who may or may not be telling the truth.

On most of our campuses this is a very scary moment. For us as a group, it's a time at which the answers are uncertain, but no generation will have the opportunity we have to put our mark on the look of education in the future.