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I would say I'm quite happy in my life the majority of the time. Earlier in my life I was more questioning, overly trying to figure things out. I like this way much better.Josh Pais
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The punk era, at its best, celebrated questioning the norm and the promotion of originality. Both concepts have always resonated with me.Prabal Gurung
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Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.Earl Warren
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With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.Hanna Rosin
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Before I beat Groves people were questioning whether I was good enough to beat him, and I was the underdog and that provides pressure. Now it's the opposite; through beating Groves people expect me to go in and wipe opponents out.Callum Smith
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The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views.Bob Woodward
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I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning.Richard Dawkins
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Westminster politics is very unattractive, and people are channelling political energy into more inward questioning - there are a lot of musicians whose songs are all about feeling, and it's almost like that's the only safe place to express yourself.Johnny Flynn
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Columbo's deliberately irritating questioning technique - 'just one more thing' - is designed to produce discomfort rather than to elicit information.Mark Fisher
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The space between keepers and defenders is referred to as the 'corridor of opportunity' - a well-hit pass in there has the goalie questioning whether to come into traffic and defenders unsure of whether or where to clear the ball.Glenn Murray
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As the U.S., the world is questioning why not end it, and so if, in fact, we were to pull out, the world would definitely question why we did this to begin with. But I still believe the world would call upon us for help if they needed it.Montel Williams
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Black girls are punished, many times violently so, for questioning and challenging authority, which is something that is often celebrated and encouraged as a sign of intelligence and critical thinking in white boys.Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
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To be critical of television is almost like questioning the fact of God's existence.Sayed Kashua
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My casting in 'Halo' produced by Steven Spielberg, which I am doing, is just color-blind casting; Asians have been questioning why best roles should not come to them and I am so happy about this color-blind casting. I am going to be just what I am in that film.Shabana Azmi
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I follow my interests pretty - I don't like the word 'intuitively.' I follow them in a kind of natural way, without questioning them too much.Lydia Davis
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I grew up listening to 'Planet of the Apes' and other scores, and it was fun for me because you weren't just listening to those scores, but you were also questioning what you were listening to. What are those sounds?Michael Giacchino
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I'm tired of people questioning me because of my age. If you looked at my numbers and watched me throw and covered my birthdate, would age be an issue?Randy Johnson
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Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself.Jon Meacham
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While the Cold War had us questioning our next-door neighbors, big brands emerged to capture our trust. We became consumers.Joe Gebbia
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That's what university life is all about. Challenging, questioning, enjoying good people and good friends, and pushing yourself to the limit.David Robinson
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I used to watch people like Raven-Symone and, you know, the Olsens at a young age, and Will Smith and people like that, and just looking at them at a young age on TV. And just thinking to myself, 'I can do that,' and questioning why I wasn't there.Elijah Kelley
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It is more difficult to make film which does not have a big name. People start questioning the cast and the budget.Farah Khan
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Warhol was questioning the capitalist society.James Rosenquist
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As for people questioning the Balakot strikes, I think people have the right to question.Amarinder Singh
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I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, 'Is it? Why? Why is it like that?' Sometimes that questioning leads to something more.Alice Englert
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I think as a producer, you're always sort of questioning if what you're contributing is something that an artist loves and elevates a song.Rostam Batmanglij
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I have full confidence in the ability of Foo Fighters' audiences to distinguish between questioning HIV and the obvious value of safe-sex practices.Nate Mendel
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I do have faith. I don't have faith that a God exists, nor do I have faith that one does not; I have absolute faith that I do not know, cannot know, am only human, am an infinitesimal creature packed onto a cramped planet crowded with seven billion bodies, and as many yearning hearts, and as many questioning minds.Marya Hornbacher
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It's dangerous to buy the American Dream without questioning. We need to ask, 'Why do I want this dream?'Justin Lin
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Part of science is the questioning of authority, absolute freedom of ideology. The Soviets did some very good science, but when science ran into ideology, it had trouble. Science flourishes best in a democracy.George M. Whitesides
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As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end.Robyn Hitchcock
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I'd like to think the manner in which I do my job, whether it's positive or negative, has very little to do with my haircut or the clothes that I wear or the type of music I listen to, and that's when I get annoyed with that line of questioning.Mike Tomlin
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You don't really understand this until it happens to you, but getting traded... it isn't just about 'getting traded.' It ends up hitting you in all of these different ways. Like, honestly, it's hard not to start questioning yourself.Tyrese Haliburton
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I still have the newspapers of my first match at Barcelona. It was a disaster. We lost 2-0 and everybody was questioning my arrival.Ronald Koeman
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I think that battle that you have almost never goes away. You're always questioning and hoping that stuff goes a certain way, that you get a certain reaction.Adam Cole
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The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning.Brian Ferneyhough
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A free, analytical and questioning press must be helped survive.Xavier Niel
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Snowden and NSA leaders should be brought together face-to-face for questioning in public by a congressional investigatory committee, with both parties allowed to make their points and to counter the assertions of the other. If Snowden is lying, it will come out. If the NSA is lying, it will come out.Robert Zubrin
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The questioning is a stupid formality aimed exclusively at preventing us from speaking at the demonstration.Alexei Navalny
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When I made the decision to go to Europe, a lot of people questioned it. The first six months I was there even I was questioning it, but I think I learned a lot more about myself in that six months than I have my whole life.DeAndre Yedlin
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The day people around me stop questioning my character is the day my character begins to grow vulnerable.John Ortberg
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I think about a young person who is sitting at home, 13 or 14, a person of color, possibly questioning their sexuality, and watching Dr. Hugh Culber and saying, 'I'm a part of an ideal future that we could work towards.' We're planting seeds in the minds of young people to say, 'Your possibilities are limitless.'Wilson Cruz
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If you're always questioning things, you realize the way you're living is just not as beneficial as it could be.NLE Choppa
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The people that were most interesting were always questioning the status quo.John Cameron Mitchell
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'Honey' was the first song I wrote where I was really enjoying myself again after questioning the idea of being an artist.Robyn
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I stopped playing mixed doubles and there is no result in mixed doubles. I was world number six. People who are talking about me and my performance and questioning my career and my achievements, where is the next mixed doubles pair, please show it to me. I would like to know.Jwala Gutta
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You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.Larry Flynt
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I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and I think that questioning our purpose in life and the meaning of existence is something that we all go through at some point.Laurence Fishburne
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Every great story leaves you questioning. If all of the questions are answered, and everything is resolved, it's boring. There's nothing to talk about afterwards.Chris Zylka
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If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts.Dee Hock
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Since 9/11, the Justice Department has been widely criticized for one particular tactic it uses in fighting the War on Terror: it detains suspicious persons for long periods of time and puts them under heavy questioning before they are ever even charged with a crime.Annie Jacobsen
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They dedicated the whole time until around Nov. 10, 2003 to questioning me about Canada and Sept. 11; they didn't ask me a single question about Germany, where I really had the center of gravity of my life.Mohamedou Ould Slahi
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I put my conservatism up against anyone. I'm a pretty staunch conservative, with pretty rabid ideas about conservative values... Questioning my conservatism doesn't seem like a particularly interesting project or exercise.S.E. Cupp
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I think that people are most comfortable when the world is orderly. I think there's the sense that when you begin questioning basic distinctions, such as the distinction between being male and being female, it represents a threat to the social order.Andrew Solomon
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Even criticism is more interesting when the writer's authority does not only come through this omniscient narrator, but through questions, ambivalence, vulnerability. A mind questioning and on the move, not just settling down and declaring - that's one of the most interesting possibilities.Margo Jefferson
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We all press buttons in relationships, in our dealings with people, without thinking what it really means. We all knock along without questioning what kind of situation we're in. We may often be in a very good one, but we don't even appreciate the good situations. We're lazy. Or we're scared. Or we just don't notice.Pauline Collins
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Fortunately, I grew up in a traditional family where questioning was encouraged, particularly by my pandit grandfather. We are all voracious readers, seeking knowledge. I learn a lot from discussions with my wife, siblings and parents.Amish Tripathi
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I'm just so tired of people questioning me and really tired of people not calling me Foodgod. It's my name. Jonathan is not my name.Jonathan Cheban
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The culture of rigorous questioning and open discourse at the University of Chicago has opened minds to ideas that have changed the world.Kenneth C. Griffin
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The casting of 'Slumdog Millionaire' is a dream. Anil Kapoor, as the sleazy TV host, diamonds winking in his earlobes, has never been better; the quietly understated Irrfan Khan turns in another bravura performance as the police inspector whose questioning brings out Jamal's story.Shashi Tharoor
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