When you make a film for a million and a half dollars and it opens at 20 million, the next question out of everyone's mouth is, 'When's the next one, when's the next one, when's the next one?'
You must be careful when you ask people whether they’re happy; it’s a question that can upset them a great deal.
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
The question is no longer whether the United States should contribute to assuring Israel's survival and prosperity; that goes without saying.
It's not always the case that doing what's right is also doing what's smart, but when it is, the question of 'what to do' should be pretty simple.
The No. 1 question I get from everybody is, 'How did you make it?' I'm like, Don't worry about making it. There is no making it. Just be happy.
If I'm interviewing someone I need to know everything about them - I do these massive spider diagrams. Everything under different categories, and certain questions in other categories.
Neurotechnology may benefit from questioning what kinds of low-information-content signals we can read and write before we try to upload and download consciousness.
When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty.
No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.
An author simply comes up with a hypothetical question, and then spends eight months and 80 thousands words to come up with a believable lie to answer it
We forgot that many, if not most accomplishments will not leave the world a better place, which begs the question of whether they are really accomplishments at all.
Calm for too long begs the question of whether we're in an all-out pursuit of life, or we're all-out of the pursuit of life.
For the critics who think Chesterton frivolous or 'paradoxical' I have to work hard to feel even pity; sympathy is out of the question.
I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I'd like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I'll get to do just that.
If I had to summarize, most broadly, my concerns as a writer, I'd say the question 'How then must we live?' is at the heart of it, for me.
I don't want to respond to rumors that have no basis at all... But I am willing to respond to questions that the public and the press should know.
I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question.
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
Think about it. Every time you fail at a task you've actually learned something new. The question is "what?
The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself.
