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I always say I write because I have questions, not because I have answers. It's true that you begin the conversation - that's the role of the artist. But it's not my job to tell us what to do next. I wish I had those tools.
Jacqueline Woodson
You
Conversation
Job
Wish
Tools
Say
Those
Tell
Write
Had
True
Because
Always
Answers
Questions
Begin
Role
Artist
Us
Next
In the real world, answers may not be clear cut. There will be messy choices, and you're not going to be able to construct a policy response in a neat and tidy way. Being able to listen to other people, even as you stay true to your principles, that's how you actually succeed.
Jake Sullivan
You
People
World
Will
Other
Way
Response
Stay
Stay True
Able
Construct
Clear
True
Tidy
Policy
Principles
Messy
How
Answers
Real
Going
Listen
May
Being
The Real World
Real World
Succeed
Cut
Choices
Your
Even
Actually
Neat
Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.
James Gleick
People
Google
Not Knowing
Elsewhere
More
Along
Likely
Knowing
Answers
Go
Where
Stagger
Used
We have a habit of turning to scientists when we want factual answers and artists when we want entertainment, but where are the facts about the nature of the self? Neurologists peering at PET scans and fMRIs know they aren't seeing the soul in there.
James Gleick
Nature
Entertainment
Soul
Pet
Seeing
About
Habit
Facts
Factual
Self
Know
Answers
Scientists
Artists
Where
Want
Turning
'Apocalypse Now' poses questions without any attempt to provide definitive answers, and the film's profound ambiguities are integral to its enduring magic.
James Gray
Definitive
Magic
Attempt
Without
Answers
Integral
Provide
Ambiguity
Questions
Any
Enduring
Apocalypse
Film
Now
Profound
Poses
I don't have answers. I have questions.
James Hillman
Answers
Questions
My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
James Thurber
Grace
Language
Value
Interviews
Lies
Give
Give And Take
Fact
Take
Answers
Opposition
Perpetuate
Oral
Little
Decline
English
English Language
Helps
Expression
I know that science is very interested in answers, and I'm just happy with a good question.
James Turrell
Good
Science
Happy
Know
Answers
Question
Very
Just
Interested
If you get the question right, if you really define it, then the answers are just sitting there waiting for you. And it's something a little different than people usually think.
Jamie Hyneman
You
Waiting
People
Think
Define
Something
Answers
Question
Than
Get
Sitting
Just
Different
Little
Then
Really
Right
I'm not Michael Moore. I think Michael Moore wants to tell you how to think. He wants to give you answers. I make movies to raise my own personal questions and not to give answers.
Jason Reitman
You
Own
Think
Tell
Moore
Give
My Own
He
Make
How
Answers
Questions
Michael
Personal
Wants
Movies
Raise
The American people deserve answers about Benghazi before we move forward with military involvement in Syria's civil war.
Jeff Duncan
War
People
Before
Military
Benghazi
Syria
Civil
About
Civil War
Involvement
Answers
American
Move
Move Forward
American People
Forward
Deserve
Women tell stories; men want answers. Guys get impatient when we drone on forever; we get frustrated when they tune out.
Jenna McCarthy
Women
Men
Out
Tell
Impatient
Guys
Answers
Forever
Get
Want
Stories
Tune
Frustrated
With nonfiction, I had to learn how to be a clear communicator, but it was also a relief to be able to articulate some of my political ideas and beliefs. I also try to do that in my fiction, but I'm more interested in asking questions that lead to more questions, mysteries that lead to more mysteries, rather than immediate answers and solutions.
Jenny Zhang
Political
Try
Mysteries
Immediate
Relief
Solutions
Able
Some
Rather
More
Lead
Had
Clear
Ideas
Also
Learn
How
Nonfiction
Answers
Questions
Than
Articulate
Fiction
Interested
Asking
Asking Questions
Communicator
Beliefs
I grew up in the church, and I always kind of knew Bible stories and knew the Sunday school answers, but when I was a freshman in high school I joined youth group, and that's when I started to see radical love; that's when I started to see what Christian community is supposed to look like and what fellowship is supposed to look like.
Jeremy Lin
Love
Bible
Youth
School
Church
Sunday
Community
Radical
Group
Christian
Sunday School
Kind
High
See
High School
Joined
Knew
Like
Supposed
Look
Fellowship
Always
Answers
Freshman
Up
Grew
Stories
Started
If you ask ten different people in the diamond industry about the diamond industry, they'll give you ten completely different answers that are opposing, contradicting each other. And maybe that's the thing about the diamond business.
Jeremy Sisto
You
Business
People
Opposing
Diamond
Other
About
Give
Ten
Industry
Answers
Maybe
Different
Ask
Different People
Each
Thing
I say this to everybody: 'Watters World' makes you laugh, and then 'Watters World' makes you cry, because it is shocking, and even I myself am still shocked at some of the answers when I go out.
Jesse Watters
Myself
You
World
Everybody
Say
Laugh
Out
Some
Cry
Because
Makes
Am
Answers
Still
Go
Shocked
Shocking
Then
Even
There are no explanations, there are no answers.
Jessica Lange
Answers
Explanations
There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply.
Jim Barksdale
Past
Some
Through
Pushing
New
Always
Answers
Pat
Frontiers
Lessons
Apply
I mean you really can target your answers to get the instant response and I think that is a very manipulative type of polling. I really have no time for that worm at all.
Jim Bolger
Time
You
Think
Type
Worm
Response
No Time
Instant
Answers
Target
Very
Get
Polling
Mean
Manipulative
Really
Your
Answers are not enough, students should be encouraged to ask questions and explore alternatives to the norm. Entrepreneurship and invention are the backbone of the new economy, yet I doubt they get more than a nod in economics courses.
Jim Hunt
Invention
Economics
Doubt
Enough
Backbone
More
Entrepreneurship
Students
New
Nod
Economy
Alternatives
Courses
Answers
Norm
Encouraged
Questions
Than
Get
Ask
Should
Explore
That's the bulk of my lyrical output - being confused and trying to find answers to my confusion.
Jim James
Confused
Confusion
Lyrical
Find
Output
Answers
Bulk
Trying
Being
There's only one interview technique that matters... Do your homework so you can listen to the answers and react to them and ask follow-ups. Do your homework, prepare.
Jim Lehrer
You
Matters
Homework
Interview
Only
React
Answers
Listen
Them
Ask
Your
Prepare
Technique
I never had faith that the answers to human problems lay in anything that could be called political. I thought the answers, if there were answers, lay someplace in man's soul.
Joan Didion
Faith
Man
Soul
Political
Problems
Thought
Someplace
Lay
Could
Never
Had
Answers
Were
Human
Anything
I never wanted to go to university: books seemed to have all the answers, and the questions, too. I went to work for Jean Muir as her in-house model. Miss Muir - as she will always be to me - was interested in everything.
Joanna Lumley
Work
Me
Will
Too
Everything
Books
Seemed
Never
Miss
She
Always
Answers
Go
Questions
Model
Wanted
Interested
Jean
Her
University
I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for me to write.
Jodi Picoult
Me
Think
More
Write
Toward
Know
Sort
Because
Answers
Issues
Interesting
The American public's a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I'm going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I'm going to do it.
Joe Biden
Complicated
Three
Minutes
Give
More
Takes
Sophisticated
Answers
Issues
Lot
Than
American
Going
Public
Straight
Them
Credit
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