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“I can't figure out why anyone invests in active management, so asking me about hedge funds is just an extreme version of the same question. Since I think everything is appropriately priced, my advice would be to avoid high fees. So you can forget about hedge funds.”

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Author:Eugene Fama

“I never say "nagging". I think that "nagging" is a term that men created to get women to pipe down some. But it's a trap that we've created. We created several terms for women to back you down. Nagging means to stop asking me questions, then we get away with more. I think it's a term men created.”

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Author:Steve Harvey

“I think the most important thing that I can offer young musicians is once you get up on the bandstand, understanding that you're now asking this prayer to come through you. When you think about music it's got to be that way. Just the thrill of being able to play another note, not to win anything or get a trophy.”

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Author:Bobby Hutcherson

“I think I have an ongoing conversation with God. I think throughout the day, I'm constantly asking myself questions about what I'm doing, why am I doing it.”

Thinking Conversation Asking Ongoing Conversations With God

Author:Barack Obama

“People don't know what Kabbalah is, and so they jump to conclusions. For me, studying Kabbalah is studying - is just - is asking questions. And I encourage all of my children to be that way, and I think people don't understand that. And so they make assumptions and they judge.”

People Thinking Knows Way Children Study Judging Asking Conclusion My Children Assumption Asking Questions Kabbalah

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“I think testing films are a great tool. And I think showing them to people that you value their opinion is important, but once you give over to what reviewers think, that's tricky. You don't know what their agenda is; it's so subjective. You have got to make sure you are asking someone's opinion who you know.”

People Thinking Knows Giving Important Film Values Opinion Tools Asking Agendas Testing Subjective Tricky Reviewers Who You Know

Author:Bradley Cooper

“Every director is different and they all have different styles. I've worked with directors who were very specific and they gave a lot of direction. The one thing about Michael [Haneke]that I think is interesting is that he really has a reason for everything he's asking you. If you challenge it, he is open for discussion but he has a clear idea of what he wants with reasons why.”

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Author:Michael Pitt

“The idea of a government is to create an ordered, willing work force where there's no trouble. I think idlers are generally seen as potentially dangerous because they're asking questions.”

Thinking Ideas Government Force Trouble Dangerous Willing Asking Asking Questions Idlers

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“A lot of people think that Jesus is coming back. That's fine, it's your right. But you know, I live in New York, and I think he's running a little late. I'm asking myself, 'Alright, what happens if Jesus comes back tomorrow? What - does he make rounds to churches?' 'OK, everyone who's been good, buses leave in 10 minutes. I'll meet you in front of the post office. I gotta go. Oh, don't tell the Jews I'm back.'”

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Author:Marc Maron

“I think we need to think about Islamic tradition as a way of asking questions that cut across (and transgress) the assumptions of a purely secular world in which we already know how things stand for individual subjects as well as for societies.”

Thinking Knows World Way Needs Wells Individual Know How Cutting Subjects Tradition Asking Assumption Islamic Secular Asking Questions

Author:Talal Asad

“I think writers can get too attached to these worlds they create, these characters they make real, so that, instead of ending the story where the story's asking to end, they draw it out, unable to let go.”

Thinking World Real Ends Character Stories Letting Go Draws Asking Unable To Let Go

Author:Stephen Graham Jones

“Art is about asking questions and engaging a dialog. By challenging or investigating conventions contemporary art helps promote an on-going sense of discovery, contemplation, and understanding. I think these are all important things.”

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Author:Kim Anderson

“The question I'm constantly asking myself is: what are we afraid of? I think it's important for us to follow that line of fear, because that is ultimately our line of growth.”

Thinking Important Growth Lines Asking

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“You use elements of noir, but you don't want it to be too noir-ish. You don't want it to be advertised as though you're asking people to go and watch an updated noir. I don't think they'll go do that. They want to see a modern story.”

People Thinking Want Stories Use Watches Modern Elements Asking Noir

Author:Danny Boyle

“Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.”

Thinking Feels Writing Dog Criticism Asking Creative Writing

Author:John Osborne

“To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man.”

Thinking Men Persons States Action Law Political Order Perfect Fit Asking Originals Bounds Possession Laws Of Nature Political Power

Book:Two treatises of government

Source: Two treatises of government

“I think cheese smells funny, but I feel bananas "are" funny. I'm assuming Swamp told the whole story of the executives seriously asking us to replace the banana with cheese because they thought it was funnier.”

Thinking Feels Whole Stories Asking Assuming Smell Executives Cheese Bananas Cheesy Swamps

Author:Joe Murray

“You've got to be happy if they get your facts right. Since January I don't think I've recognized a damned thing that I've filed. I just pour everything out of the boot. Otherwise you get a phone call at three in the morning asking why you left out that the candidate had his teeth drilled that morning.”

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Author:John Lindsay

“The 70s were a wonderful time to be young. I think most young people at that time were pushing the boundaries, asking all sorts of questions of society, of life and of themselves. They were very politicised. It was part of the air that we breathed.”

People Thinking Young Wonderful Air Asking Boundaries Pushing Be Young Wonderful Times

Author:Robyn Davidson

“When I start asking my friends, "What do you think this means?" And it leads to way more interesting conversations than what it actually ends up meaning in the dictionary. Like "apocryphal," for instance.”

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Author:Andrew Bird

“Whether that's speaking up in your job or asking for a promotion or saying, 'I think I can do that.' Using your voice in ways that might initially scare you. That can be being an architect of change.”

Thinking Way I Can Might Jobs Voice Can Do Asking Scare Architect Promotion Speaking Up

Author:Maria Shriver

“People think, 'Oh my goodness! I have to do something really big.' You don't. Do what you love. There's a great quote from a poet I use all the time: 'Instead of asking what the world needs, ask yourself what you love,' because what the world needs is more people doing what they love.”

People Thinking World Needs Use Bigs Asks Poet Goodness Asking What You Love

Author:Maria Shriver

“I think that giant American corporations should start asking themselves if the things they make are really, I mean really, better than the ordinary. Clearly people want things that make their lives the way they wish they were.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Want Should Mean Wish Ordinary Asking Corporations Giants

Author:John Peterman

“Creatures are cups. The sciences and the arts and all branches of knowledge are inscriptions around the outside of the cups. When a cup shatters, the writing can no longer be read. The wine's the thing! The wine that's held in the mold of these physical cups. Drink the wine and know what lasts and what to love. The man who truly asks must be sure of two things: One, that he's mistaken in what he's doing or thinking now. And two, that there is a wisdom he doesn't know yet. Asking is half of knowing.”

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Author:Rumi

“Having an answer is a comfort. It's when you start asking questions and those questions pull threads in the larger fabric, you're forced to wonder what you're left with. And for people of any age, it's scary to think the fabric of the universe - or the universe as you've always believed it existed - can just unwind, you know?”

People Thinking Knows Age Universe Left Answers Wonder Comfort Asking Scary Thread Fabric Always Believe Asking Questions Unwind

Book:God Is in the Pancakes

Source: God Is in the Pancakes

“When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.”

“I think that young people are going to continue on with the work on pluralism for two reasons, really. One is because it's the reality of the world that they live in, and I think young people from different backgrounds are asking themselves, what does it mean for me to be a Buddhist and friends with a Baptist?”

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Author:Eboo Patel

“We usually start by asking the collaborators to submit a couple of ideas. Then, Larry and I will sort through all the submissions and choose the ones based on what we think will add most to the collection. Once the scripts are written, the stages are: rehearse, record, edit, sound design, foley and finally, the mix.”

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Author:Glenn McQuaid

“I am very interested in asking questions, and I am very interested in being involved in shows that ask people to think and feel.”

People Thinking Feels Shows Asks Involved Asking Asking Questions

Author:Thomas Sadoski

“Obviously, my tastes and my priorities have changed. But I'm still asking the question 'Why?' Just because I'm a mother doesn't mean I'm not still a rebel and that I don't want to go in the face of convention and challenge the system. I never wanted to think in a robotic way, and I don't want my children to think that way, either.”

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Author:Madonna Ciccone

“I think the problem with polemics is that it's general and it's lazy. When you say, "This is bad," that's a general thing. We're more interested in asking the question.”

Thinking Problem Asking Lazy Polemics

Author:Tony Goldwyn

“Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus. I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it's a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us. And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.”

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Author:Al Franken

“I heard today that the White House isn't even backing its own bill, because Democrats on the Hill pushed back against it. So now what they're asking for is just a clean $4 billion to help deal with the crisis with no policy reform. And I think that contributes to people having less confidence in their government.”

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Author:Dana Perino

“And while dollars have little to do with it, the fiction writer should be asking the same question any capable film producer would ask: Is this scene truly necessary? It is the kind of thinking that, put into practice, results in a story with a sense of energy and direction.”

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Author:Les Standiford

“All we are asking for is balance. I would like to think that I could walk into a public library and find not only works by Gloria Steinem but also those of Phyllis Schlafly. I would like to think a teenager could be taught in sex education that a serious alternative to abortion is teenage abstinence, or should pregnancy occur, that adoption might be preferable. I am not trying, as the ad says, to shove religion down anyone's throat. But I do think everyone has a right, and that the Christian voice is being chocked off.”

“But I think for me, why I was drawn to the piece is, at the core of the story, it's a love story to me - between Ed and Lorraine, between these two families who are asking for help and us who are in the business of giving help.”

Thinking Giving Two Helping Stories Pieces Asking Core Love Story Asking For Help Giving Help Lorraine

Author:Vera Farmiga

“And then simultaneously I don't think they're asking you to necessarily write in stone that this is what you're going to do or what you have to do.”

Thinking Writing Stones Asking

Author:Bryan Burk

“I used to eat because food tastes so good. I love food, it's one of the best things on this planet. But I changed the way I was thinking. I started asking myself, 'Hey, am I eating because it tastes good? Or because I really need some more? Am I really still hungry?'”

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Author:Jordin Sparks

“You do not need to justify asking questions. But if you think you have found answers, you do not have the right to remain silent.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Found Answers Asking Silent Justify Asking Questions

Book:How To Grade Your Professors: And Other Unexpected Advice

Source: How To Grade Your Professors: And Other Unexpected Advice

“You watch him playing Jack Sparrow, and he's loving it, and he's loving being in that world. He's still excited by it. Sometimes, he'll even say, 'Was that OK?' And I'm thinking, 'You're Johnny Depp man, you know that's OK!' But he doesn't. He's still going to [director] Gore [Verbinski] and asking for help. It's a privilege to see the human side of Johnny. It's really exciting.”

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Author:Keira Knightley

“It used to be embarrassing. In the beginning, because you listen to yourself so much, you think, I must look like an asshole right now - or sound like an asshole. And then, you just get to that point where you've done so many ridiculous, ridiculous things in the booth from screaming, to having orgasms, to whatever your director is asking you to do for this character, you just lose your inhibitions.”

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Author:Rachael MacFarlane

“I think one of the things about Peter Parker that is so great, and what has made him and Spider-Man last so long is he is a kid that we all feel connected to, he's not an alien, he's not a millionaire, he's just this kid that has trouble asking girls out.”

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Author:Marc Webb

“That's like asking you to pick your favorite child... I do however, think Bird on a Wire was one of my finest works. Oscar caliber.”

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Author:Mel Gibson

“I think my strength in teaching and what I get a lot of good feedback on is going towards the students and asking them what they are about. It's about putting your own personality into the work.”

Thinking Teaching Students Personality Asking Feedback

Author:Vaughan Oliver

“Always think twice before asking anything of anyone that ends in the words, on your face.”

Thinking Ends Faces Asking Your Face Think Twice

Author:Dana Gould

“My mother said that when I was young I was constantly saying, Look at this - Look at that. I think that taking pictures must be my way of asking people to Look at this - Look at that. If my photographs make the viewer feel what I did when I first took them - Isn't this funny... terrible... moving... beautiful? - then I've accomplished my purpose.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Feels Firsts Looks Said Beautiful Moving Young Mother Purpose Terrible Asking Photograph My Way Accomplished Viewers Taking Pictures

Book:A Photo Journal

Source: A Photo Journal

“The only thing I can hope the viewer will get from the work is something about the structure of the work. It would be asking too much, I think, for them to get my exact intention. But if - through the construct of language, the way things are juxtaposed - there is some sort of disruption of the way you would normally go about reaching photographic images... if that is happening, that's fine.”

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Author:Lorna Simpson

“People are always asking me in interviews, 'What do you think of foreign affairs?' I just say, 'I've had a few.'”

People Thinking Asking Affair Interviews Foreign Affairs

Author:Dolly Parton

“The road to hell is paved with reasonable religion with a non-anxious god. Most days, I'm pretty happy driving down that road. But I keep running into this Crazy Fellow along the way. At every stop light, he jumps up and down to get my attention. He pounds on my window asking me where the heck I think I'm going. He stands on the front bumper, shouting at me to turn around. When all else fails, he throws himself in front of the car. He's such a drama queen.”

“I think there is a legitimate critique of reformism, as a politics that is content with making small changes in society without asking for bigger and deeper changes. And revolutionary reforms, meaning actions that we take in small ways to make the world a better place and disrupt some of the ways that capitalism is reproduced.”

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Author:Cynthia Kauffman

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