It's illegitimate to talk about a post-scarcity Utopia without talking about questions of distribution. There have always been these Utopian predictions - 'electricity too cheap to meter' was the atomic promise of the 1950s.
The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
I went to Catholic school. Do as you're told; don't ask questions and you will be illuminated.
'What is this', and 'How is this done?' are the first two questions to ask of any work of art. The second question immediately illuminates the first, but it often doesn't get asked. Perhaps it sounds too technical. Perhaps it sounds pedestrian.
We do not ask the right questions when we are young, so we miss the important answers. Now it is too late to ask, too late for the illuminating answers, and the unanswered questions haunt us for a lifetime.
Having billions of dollars immediately available to plug budget holes without raising taxes is very appealing. And to the delight of Wall Street investors, state and local governments often fail to ask the important questions or consider the long-term impact.
The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
Bush is a very poor impromptu speaker. He does fine in small groups but when speaking without a script in front of large groups or answering questions he wasn't prepped for, he has problems.
Sometimes, in public life, people ask inappropriate, off-the-wall kinds of questions, don't they?
If I actually invited someone to make a documentary about me, and I said, 'Anything goes', and then I refused to answer any questions, that would be inconsistent.
I believe in individual rights so much that I don't like any sort of 'what's good for the cause'-type questions.
Infidelity raises profound questions about intimacy.
Writers find common ground not through the homelands they once inhabited but the thematic questions with which they grapple.
I'm very inquisitive, and I always have questions and need to touch things to see how it works or why it works.
I signed up for eHarmony once, and it took three hours to fill out that online form - so many personal questions. Then I clicked on submit, and instantaneously they responded and said, 'We are sorry, but there is no one any where in the world that is appropriate for you.' So that was it - I gave up.
Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions.
Being Muslim has become synonymous with pointed questions, with tension and mistrust, even with conflict. It has become a global phenomenon with profound consequences for inter-communal relations, political rhetoric and policies at the local, regional, national and international level.
And I think that what is of concern is that they seem to be bringing skills from the scientific world into the interrogation room in a way that begs a lot of questions about whether it's ethical.
When I'm interviewing somebody I don't work from prepared questions.
