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I am always rethinking how art is perceived and received, questioning our relationship to art. That's always been a constant.
For somebody who has injured their brain, every single thing they say and think will be the subject of their own questioning.
It's the life of an actor to always be questioning, always be wondering. There is no occupation in the world less dependable.
I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning.
Questioning authority is, I think, a great thing to instill in children. I just didn't have enough of that when I was little.
'My Struggle' came from a place of questioning and feelings of inauthenticity and frustration, and almost all of that is gone.
If we don't have a vigorous questioning, aggressive journalistic community and mythology, democracy itself is in great jeopardy.
I have realised it is easy to point fingers at others, but the moment you start questioning yourself, you become a better person.
Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.
In the end, the real wisdom of menopause may be in questioning how fun or even sane this chore wheel called modern life actually is.
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.
It's kind of funny that I've been branded as the empathy lady when, really, what I'm doing is questioning and interrogating empathy.
I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
Arizona is in the midst of a fiscal crisis. We've cut school funding. And they pass a bill questioning Obama's citizenship? For real?
The punk era, at its best, celebrated questioning the norm and the promotion of originality. Both concepts have always resonated with me.
The very act of questioning whether you exist proves you do, because you must be there for the doubt to be entertained in the first place.
The culture of rigorous questioning and open discourse at the University of Chicago has opened minds to ideas that have changed the world.
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.
My parents started questioning me about whether or not I was transgender - whether or not I was trying to be a woman. It was a big argument.
But making big decisions shouldn't be easy - it shouldn't be that you have an idea, and you get to execute it without anyone questioning it.
That's what university life is all about. Challenging, questioning, enjoying good people and good friends, and pushing yourself to the limit.
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.
We are a nation founded on distrust of government power, and questioning that power is essential to promoting transparency and accountability.
I think that at the end of the day correcting misinformation and questioning what we think we know as a habit of mind is incredibly important.
The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
I had a brief period of questioning whether I should perhaps adopt a child. And my New Yorker editor, Henry Finder, was horrified by the notion.
You're in high school, and you're telling your friends that you're skipping lunch to go write poetry, and they were all questioning my sexuality.
I want a man who isn't questioning who he is. I want a man to be able to stand next to me and not disappear and not be emasculated by my success.
Any time you find yourself doing something out of obligation, that's a time you should start questioning whether you're spending your time wisely.
I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no.
My college coach was a baseball guy. So why is no one questioning why a baseball player is coaching or analyzing softball when the reverse happens?
For those orderly folks who have life all neatly arranged in their heads, who do more accepting than questioning, unschooling is a disturbing thing.
I have full confidence in the ability of Foo Fighters' audiences to distinguish between questioning HIV and the obvious value of safe-sex practices.
Questioning the origin of music is like asking why the breeze is soothing, why you shiver in exhilaration when the spray from the waterfall hits you.
Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves.
Guitar Hero has been so successful that a lot of people were questioning how it was possible to innovate on the most successful franchise of its kind.
Columbo's deliberately irritating questioning technique - 'just one more thing' - is designed to produce discomfort rather than to elicit information.
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?
I grew up outside of Seattle and have lived here my whole life, and I think that there is a culture of questioning and guilt. Almost an 'anti-ambition.'
Over time, it's occurred to me that my protagonists all originate in some aspect of myself that I find myself questioning or feeling uncomfortable about.
Even the lesser burdens of a criminal investigation - including preparing for questioning by criminal investigators - are time-consuming and distracting.
Right after the assassination of Osama bin Laden, amid all the cheers and applause, there were a few critical comments questioning the legality of the act.
So then there was the Greek, Socrates, he was great... He invented questioning. Before Socrates, no questioning. Everyone sort of went, ''Yeah, I suppose so.
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.
I feel like a lot of women have been questioning their role in their workplaces and society, opportunities that they may have missed or haven't spoken up for.
When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it's less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.
If a woman is comfortable with herself, I think that's what radiates. I think the moment you start questioning your body and looks is when you get into trouble.
I call on people to be 'obsessed citizens,' forever questioning and asking for accountability. That's the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.
We're living at a time when people are questioning what it means to be male in modern society, and I'm finding it very helpful to explore it through these roles.
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.