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Birthday: May 8, 1932

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Every time you get into a new job, new location, you have an amazing opportunity in front of you. You get to play dumb for as long as people will allow you to play dumb. You get to ask all the dumb questions, you get to ask multiple people the dumb questions, and you get to make mistakes. That's how you stand out in the crowd.
Gary Cohn
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There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we're done. That's my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
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The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.


John F. Kennedy
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When I look up and see the sun shining on the patch of white clouds up in the blue, I begin to think how it would feel to be up somewhere above it winging swiftly thought the clear air, watching the earth below, and the men on it, no bigger than ants.
Eddie Rickenbacker
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It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later.
Antoine Fuqua
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
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You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.
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Obviously I read the newspaper sometimes, or I look on the Internet. When you go out in public, you hear things, and people ask you questions, and that's part of the game.
Johnathan Joseph
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Please don't ask me for the actual answer to anything, because I don't have it. Because all I do is look at stuff and ask questions. What can I say? I just think the world's barking mad. Look, I'm not an expert. I'm just an ordinary person.
Annie Lennox
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If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
Scott Adams
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Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.


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An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions.


Levi Strauss
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I get asked enough questions, I try not to ask too many questions.


Derek Jeter
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When you've been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn't have to act perfect all the time.
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I ask myself questions that journalists don't dare to ask or don't know how to ask.


Pedro Almodovar
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Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.
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I'm a gangster, and gangsters don't ask questions.


Lil Wayne
I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.


Zora Neale Hurston
The thing about it is, I'm one of these people that if you're not getting anywhere, you gotta change it up, and you gotta ask more questions.
Paul Gosar
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