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'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

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James Gray
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Born: April 14, 1969

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Greg Rucka

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Adyashanti

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Alan Lightman

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Sydney J. Harris

I think that artists provide questions, not answers. We provide provocations rather than fully formed objects.

Kehinde Wiley

I think great art poses questions and doesn't necessarily give answers and solutions - that's not what I'm trying to do.

Kano

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John Edgar Wideman

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Aunjanue Ellis

The ways in which theological constructs pose questions about what it is to be a human being on this earth are deeply elegant and deeply interesting to me. I may not always agree with the answers religion offers, but I take great interest in the questions it poses.

Ayana Mathis

Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and exhaust a musical theme? Even after having read the most profound thinkers, one still feels the need to begin anew. Only music gives definitive answers.

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The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Transformation comes more from pursuing profound questions than seeking practical answers.

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We used to have lots of questions to which there were no answers. Now, with the computer, there are lots of answers to which we haven't thought up questions.

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