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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
Comedians are sociologists. We're pointing out stuff that the general public doesn't even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.
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 first task is to discover the dharma by introspection, by constantly questioning yourself and asking yourself, "What is right?"
Though our challenges are fearsome, so are our strengths. Americans have ever been a relentless, questioning, hopeful people.
You really get tired in one area of your life, and then you start questioning your whole existence.
It's the life of an actor to always be questioning, always be wondering. There is no occupation in the world less dependable.
If it's worth listening to, it's worth questioning until you understand it.
We are a nation founded on distrust of government power, and questioning that power is essential to promoting transparency and accountability.
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.
The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.
I remember thinking this was a proper football interview, just as David Davies had promised. But then the line of questioning changed, and it became about my beliefs on reincarnation.
It's dangerous to buy the American Dream without questioning. We need to ask, 'Why do I want this dream?'
If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts.
Have you ever noticed the Democrats always set the agenda? Whatever the Democrats say they want, that's just what's gonna happen. There's no questioning the policy!
Now everybody is questioning everything, so it's up to journalists who really care about the truth to fight for their corner of the truth and journalistic freedom.
Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question.
I always think of my characters as alive human beings and try to generate questions around their life and understand their socio-political background. It was a lot of questioning and reading.
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.
Credulity as a character trait is encouraged in every child who grows up with religious training, which invariably insists on the virtue of blind faith and the sinfulness of doubting and questioning.
Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening.
I've stopped questioning things and how things work.
Questioning someone who is acting as a lookout for a burglary might not result in an arrest, because there is not enough evidence of a crime in progress to support one, but that intervention will likely avert the break-in.
I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.
The hallmark of an authoritarian idiot is yelling TERRORIST-LOVER! at anyone questioning the definition of Terrorist.
Having the answers is not essential to living. What is essential is the sense of God's presence during dark seasons of questioning.
I started second-guessing myself and was always questioning myself. I have really learned a lot.
There's something wonderful about that sort of Poirot, Agatha Christie-style investigation: cross-questioning all the witnesses and checking their stories, looking for means, motive, and opportunity.
Another part of what gave me a questioning, rabble-rousing, activist heart and soul is that when all these heavy events went down, my parents did not shelter the kids from it.
I am not questioning your honor, I am denying its existence.
I'm not a philosopher so why should I provide anyone with the answers? I'm just a musician, I don't have any solutions. All I'm doing is questioning the status quo, with every record I've made, to a certain extend.
We believed it was a Good vs Evil situation: that the WBC was right and everybody else was wrong, so there was no questioning. It was a very public war we were waging against the 'sinners.'
That's what university life is all about. Challenging, questioning, enjoying good people and good friends, and pushing yourself to the limit.
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.
When you become a citizen, you are an American and questioning somebody's Americanness because they disagree with you - is about one of the most un-American things I can think of.
Che is not just a potent figure of protest, but the idealistic, questioning kid who exists in every society and every time.
I'm not generalizing anymore about men and women, because I think these old terms of "masculine" and "feminine" are going very fast with the rise of transgender rights that are questioning what all these categories are.
The same government that requires a taxpaying citizen to document every statement on his tax return decrees that questioning a welfare applicant demeans and humiliates him.
The roughest part is showing up. Once you throw yourself into the scene, it's just great fun to let it all go and not be self-conscious, and stop questioning whether you're sufficient.
We have a lot of sort of received historical ways of viewing portraiture. And I suppose in some way I'm sort of questioning that by toying with the rules of the game.
Wing-suit flying can be safe if you are highly practiced and skilled and follow the fundamental rules of questioning yourself and waiting or walking down when something doesn't seem 'right.'
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.
Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.
In my judgement, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions.
Houllier couldn’t deal with players expressing any anger or questioning any of his decisions
There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.
By questioning all the aspects of our business, we continuously inject improvement and innovation into our culture.
It is only by questioning what people take for granted, what people hold to be true, that we can break through the hypnosis of social conditioning.
The questioning spirit is the rebellious spirit. A rebellion is always either a cloak to hide a prince, or the swaddling wrapper of a new rule.
The two ideas are antithetical. Insofar as photography is (or should be) about the world, the photographer counts for little, but insofar as it is the instrument of intrepid, questioning subjectivity, the photographer is all.
Believe what you like, but don't believe everything you read without questioning it.
I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
What the hell is happening to the world when those who were at the origin of... international humanitarian law start questioning in public debates whether it has any relevance or should be respected?
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.
Even the lesser burdens of a criminal investigation - including preparing for questioning by criminal investigators - are time-consuming and distracting.
I tell my students that the single most powerful thing that we have in this country - something that literally harbors no dissent and no questioning - is the all-powerful elite narrative.
Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.
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.
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.
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.
Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.
