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Florentijn Hofman

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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
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To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
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Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
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You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.
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Everyone wanted answers I wasn't ready to give.
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She answers any question you ask. Not everybody is like that.
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The problem is that I know the textbook answers to any question you care to ask.
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Question everything that is popular, and seek answers in what is not.
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I've worked for the state for 17 years and still don't make $30,000. That answers your question.
KATHY BOWMAN
Life is never fast track.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Praying is a supreme power.
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had some questions, we tried to give some answers... it was not negotiations.
MARC GROSSMAN
Shaq pe hai yaqeen unko,
Yaqeen pe hai shaq Mujhy.....
.....Kis ka jhoot jhoot hai,
K...
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You've got to love what you do to really make things happen.
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God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.
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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
FELIX FRANKFURTER
Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one
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Sometimes the answers are in the question!
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I had nothing to say to these strangers, whoever or whatever they were.
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Or to re...
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