I have no problem with technological solutions to social problems. The key question for me is, 'Who gets to implement them?' and, 'What kinds of politics of reform do technological solutions smuggle through the back door?'
Mastery is not a question of genetics of luck, but of following your natural inclinations and the deep desires that stirs you from within.
The idea of choosing something that you want to be, that you identify as, at a young age and pursuing that without question - for me that was acting.
The question is how do you do it [more consumer protection] so that it actually works that way? And that takes analysis, and sometimes collaboration between government and business, to understand how that works.
A lot of people will say, "what's Facebook's business model?" I always find that a kind of funny question. Our business model is out there, which is: we monetize largely through advertising and a little bit through the gift revenue, the virtual gifts we have on our site. I think those continue to be the most promising avenues going forward.
The question is not 'Can you make a difference?' You already do make a difference. It's just a matter of what kind of difference you want to make during your life on this planet.
In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?
The great thing about living in New York is the constant change of things. It inspires me to keep moving, push forward, question ideas. I have a heavy travel schedule so being in a new environment always gives me another perspective to see things from.
When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't. '
People keep asking "Jacob or Edward?" when the really important question is "Diamond Dave or Sammy?
I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?
The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity; and if so, where it lies?
O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't.
It is a silly question to ask a prostitute why she does it. . . These are the highest-paid 'professional' women in America.
I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
If you put on a lousy production with white actors, it's lousy. There is a problem, or can be, at this stage of our social evolution, with mixing the casts. It may not be a question of race so much as class. You would rarely find a black man in a high executive position where he was swinging his weight around.
A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
For me the question was, do I want my paycheck to be dependent on how other people think I look?
The idea of some contact of Donald Trump's office with the Russians to try to find areas of common ground is not irrational or unusual. The question is: Were you doing it in an appropriate way and through proper channels?