Tough Questions Quotes

• Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

  Freeman Thomas

  Honesty, Creative Collaboration, Design

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• Who is in your life asking you the tough questions?

  Jeff Henderson

  Leadership, Christian, Asking

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• I think for a chef, to have a signature dish is a tough question to answer. On one, you don't want to be associated necessarily with just one thing that you think you might do well. On the other side, you've got to commit to owning up to certain things.

  Chuck Hughes

  Thinking, Signatures, Answers

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• Who's got the most heartbreaking voice? I don't know. Tough question.

  J. Robbins

  Voice, Heartbreaking, Knows

  "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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• Studying doesn't have to happen in a silo. It can be a social experience. You can engage with your friends and family to find out the answer to a tough question or have someone explain it to you. You can also study anywhere you happen to be and on any device.

  Eric Lefkofsky

  Family And Friends, Answers, Study

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• It seems an easy choice - sacrifice the tree for a human life - until one learns that three trees must be destroyed for each patient treated. Suddenly we must confront some tough questions. How important are the medical needs of future generations?

  Al Gore

  Stupid, Humorous, Sacrifice

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.119, Routledge

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• My activism is a result of my love. So whether it's trying to preserve the wilderness in Southern Utah or writing about an erotics of place, it is that same impulse - to try to make sense of the world, to try to preserve something that is beautiful, to ask the tough questions, the push the boundaries of what is acceptable.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Beautiful, Writing, Southern Utah

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• I am the nice adversary, the guy that's going to ask the tough questions and is not going to be happy with the quick answer.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Nice, Guy, Answers

  Source: deadline.com

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• There was a time in South Africa that people would put flaming tires around peoples' necks if they dis-sented. And in some ways the fear is that you will be necklaced here, you will have a flaming tire of lack of patriotism put around your neck. Now it is that fear that keeps journalists from asking the toughest of the tough questions... And again, I am humbled to say, I do not except myself from this criticism.

  Dan Rather

  People, Criticism, Asking

  "Veteran CBS News Anchor Dan Rather Speaks Out on BBC Newsnight Tonight". www.bbc.co.uk. May 16, 2002.

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• have a lot of respect for the responsibility that journalists have to ask tough questions, to hold the administration accountable and to be advocates for the citizens of the United States.

  Josh Earnest

  Responsibility, Citizens, Administration

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• I consider it my patriotic duty as an ordinary citizen - not as Secretary of State - to ask questions. I think we have to ask ourselves the tough questions.

  Madeleine Albright

  Patriotic, Thinking, Ordinary

  Source: www.bloomberg.com

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• Matt Lauer asked her [Hillary Clinton] tough questions, in fact, questions that should have been asked and followed up on by the FBI in their investigation where they came to a rosy conclusion. So to me, this was actually very helpful. And I think obviously it was big moment there, right out of the bat when we had the naval officer who really put it to Hillary and said listen .

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Thinking, Should Have, Facts

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• When I say you don't have to be a believer, you just have to say - you have to ask the question to say am I concerned about the tough questions in life, being introspective enough to say, who am I, why am I, what am I?

  Paula White

  Enough, Introspective, Believer

  Source: culteducation.com

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• Running for office in our country takes a lot of money, and candidates have to go out and raise it. New York is probably the leading site for contributions for fundraising for candidates on both sides of the aisle, and it's also our economic center. And there are a lot of people here who should ask some tough questions before handing over campaign contributions to people who were really playing chicken with our whole economy.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Country, New York

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Even though the press at times made me completely crazy as they followed me around the hall, and asked tough questions over and over again - now believe me, every politician feels this way - it is a necessary part of our life, and we must have a press that isn't cowed and won't be afraid of ratings if they get put to the back of the room at a press conference.

  Barbara Boxer

  Crazy, Believe, Way

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• It would be naïve to suggest the Iranian regime will not continue to use its nuclear program, and any economic relief, to further destabilize the region, in the weeks ahead, Republicans and Democrats in Congress will continue to press the Obama administration on the details of these parameters and the tough questions that remain unanswered. We will stand strong on behalf of the American people and everyone in the Middle East who values freedom, security, and peace.

  John Boehner

  Peace, Strong, Freedom

  "Obama administration claims Iran deal a ‘forever agreement,’ despite expiration dates". www.foxnews.com. April 06, 2015.

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• The press really is not doing its job of holding their [the candidates'] feet to the fire. ... The tough questions are not what are you in favor of, but how are you going to get it through Congress?

  Michael Bloomberg

  Jobs, Fire, Feet

  "Bloomberg: U.S. 'Is in Trouble'" by Josh Gerstein, www.nysun.com. June 19, 2007.

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• The most important characteristic that has allowed me to succeed is confidence. I have always been comfortable in my own skin, and even when I was just starting out in my career, had the strength and self-assurance to ask tough questions and push for answers.

  Heather Bresch

  Self, Careers, Important

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• It really is disgusting when a guy in a ball cap with a high school education is the one asking the tough questions.

  Michael Moore

  School, Guy, Balls

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• I don't think a tough question is disrespectful.

  Helen Thomas

  Thinking, Literature, Disrespectful

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• If we were created in God’s image, then when God was a child he smushed fire ants with his fingertips and avoided tough questions.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Children, Fire, Ants

  Buddy Wakefield (2011). “Gentleman Practice”, p.13, SCB Distributors

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• I think the more important task for a young person than developing a personal brand is figuring out what she's great at, what she loves to do, and how she can use that to leave an imprint in the world. Those are tough questions, but essential ones. Answer those - and the personal brand follows.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Thinking, Mind

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• If you set as your goal to roll back the size of government, you have an obligation to answer the tough questions and show real courage, not just appeal to ideology. Treat the voters like adults.

  Brian Baird

  Real, Government, Goal

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• Political journalists love graduate student intelligence, the ability to make clever allusions in seminars, and in 1999-2000, they hassled George W Bush for not having it. They didn't realise what this book succinctly displays: that the president has something far more important - CEO intelligence, the ability to ask tough questions, garner essential information and make discerning decisions.

  Marvin Olasky

  Clever, Book, Political

  "George Bush's forte for gifted leadership" by Marc Abrahams, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2008.

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• As the economy faces such difficulties, more tough questions need to be asked about what the Tories would do if elected. Their ideology of free markets and small government needs challenging. That has to be part of our job.

  Lucy Powell

  Jobs, Government, Challenges

  "Labour is back on the attack" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2008.

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