If I answer, "Well let's use that trajectory anyway, " wouldn't you conclude that I was less than totally committed to the Mars mission?
Yet if I answer such an email - and I do try to respond to them all - the reply that follows will be couched in very different terms.
If I can answer a question with a brief email it saves everyone time and enables him or her to remain active in meaningful tasks.
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"Well if I had the answer to this I wouldn't be sitting here discussing why we don't have women in public office, " she said.
In other words, I might answer a survey as if I were an ideal version of myself rather than reflecting a true self-analysis.
Any questions are fair game, and if I can't answer, I'll so state.
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Finally, if you are wondering if I know if the lock on the FDNY was vulnerable, the answer is no, because I did not try to open it.
But there are countless examples of women who are terrific wives, mothers and entrepreneurs, so I was wondering if the answer lay in something deeper.
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Physicists are currently hotly debating a topic some of us never think about -- or if we did -- surely we'd think 'there's an answer for that, even if I don't know what it is.
And if I didn't get to answer your question, I'm sorry.
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"When people ask me about Lance, I try to leave him out of the conversation if I can discuss Livestrong in the answer, " he said in an e-mail.
If not (and I submit the answer is very clearly negative), then the court should have refused to sever, and should either have approved or struck the law as a whole.
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If you ask me if I like to lose, I will answer that I don't.
If you want a serious answer, I think that's where the technology is going to take us.
But I was, simply in answer to Jessica's question, I was saying that if the North Koreans do act and they do launch this ballistic missile, we will certainly have something to say about it.
If that satisfies the questioner, I leave the answer at that.
And if you have other questions that I can help answer, please -- I'll stand here as well and you can direct them to me.
We also had an explanation about the situation in the Czech Republic from the Czech prime minister, who is also a man of great qualitities, and I clearly told him that if the Irish answer Yes, it is unthinkable for us to remain in limbo with a Europe that does not have the institutions it deserves in the middle of a global crisis.
I'm saying that if you want to ask me a specific question about Iran, or a specific answer he gave, I can certainly answer that.
If there is a good answer to this conundrum, I have not seen it.
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And I'm quite sure because I know Jack Dromey to be a decent and honourable person, he would have felt that was the right thing to do for him, in those circumstances, but you asked me if I was surprised that it came out, and my answer was yes, certainly.
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By the way, if you're wondering whether I buy lottery tickets, the answer is no.
"If the phone rings in the middle of the night, I answer it no matter what, " said Marylisa Miller.
If you asked me today, I would probably give the same answer, but it would be given after some careful thought.
When people ask if it is too late to come to China, I always answer that, on the contrary, it is still early.
"If we have a free-speech problem, I think the answer to that is more free speech, " said Fernando Ferrer, a board member and former Bronx borough president, though he acknowledged concern about "distasteful and incendiary language" that could incite tensions.
If she doesn't know a test answer, "I just do the best I can, " she says.
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