A. A. Milne Quotes

I suppose this is the reason why diaries are so rarely kept nowadays- that nothing ever happens to anybody.

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• Of course, giving is deeply emotional. But supplementing emotion with research makes it more likely that a gift can have a bigger impact. It's like any investment. After all, you wouldn't put funds into stocks or bonds without understanding the potential return. Why wouldn't you do the same when investing in society?

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Why
  • Society
  • Giving

• I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.

  

  Aaron Paul
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  • Guy
  • Enjoy

• I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?

  

  Oscar Robertson
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  • Think
  • Everyone

• When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Time
  • Why
  • Today

• What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Time
  • Work
  • Why

• Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Me
  • Desire
  • Speak

• I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'

  

  Pat Summitt
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  • Hate
  • Me

• It was just me and my mum growing up, and my mum's always said that's why I'm so mature. We were best friends, and if it wasn't for her, I wouldn't even have started athletics, because she wanted me to have a hobby.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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  • She

• Wayne and Drake, it takes them so long to do a song. I understand why, because they want it to be perfect. But I think I can do a perfect song in 10 minutes.

  

  Young Thug
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• I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?

  

  Ralph Abernathy
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  • History
  • Freedom

• Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
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  • Why
  • Clear

• When I write notes in my journal, I'm just trying to scribble down as much as possible. Later on, I decide whether to follow some of those first impressions or whether to abandon them.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
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  • Down
  • Journal

• I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?

  

  Indira Varma
  • Children
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  • Mother

• I learned a lot about America and a lot about Pat Schroeder, and that's why I will not be a candidate for President.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
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  • America
  • Will

• Cinema is about people, and we are a very emotional people. That is why you see those ups and those downs and those colours. That is what Indian cinema is about.

  

  Vidya Balan
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  • Why
  • Emotional

• Governance is complex, difficult, and on the whole, thankless - why ever should the Bright Young Things leave the management of their hotels, newspapers, banks, TV channels and corporations to join, like fleas on a behemoth, the government? Wherein lies the difference between the two worlds?

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
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  • Government
  • Lies

• I often ask myself, 'Why is it that most of the lies come out of Islamic countries, and why is it that most of the social corruptions are in the Middle East and in these Islamic countries?' The answer is, when you control something, when you suppress something, people try to do it another way.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
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  • Control

• Nearly all Americans felt they knew JFK intimately, his charm and wit regularly lighting up the television screen at home. This is why polls showed that millions of Americans took his assassination like a 'death in the family.'

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
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  • Family
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• I think my lesson is to back yourself once you've been given a job. Far too often, I've been given a job and then doubted why I'm there.

  

  Jamie Dornan
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  • Job

• Dealing with those personalities and the people who run this music thing has been most challenging. It's hard to really communicate things to people who run a business yet forget the nature of the business. They only look at the bottom line and the financial return, you know, they forget what it is they're packaging. It's art.

  

  Q-Tip
  • People
  • Music
  • Art

• To know how scientists engage in visual imagery is to understand how they think creatively.

  

  E. O. Wilson

• As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Science
  • Hate

• That's what mayors do. They lobby Congress to provide resources for their city.

  

  Maxine Waters
  • City

• I suppose this is the reason why diaries are so rarely kept nowadays- that nothing ever happens to anybody.

  

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