Why Quotes

• You want to know why Barbra Streisand is so difficult? Because she's brilliant. She's a brilliant entertainer, she's a brilliant lady, and she's a wonderful human being, and the community doesn't like it.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Why
  • She
  • Community

• I watched the Bush administration overreact to the Clinton administration, who believed they did too much nation building, sustaining other countries, and that's why we never put the commitment on Afghanistan and Iraq that should have been in there under their policy leadership.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Why
  • Leadership
  • Commitment

• His thoughts were blown and scattered like leaves;He thought of the pail . . . Why, then, was it forgotten?Because he would not need it?

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Why
  • Thoughts

• I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Hate
  • Doing
  • Curiosity

• Work begets work. Just work. If you work, people will find out about you and want to work with you if you're good. So work anywhere you can. That's why I've changed my mind about these theatres where people work for free or have to pay money. I think it's kind of terrible that they feel they have to, but you know what? They're working.

  

  John Carroll Lynch
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Education
  • Support
  • Training

• I understand the rules of Superman - not necessarily better than anyone else - but better than a normal filmmaker would. After doing 'Watchmen' and digging that deep into the why of superheroes, when Superman is presented to you, I felt like I was in a unique position to say 'I get this guy. I know what this is.'

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Guy
  • Deep
  • Better

• I've always loved comic books, which is why I've done films like 'Hulk' and 'The Punishers.'

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • Done
  • Always
  • Loved

• When we started Aventura, I think a lot of - the reason why we became so successful besides, you know, doing good music, was also the fact that it was unique and different and never done.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Good
  • Music
  • Different

• Each culture has some knowledge. That's why I studied with Saj Dev, an Indian flute player. That's why I studied Stockhausen's music. The pygmies' music of the rain forest is very rich music. So the knowledge is out there. And I also believe one should seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave. With that kind of inquisitiveness, one discovers things that were unknown before.

  

  Yusef Lateef
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Culture

• We must be very careful when we say that somebody giving you compliments about your looks should be offensive. I think women really should look at why they're being offended by that.

  

  Charlotte Rampling
  • Women
  • Why
  • Giving

• Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Stop
  • Die
  • Working

• My character is just an extension of me. The in-ring work, the things that will always be said about me: Big, overbearing, powerful, in-your-face, couldn't wrestle - I never needed to wrestle. Why did I need to learn how to wrestle? Did Hulk Hogan need to learn how to wrestle? Nope. Is Hulk Hogan a good athlete? Nope.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Good
  • Work
  • Character

• Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Together
  • Nature
  • Man

• Therefore, why not plastic forms in motion?. ..one can compose motions.

  

  Alexander Calder
  • Why

• Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just a few large buildings and aircraft, it's not like D-Day and the Seige of Berlin.

  

  Bruce Sterling
  • Why

• I'm not affected by violence the way some people are. I don't know why, but I enjoy that intensity.

  

  Paul Walker
  • People
  • Why
  • Violence

• I do believe we have to understand why reality turned out to be different than expectations and estimates. But you have more public service - certainly many of you - than I have ever had, and you recognize that this is not unusual.

  

  David Kay
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Reality

• I had more pressure when I competed in Moscow. I had no pressure in Montreal because I only went to do my routines and hoping I didn't mess it up when I was on the bar. When I came back, 10,000 people were at the airport and I thought, 'Why?' because, in my mind, I hadn't done anything different from what I used to do in my gym.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• 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
  • Why
  • Job

• I have feelings that are to the right, and I have feelings that land on the left side of the aisle. The thing is if you have 10 views that land you on the left side of the aisle and two views that land you on the right side of the aisle, then people just put you on the right side of the aisle. I'm not sure why.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Why
  • Feelings

• That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of themselves as mysterious or confusing, and we are often at a loss as to why women want to figure us out.

  

  Chris Abani
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• There seems to be a great propensity in this business to write tear-jerkers, 'You-left-me' songs. I thought, 'Why don't I count my blessings by looking at what I have?' I'm pretty much an optimistic guy.

  

  Jerry Jeff Walker
  • Great
  • Business
  • Guy

• I guess NBC must have noticed that one of my main staples is social media. So, when they approached me for 'The Voice,' I thought, 'Why not be the first one to do it?'

  

  Christine Flores
  • Why

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