Why Quotes

• Working at a startup to make a lot of money was never a thing, and that's why I decided to just finish up school. That was way more important for me.

  

  Kevin Systrom
  • Up
  • Important
  • School

• History and social sciences were my interests. I was always interested in knowing how societies get organized, why there is rich and poor divide, why there are classes. I was never apolitical. I think we are all political in a way. Politics decides our day-to-day life.

  

  Pawan Kalyan
  • Life
  • History
  • Political

• If we go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany - look, we saw it in Britain. Neville Chamberlain told the British people: Accept the Nazis. Yes, they will dominate the continent of Europe, but that is not our problem. Let's appease them. Why? Because it can't be done. We cannot possibly stand against them.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Done
  • Problem

• 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

• I don't try to be completely calculating in everything I say and do, but there's no way I'm going to talk. There's no reason to. And that's why I'm such a boring interview, because I don't go for the shock value, or smartass answers.

  

  Chris O'Donnell
  • Why
  • Value
  • Smartass

• If you don't have your friends, you start to go a bit mad. That's why in the future I don't want to be constantly acting, going from one film to another. I just think it would be so very lonely to be away from your friends and family for so long and no proper kind of routine.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Family

• Tourette's has always been a tough one for many to digest because of its seeming irrationality: 'Why do you have to twitch or make noises? You seem normal, with no physical defects.' It's next to impossible to answer without living it.

  

  Dash Mihok
  • Why

• 'Why Did I Get Married?' did so well because it gave some real perspective on the realities of love.

  

  Lamman Rucker
  • Real
  • Why
  • Perspective

• When studios start telling me why a particular film project won't work, I remember 'Rocky.' I remember that the biggest success Bob Chartoff and I have had was a film nobody wanted to make.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Success

• I think with motherhood and child-rearing in general, everyone's going to tell you how to do it and why. I've always said to other mothers and women when they've asked me, that you have to find your own way and find out what works for your family, at all costs.

  

  Brooke Burke
  • Women
  • Family
  • Motherhood

• That's why 'Gangnam Style' works. If someone handsome uses that phrase it's just awkward. But if someone like me uses it, it's funny.

  

  Psy
  • Why
  • Funny
  • Style

• That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.

  

  Mark Rothko
  • Why
  • Art
  • Spiritual

• I think it's really important for celebrities to use their power of money and fame to get their voices out there. It's funny to me that we're expected to keep quiet just because of who we are. Why do I lose my right to speak my mind because I'm famous?

  

  Lisa Edelstein
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Money

• If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?

  

  Keith Jarrett
  • Music
  • Why

• People ask why there are so few female artists who succeed. It's because women are not ready to sacrifice as much as men. Women want a man, they want a family, they want to have children, they want to be loved, and to be an artist. And they can't; it's impossible.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• Dad was the first man I fell in love with. He was a very funny man. He grew up in the East End of London and was very dynamic, and I understood why my mother fell in love with him.

  

  Patsy Kensit
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Funny

• 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

• I try to be measured and thoughtful about what I put out there because I know a lot of young people follow me on Twitter, and I take that seriously - which is why I don't exclusively tweet about cookies and 'Game of Thrones' and YA.

  

  Jenny Han
  • People
  • Game
  • Thoughtful

• Instead of starting a new science magazine titled The Sciences, why didn't we start a new magazine with the old title Scientific American?

  

  Dennis Flanagan
  • American
  • Science
  • Magazine

• You've always been my best friend, my soul mate, and now I've fallen in love with you too. Why is that such a crime?

  

  Tabitha Suzuma
  • Why
  • Soul
  • Friend

• I answer that question by saying: 'Why Meg Whitman' which is: I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.

  

  Meg Whitman
  • People
  • Done
  • Business

• I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.

  

  Charlotte Gainsbourg
  • Why

• That’s why paradigm shifts are so disruptive and painful: they bring into question the operating assumptions that underlie the existing economic and social models as well as the belief system that accompanies them and the worldview that legitimizes them.

  

  Jeremy Rifkin
  • Why
  • Question

• I understand why parents worry about books - they're worried about their kids. They want to keep their kids safe. But parents aren't always realistic.

  

  Lauren Myracle
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Worry

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