Why Quotes
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There's such a cynicism about the phrase 'I laughed all the way to the bank.' It's as though money is what you're doing, rather than playing music. If you're playing a money game, why not get into banking?
Artie Shaw
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'It sounds like I'm always being facetious. That's why I never get voice over work. 'You sound like you hate the product.' '
Janeane Garofalo
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We must draw on our early roots and remind people why the Labour party was created and who it sought to represent. We have never been a sectional party promoting self-interest, but instead a force for engaging self-reliance and self-determination.
David Blunkett
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I want to be a Bond girl. Think about it - I have metal components in my legs, so when I go through airport security, I set off the alarms. But when they realize why I'm beeping, they let me through. What if I had weapons in my legs? I could take one off and pull out an Uzi! Legs Galore - that would be me!
Aimee Mullins
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Why not aspire to build a real Jurassic Park?
Newt Gingrich
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Film is a collaborative art form. I don't know why you wouldn't recognize the stunt performers.
David Leitch
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My record's all electric, and that's why I call it 'garage country.'
Aubrie Sellers
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Schools and parents can team up to find books that kids will really get excited about - that will make them say, 'That was a great experience. Now I know why people get excited about reading.'
James Patterson
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I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.
John Sladek
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Somehow I wasn't completely crucified by the critics. I don't know how or why, I probably should've been.
Leif Garrett
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I'm always intrigued by people that listen to my music, I just naturally want to get to know people who listen to my music because people who end up having such an attachment with my stuff, I wonder why they have such a connection to something that's so personal to me in the first place.
Ellie Goulding
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There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily.
P. J. O'Rourke
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O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.
Leonardo da Vinci
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It is not enough to prove something, one has also to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learn how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Why not show off if you've got something to show?
January Jones
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I don't really know why I'm so busy, but I like it. Sometimes I think I need to slow down. And then I'm even busier!
Brianna Brown
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We don't have the answer to why there was a positive test at the moment, ... If I knew the answer, I'd have it tattooed on my arm. The bottom line, I didn't blood dope.
Tyler Hamilton
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Christianity has its own superstition, anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.
Ciaran Hinds
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In the '70s, the gay movement was really making strides. Huge strides. And then AIDS came along and slapped a judgment on it all and the Right Wing religious movement was like, 'See. This is why, we told you.' And it pushed back the movement 30 years.
Mario Cantone
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My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me.
Lord Mountbatten
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I was writing this really long joke about the smell of poop, and I was like, 'What am I doing with my life?' I started to think about why I was a comedian, and then I came up with a reason for existence, which is: inserting absurdity or stupidity into strangers' lives in order to make the world a better place.
Kurt Braunohler
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Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
Robert Frost
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I think how veterans are treated in our country is an abomination. We don't have the draft any more, which is why so many soldiers come from working-class - rather than middle- or high-income families. Those wealthier families aren't affected, so they're not agitating for change.
Laurie Halse Anderson
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You never know what doors are going to open up and why they are going to open up. You've got to be ready to walk through them.
Lester Holt