Why Quotes
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Marilyn Monroe was supposedly a size 16, which is probably why I love her style; it suits me better.
Katherine Jenkins
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And that's why, gentleman, if your little girl doesn't come up to scratch, it will be our painful duty to cut all your throats. Merely in a way of business, as you might say, and no offense, I hope.
C. S. Lewis
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If God could make angels, why did he bother with men?
Dagobert D. Runes
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If you want to help the poor, help the poor, and with your own time and money. Liberals prefer to do it with someone else's, which is why they love the estate tax.
Kevin Hassett
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A lot of people don't understand why I'm not out diving for treasure.
Clive Cussler
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Mr Blawke always reminded me of a heron; I'm not sure why. Something to do with a sense of rapacious stillness, perhaps, and also the aura of one who knows time is on his side.
Iain Banks
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A lot of times, in a store, clothes appear strange to me, their cuts or flourishes arbitrary. Why is this look stylish now? How long will it be stylish for? It's slightly embarrassing to admit this - because, as a novelist, I'm supposed to be observant - but I'm flummoxed by the way other women dress.
Curtis Sittenfeld
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I don’t know why one can’t chase two rabbits at the same time, even in the literal sense of those words. If you have the hounds, go ahead and pursue.
Anton Chekhov
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It was only long after the ceremony that we learned why we got married in the first place.
Lois Wyse
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I love to know why things work.
Ann Makosinski
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I feel a lot of guilt about the freedom that being an artist provides. I ask myself, 'Why am I not the guy emptying the trash, why am I the guy who is watching the guy empty the trash?'
Jason Molina
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That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club. People are intermingling, hanging out, having fun, enjoying the same music. Hip-hop is not just in the Bronx anymore. It's worldwide. Everywhere you go, people are listening to hip-hop and partying together. Hip-hop has done that.
Jay-Z
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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
James Thurber
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However, intention needn't enter in, and if a reader sees things in a religious way, and the work is dogmatically acceptable, then I don't see why it should not be interpreted in that way, as well as in others.
James Schuyler
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The reason I act is because I'm trying to understand why people are as they are.
Kelly Reilly
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Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.
Angela Duckworth
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Rooftop solar is the first true form of competition that utilities have ever faced, and that is why they're attacking it.
Lynn Jurich
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Everybody can dig The Beatles, but why should everybody dig us?
Bruce Johnston
