Why Quotes

• The basics teachings of Buddha are about understanding what we are, who we are, why we are. When we begin to realize what we are, who we are, why we are, then we begin to realize what we are not, who we are not, why we are not. We begin to realize that we don't have basic, substantial, solid, fundamental ground that we can exert anymore. We begin to realize that our ideas of security and our concept of freedom have been purely phantom experiences.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Freedom
  • Understanding
  • Buddha

• 'Calvin, what kind of trouble are you planning to make?''No trouble at all,' said Calvin, annoyed. 'Why do you think I want to cause trouble?''Because you are awake.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Why
  • Planning
  • Annoyed

• I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

  

  John Steinbeck
  • Why
  • Wonder
  • Progress

• I try not to identify too strongly with any of my characters. I like to stand back and see them objectively. I think this is why I often use boys instead of girls, just in case I get too close and lose the overall picture.

  Jenny Nimmo
  • Why
  • Picture

• We're not masturbating around with some research project. We never were. Even when Linux was young, the whole and only point was to make a *usable* system. It's why it's not some crazy drug-induced microkernel or other random crazy thing.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Crazy
  • Drug
  • Random

• When you start to become a movie star it's easy to believe that you are Superman. That can fool you. That's why I prefer not to pay much attention to fame.

  

  Benicio Del Toro
  • Believe
  • Movie
  • Attention

• Our nation has come so far since 1968 when Dr. King was assassinated, but I know we can do better to achieve The Dream, and that is why I keep marching on.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • Why
  • Dream
  • King

• When I find too many puzzles about the way explanations are given about why there is inequality - why people who work the hardest in the world end up being the poorest - I can't just sit back and not try to understand why the gaps between people are increasing, or why there are so many homeless and hungry people in the world.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• My work is very popular with performers, and there are theatre people who get what I'm doing and what tradition I'm working in. I'm very grateful to them - they're my people, who understand why I work the way I do.

  

  Jason Robert Brown
  • People
  • Work
  • Theatre

• We have contributed through Indian culture; so many international collections are Indian-inspired. Why we don't make an international impact? We have talent, but we have not leveraged it, not married commerce to design.

  

  Priya Sachdev
  • Culture
  • Design
  • Inspired

• Celebrity is quite a fraught word. It is not something I aspire to, but I can certainly see why it could be.

  

  Louis Theroux
  • Why
  • Celebrity

• I have often wondered why I was never captain of the Lakers.

  

  Jerry West
  • Why

• When I came on the tour, I thought, 'Why don't they treat tennis players the same way they look at football players?' Because I've got news for you: when they are on the pitch, they are not saying, 'Hello, how are you?' out there.

  

  John McEnroe
  • Why
  • Football
  • Tennis

• Changing anything in the past, if you believe it's possible, could alter the entire future of the world, including my own birth, so I'd change nothing. Not a thing. As for the future... I think I'd like to see how it all ends, which is probably why I write about the future apocalypse so frequently.

  

  Jeremy Robinson
  • World
  • Believe
  • Future

• 'Jab We Met' is the reason why I have become an actress.

  

  Anushka Sharma
  • Why

• He looked me right in the face and said, 'You fucking bulldyke!' And I thought to myself, 'Oooh, what a smart man! Why, I'll bet he took one look at me and knew I was white, too!'

  

  Lea DeLaria
  • Why
  • Smart

• I'm not sure why anybody makes a physical CD anymore when the costs are so much lower to just throw it up on iTunes. And it doesn't seem that making a hard copy of something prevents pirating any less. I mean I'm amazed that they still do that.

  

  Cliff Martinez
  • Up
  • Why

• When I was growing up, I never felt that I belonged anywhere because we never lived in a house for more than three months. That's all I knew, and that's why I don't really belong anywhere.

  

  Peter Doig
  • Up
  • House
  • Growing

• Before two human beings come in close physical contact, their auras have mingled; that is the reason why we 'feel the presence of another' at times before we become aware of him by means of our ordinary senses.

  

  Max Heindel
  • Why

• We need scientists and mathematicians explaining why they are excited about their subjects but also why they are important for solving social problems, informing political debate and for the economy.

  

  Marcus du Sautoy
  • Important
  • Why
  • Political

• Any actor will tell you there's more of a schedule to doing a television show. That's why you'll notice a lot of big movie actors are doing television, and they'll tell you, it's because of the schedule.

  

  Jason Marsden
  • Why
  • Movie

• You know, equality is a myth, and for some reason, everyone accepts the fact that women don't make as much money as men do. I don't understand that. Why do we have to take a backseat?

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Men
  • Women
  • Money

• There is a reason why the other man thinks and acts as he does. Ferret out that reason — and you have the key to his actions, perhaps to his personality. Try honestly to put yourself in his place.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Thinking
  • Personality
  • Keys

• I don't know why, anytime you see a car filled with people, it's either Middle Easterners or Mexicans. It's one of those two. Even for short trips, my dad would be like, 'Okay, everybody in the car.'

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • People
  • Dad
  • Car

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