Why Quotes
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No,' Ben says, 'but I believe it. I believe it for you. And that's why it's hope.
Patrick Ness
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People have always asked me why my favorite event was floor, and my answer was always, 'Because I love to dance!'
Laurie Hernandez
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I must admit, Peter, I have difficulty in understanding why an innocent man would want to spend twelve years as a rat.
Joanne Rowling
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Why must he mistrust his life just when he was more its master than he'd been in years?.
Philip Roth
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I don't enjoy reality television at all. I have to say that I get it, though. I watch some of it, and I understand why people enjoy it.
Kristen Schaal
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I don't understand why black people have been so quiescent, so passive over the hundreds of years of American history. Why hasn't there been more violence, more armed struggle? I know answers to some of that, but it seems to me it's an issue of faith, an abiding faith in some sort of great beyond, or great spirit, or even in the American dream.
John Edgar Wideman
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A lot of people have agencies to handle their social media, but I handle everything myself. That's why there are a lot of grammatical errors. When I write, it's all me!
Varun Dhawan
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I think more and more people want to live alone. You can be a couple without being in each other's pockets. I don't see why you have to share the same bathroom.
Jeanne Moreau
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If I didn't love tennis, I wouldn't be playing. That's also why I don't know how long I will be playing because if I start feeling like this is not what I want to do anymore, that there's not really any reason anymore.
Caroline Wozniacki
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If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?
Joe Namath
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A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire. It's not something I'm interested in trying. I would fail miserably at it, so why even bother?
Christian Bale
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I always loved working as an actress, but I didn't understand why I couldn't just opt out of being famous. And then I realized you can, and I think I did. And eventually, I came to understand that you can do that and also keep working.
Debra Winger
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Dantzig explains why the language of number had to be increased to meet the needs created by the new technology of letters. (p. 200)
Marshall McLuhan
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A lot of the things I do are obvious things that for some reason are not done. I could never figure this out. Why don't people do the obvious?
Peter Saul
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The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.
Paul Cezanne
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The Master of Jordan College is a foolish old man. Why he gave it to her I can't imagine; you need several years of intensive study to make any sense of it at all.
Philip Pullman
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I was never challenged when it came to acting as a youngster. I sort of just did whatever was given to me without asking questions. I didn't really understand why I enjoyed it or why I did it.
Mary-Kate Olsen
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If you don't learn from why you're in the position you're in, you are doomed to repeat it. You need to bring meaning to every setback.
Jillian Michaels
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'Shadow Hero' was my first superhero story. I don't know why it took so long.
Gene Luen Yang
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We spend millions of dollars every year just for the right to pay our taxes, but once again, do we really need to do that? Why don't we simplify it? And I've certainly looked at fair tax, I've looked at flat tax, and if I get to the U.S. Senate, I'd like to review that.
John Raese
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These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.
bell hooks
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This culling poem is a blessing. Why do you think it was created in the first place? It will save millions of people from the slow terrible death we're headed for from disease, from famine, drought, from solar radiation, from war, from all the places we're headed.
Chuck Palahniuk
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Why don't you confer with Mr. Finnigan? As I recall, he has a particular proclivity for pyrotechnics.
Joanne Rowling
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She had a way of moving that moved him as much as music, which was what moved him most of all. Surely the spirit animating that pearless body must be unusual too? Why would nature make a vessel like that, if not to contain something still more valuable?
Joanne Rowling