Quotes with why

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  • Ben Vereen Nine years after I had my own accident, I find that in trying to go back to doing those things that I used to do just doesn't fit. Everything seems to just fall apart. I don't know why but I think it is because I am this new creature.
    Ben Vereen
    American actor, dancer and singer (1946 - )
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  • Helen Rowland No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Robert Wilson No one is more interesting to anybody than is that mysterious character we all call me, which is why self-liberation, self-actualization, self-transcendence, etc., are the most exciting games in town.
    Robert Wilson
    American theater stage director and playwright (1941 - )
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  • Bob Hope No one party can fool all of the people all of the time; that's why we have two parties.
    Bob Hope
    American comedian, actor (1903 - 2003)
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  • Mignon McLaughlin No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Annie Dillard No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Mignon McLaughlin Nobody really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
    The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Tom Cruise Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Nothing in the world is single. All things by al law divine in one another's being mingle. Why not I with thine?
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Al Capone Now I know why tigers eat their young.
    Al Capone
    American gangster and businessman (1899 - 1947)
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  • John Updike Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Bill Dedman Nuclear power plants built in the areas usually thought of as earthquake zones, such as the California coastline, have a surprisingly low risk of damage from those earthquakes. Why? They built anticipating a major quake.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • William Shakespeare O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavor be so loved, and the performance so loathed?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ben Shapiro Obama wants to raise the issue of immigration reform so that he can demonize Republicans as anti-Hispanic. That's why Obama ignores the broad support for an immigration plan that would provide border security once and for all and then deal with the illegal immigrants who live here.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Bobby Rahal Obviously it's critical that the three cars are able to contribute to the program. I think that certainly has given much of the reason as to why we did so well at Indy over the last several years.
    Bobby Rahal
    American auto racing driver (1953 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
    Poems, 1913-1956 Song about my mother [Lied von meiner Mutter], fro
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Ang Lee On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Bruce Forsyth On stage, I think I'm 35. Working takes over my whole body and I become a younger man - that's why I won't stop.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Joan Didion On the whole, I don't want to think too much about why I write what I write. If I know what I'm doing ... I can't do it.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Abraham Pais Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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