Quotes with why

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  • C. Thomas Howell Once you really understand your role... that's why I think actors get lost in a series. Everybody wants to be the quarterback or the game-winning wide receiver. I've been around long enough and done enough stuff to where I don't feel that way. I just want to do what I do as well as possible.
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  • Garrison Keillor One day Donald Trump will discover that he is owned by Lutheran Brotherhood and must re negotiate his debt load with a committee of silent Norwegians who don't understand why anyone would pay more than $120.00 for a suit.
    Garrison Keillor
    American humoristic writer (1942 - )
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  • Beilby Porteus One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileg'd To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime. Ah! why will kings forget that they are men, And men that they are brethren?
    Beilby Porteus
    English Bishop and reformer (1731 - 1809)
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  • Carla Hall One of my early childhood memories was my grandmother always having a bowl of Nestle chocolate bars at her house. My sister and I would argue over who could eat the chocolate bars. Looking back, I don't know why we just didn't share. We could have split them.
    Carla Hall
    American chef and television personality (1964 - )
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  • Henry Miller One of the few reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of reacting, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Byron Howard One of the magical things about these anthropomorphic animal movies is that we can take things that are so common in our own world that we deal with, like the DMV, or moving to a new city, or our family, and show you a mirror image of those things, reflected in a whole new way. That's why animals are great.
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz One person is never as stupid as a group of people. That's why they have lynch mobs, not lynch individuals.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • G. Emmons One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.
    G. Emmons
     
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  • Benny Goodman One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn't keep on, you'll find 'em. The obstacles are all there; there are a million of 'em.
    Benny Goodman
    American jazz clarinetist and bandleader (1909 - 1986)
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  • Marquis de Sade One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • E. Glasgow Only morons would ever think of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.
    E. Glasgow
     
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  • Albert J. Nock Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • C. S. Lewis Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.
    Source: The Screwtape Letters (1942)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Malcolm de Chazal Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.''
    Malcolm de Chazal
    French writer (1902 - 1981)
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  • Bruce Lipton Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the subconscious mind by just thinking about it. That's why the power of positive thinking will not work for most people. The subconscious mind is like a tape player. Until you change the tape, it will not change.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Caitlin Moran Over-eating is the addiction choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Bill Bixby Parents should watch what their children watch and not use TV as a babysitter. If a show is objectionable they should turn it OFF. They should write the president of the network and tell him they are never going to watch that program again and why.
    Bill Bixby
    American actor, director and producer (1934 - 1993)
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  • John Locke Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Grant Hill Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get older, you understand and you appreciate it.
    Grant Hill
     
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