Quotes with why

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  • Frank Dane Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.
    Frank Dane
    British actor
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice?
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Art Buchwald So far things are going my way. I am known in the hospice as The Man Who Wouldn't Die. I don't know if this is true or not, but I think some people, not many, are starting to wonder why I'm still around.
    Art Buchwald
    American humorist (1925 - 2007)
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali So this is why I'm always say happy that somebody mentions Rwanda, because behind Rwanda, we have Africa.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Ben Shapiro Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions of income inequality, after all, aren't about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy?
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Some men see things as they are and say, ''Why?'' I of dream things that never were, and say, ''Why not?''
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Alain de Botton Some of the reason why we marry the wrong people is that we don't really understand ourselves.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Bode Miller Some people say I make mistakes, I just say that in fact this is the secret of enjoying life. I hate monotony. Why don't they leave me freedom of choice? People want to impose choices which aren't necessarily mine. That's the mistake people make.
    Source: Interview with Gazzetta dello Sport, 16 Feb. 2006 [1]
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • William Feather Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.
    William Feather
    American writer, businessman (1889 - 1981)
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  • Boman Irani Sometime you go out and you wonder why these people are standing in the rain, and then you realize that years ago you were a fan, too. I, too, was chased by cops for watching my favourite celebrities.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Charles M. Schultz Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.
    Charles M. Schultz
    American cartoonist (1922 - 2000)
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  • Ben Katchor Sometimes I make things that people have very strong responses to. Whether that's art, I don't know. That's one of those words that doesn't mean anything. It's why I don't just use words.
    Ben Katchor
    American cartoonist and illustrator (1951 - )
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  • Art Linkletter Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn marijuana when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant.
    Art Linkletter
    Canadian-born American radio and television personality (1912 - 2010)
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  • Brooke Elliott Sometimes someone that is the 'villain' in your life, when you look deeper and you think of what their issues are and why they behave like that and where they came from - they become less of a villain and more of someone that you can understand.
    Brooke Elliott
    American actress and singer (1974 - )
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  • Billy Corgan Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Walt Whitman Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Greg Anderson Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it.
    Greg Anderson
    American author (1947 - )
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