Quotes with why

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  • Bruce Sterling Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just a few large buildings and aircraft, it's not like D-Day and the Seige of Berlin.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Brion James Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.
    Brion James
    American actor (1945 - 1999)
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  • Oscar Wilde What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John Masefield What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt held in cohesion by unresting cells. Which work they know not why, which never halt, myself unwitting where their Master dwells?
    John Masefield
    English poet and writer (1878 - 1967)
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  • Buzz Aldrin What are you going to do with astronauts who first reach the surface of Mars and then turn around and rocket back home-ward? What are they going to do, write their memoirs? Would they go again? Having them repeat the voyage, in my view, is dim-witted. Why don't they stay there on Mars?
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Marilyn Monroe What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • Anthony Weiner What I am saying is, all health care has a problem with costs. Medicare is growing slower than the private insurance plans. Why? Because of their efficiency. They don't have to give money to shareholders. Why should be defending shareholders?
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Bono What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Beth Henley What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed.
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • Alain de Botton What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Barbara Coloroso What is important for kids to learn is that no matter how much money they have, earn, win, or inherit, they need to know how to spend it, how to save it, and how to give it to others in need. This is what handling money is about, and this is why we give kids an allowance.
    Barbara Coloroso
    American author
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  • Allen Tate What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • Barry Manilow What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.
    Barry Manilow
    American singer-songwriter, producer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Boris Pasternak What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, it was founded by Him on the Gospels.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Edith Evans When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man?
    Observer (30 september 1956)
    Edith Evans
    English actress (1888 - 1976)
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  • George Bernard Shaw When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Anthony Minghella When I became the chair of the British Film Institute, I didn't understand how much of my time would be taken up with trying to make a case for the British Film Institute: what it's for, why it exists, why it needs its money.
    Anthony Minghella
    British film director, playwright and screenwriter (1954 - 2008)
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  • Bart Stupak When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us.
    Bart Stupak
    American politician (1952 - )
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  • Billy Casper When I drive into Augusta and down Magnolia Lane, there's just a spirit and nostalgia about it that you experience nowhere else. Why? Because it's the same place every year.
    Billy Casper
    American professional golfer (1931 - )
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  • Bob Mould When I'm winning, winning, winning with a certain way why would I mess with that? When I realised there was lot to be gained from failing in some people's eyes, it made it all the more interesting!
    Bob Mould
    American musician (1960 - )
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