Quotes with why

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  • Jackie Mason I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.
    Jackie Mason
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1928 - 2021)
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  • Alberto Giacometti I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do.
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • William Somerset Maugham I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Coco Chanel I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.
    Coco Chanel
    French couturier (1883 - 1971)
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  • Andy Rooney I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • A. N. Wilson I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Jeanette Winterson I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
    (2004)
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • William S. Burroughs I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question ''Why did you start using narcotics in the first place?'' should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Bruce Conner I had a tremendous horror of going into the Army. That is probably why I went to college for so long.
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Rose F. Kennedy I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be happy, not sad. Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?
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  • Harlan Miller I learned why they're called wonder drugs - you wonder what they'll do to you.
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  • Robert E. Lee I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.
    Robert E. Lee
    American legeraanvoerder (1807 - 1870)
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  • Avi Arad I love Daredevil. I thought it was enjoyable. Okay? There were critical issues with it, and that's why I wear black, some people wear red - we are entitled to our opinions.
    Avi Arad
    Israeli-American businessman (1948 - )
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  • Arnold Schoenberg I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.
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  • David Bissonette I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.
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  • Kenneth Olsen I see no reason why anyone would want a computer in their home.
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  • Art Linkletter I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me.
    Art Linkletter
    Canadian-born American radio and television personality (1912 - 2010)
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  • Langston Hughes I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
    Langston Hughes
    American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright and columnist (1901 - 1967)
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  • Antoine Fuqua I take them seriously but I try not to read them. I take them personally, that's why I don't read them. I think people are lying when they say they don't care, that's not true. I take them personally.
    Antoine Fuqua
    American film director and producer (1966 - )
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