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why Quotes and Quotations
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Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President. Ben Affleck | top
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When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray? Ethel Barrymore | top
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Occasionally I do things against my inner voice, but you really should go for the thing that touches you most-even if you don't quite know why it does. Alan Bates | top
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Now I know why tigers eat their young. Al Capone | top
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I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around. Chuck Close | top
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Rome had Senators too, that's why it declined. Frank Dane | top
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There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it? Barbara Ehrenreich | top
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I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation. Charlotte Gainsbourg | top
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Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out. Natalie Goldberg | top
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There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can't provide health care to all its people. Christine Gregoire | top
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If you ask 20 different readers why they read, they will all be right. Teresa Nielsen Hayden | top
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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 | top
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Firemen can do almost everything. You already trust them in life-threatening situations; why not let them help you with your everyday problems, too? David Hunt | top
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Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself. Billy Joel | top
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I understand why so many Americans were angry when I was first discovered in Afghanistan. I realize many still are, but I hope in time that feeling will change. John Walker Lindh | top
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Any actor will tell you there's more of a schedule to doing a television show. That's why you'll notice a lot of big movie actors are doing television, and they'll tell you, it's because of the schedule. Jason Marsden | top
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I've had some interesting stuff happen to me - so why doesn't anyone ask me? Amanda Marshall | top
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We must agree to live in this world, with all that is unfair about it, without knowing why, if we wish to have a God in our lives. Fred Melamed | top
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That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution. Angela Merkel | top
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The reason people like to watch ball games is because they don't really know exactly what's going to happen from moment to moment. That's why you watch the entire thing. Isaac Mizrahi | top
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The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden. John Podhoretz | top
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How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence. Dennis Prager | top
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A feeling that was possibly generated by experiences in my previous work on cosmic rays; more likely it was inborn and was the reason why, as a young man, I went into the field of cosmic rays. Bruno Rossi | top
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Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary. Ed Royce | top
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If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long? Gloria Steinem | top