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Why shouldn't I fly from New York to Paris? I have more than four years of aviation behind me. I've barnstormed over half of the 48 states. I've flown my mail through the worst of nights.
‐‐ Charles Lindbergh -
Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.
‐‐ Saul Williams -
Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
‐‐ Mark Twain -
Why shouldn't we pitch to Babe Ruth? We pitch to better hitters in the National League.
‐‐ John McGraw -
Why sit on your butt watching 'Jersey Shore' when you can learn to paint a beautiful picture?
‐‐ Leven Rambin -
Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.
‐‐ Katharine Hepburn -
Why some gonococcal strains are more resistant than others is still not clear.
‐‐ Gerhard Domagk -
Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.
‐‐ Jimmy Breslin -
Why spend money on movies when you can spend it on gas? Or dry cleaning? Or groceries?
‐‐ Andre Leon Talley -
Why stop now when I'm just getting the hang of it?
‐‐ Robert Goulet -
Why stress tomorrow when you can stress today?
‐‐ Douglas Wilson -
Why take notes? The obvious reason is to remember. Visual note-taking translates what we hear into pictures that give context, color, and meaning. By adding symbols, visual metaphors, likenesses of people, and room layouts, we add several dimensions.
‐‐ Tom Wujec -
Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
‐‐ Bobby Knight -
Why talk when you can paint?
‐‐ Milton Avery -
Why the Christian life is so difficult to many is because they have a divided heart. They are double-minded, which makes them unstable in all their ways.
‐‐ Ellen G. White -
Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That's baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, 'I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.'
‐‐ Ernie Harwell -
Why the heck do we allow the media to ever tell us someone is gross? It makes me so mad. 99% of the world has flaws.
‐‐ Shantel VanSanten -
Why the hell can't people just write nice happy stories about people having happy sex? That's what I want, and I bet a whole bunch of other people want it too.
‐‐ Phil Foglio -
Why the hell do we make such a big deal out of things that shouldn't be a big deal?
‐‐ Neil Cavuto -
Why there aren't people out there willing to have fun playing rock 'n' roll. I just don't get it.
‐‐ Joan Jett -
Why there is one body in our System qualified to give light and heat to all the rest, I know no reason but because the Author of the System thought it convenient; and why there is but one body of this kind, I know no reason, but because one was sufficient to warm and enlighten all the rest.
‐‐ Isaac Newton -
Why they vote for me is irrelevant, but if they do, they're in safe hands.
‐‐ Pim Fortuyn -
Why thrust your kid into that? You try to protect them from all the bad people out there.
‐‐ John Aniston -
Why trip off some random person in Idaho that doesn't feel my vibe? Like, no thank you. Stay in your life; I'll stay in mine.
‐‐ Zendaya -
Why waltz with a guy for 10 rounds if you can knock him out in one?
‐‐ Rocky Marciano -
Why was Barack Obama attractive to people in 2008? If you think about Barack Obama, there's all this anxiety about society, just kind of wracked by centripetal forces - the idea that the center's not holding, no one can talk to each other, the idea of a political system that's broken.
‐‐ Rick Perlstein -
Why was I born with such contemporaries?
‐‐ Oscar Wilde -
Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln -
Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.
‐‐ Barry Eichengreen -
Why wasn't Michelle Obama, on October 1st, at the computer with her family signing up for Obamacare, or Jay Carney? They have their own gold-plated health care plan.
‐‐ Sean Duffy -
Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
‐‐ Bill Watterson -
Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?
‐‐ David Baldacci -
Why watch someone kissing when people really close their eyes when they kiss?
‐‐ John Hughes -
Why we cannot build a system like El Al to be proactive. Why do we have only to react? The shoe bomber - reaction? Take off your shoes. The Nigerian - the body scanner is a result of the Nigerian guy.
‐‐ Isaac Yeffet -
Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
‐‐ John Burroughs -
Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings.
‐‐ John Thorn -
Why wear pants when you can wear a muumuu?
‐‐ Beth Ditto -
Why, when I was a child, I didn't say, as most children do, that I was going to become an actress. I felt that I was an actress and no one could have convinced me that I wasn't!
‐‐ Antoinette Perry -
Why? Will no man ever do something without a why? Just like that? For the hell of it?
‐‐ Michael Cacoyannis -
Why work when you can fill out a few forms and get paid for doing nothing?
‐‐ Alan Sugar -
Why would a lazy guy become a parent of five? Then again, why would creative people who inherently don't like change and criticism become writers, actors, or comedians? There's something about this process. I joke about it: My kids have made me a better person, and I only need, like, 34 more of them to be a really good guy.
‐‐ Jim Gaffigan -
Why would a novel - which is all about the inward processes of people's developing feelings and developing relationships - why would you be able to portray that in pictures with as few words as possible, which is what the best films are?
‐‐ Sebastian Faulks -
Why would any parent want their kid on their health-care plan when they are 26? Parents want their kids to grow up and take care of themselves. A 26-year-old is an adult.
‐‐ Michele Bachmann -
Why would anybody not own a gun?
‐‐ Joe Manchin -
Why would anyone ever tell anything personal to a journalist?
‐‐ Liam Neeson -
Why would anyone expect Tyson to come out smarter? He went to prison for four years, not Princeton.
‐‐ Lou Duva -
Why would anyone get married and have babies? That's the dumbest idea I've ever heard in my life. Or the scariest thing I've ever heard in my life.
‐‐ Aziz Ansari -
Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.
‐‐ James Hall -
Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It's like stealing a two-year-old.
‐‐ Erma Bombeck
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