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Why does the world dislike Russia? I do not think that we are unloved or considered to be ignorant.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin -
Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema.
‐‐ Andrzej Wajda -
Why does this person who is sitting behind a desk and never watches cartoons is arguing about what cartoons should be like. Its so creepy realizing that this person is a lunatic.
‐‐ Jhonen Vasquez -
Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
‐‐ Jonathan Safran Foer -
Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that?
‐‐ Abbi Jacobson -
Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn't matter what that pattern is, whether you have established a pattern for yourself or it has been established for you.
‐‐ Jiddu Krishnamurti -
Why doesn't anyone remember that the Palestinians already had four real opportunities to establish their state, yet each time they preferred to revert to terrorism?
‐‐ Yair Lapid -
Why doesn't Apple stop for a year and make medical devices? When people talk about technology, that's where I start to get a little hot under the collar because I know that it's the key to solving some of the world's biggest problems. Having a faster, thinner telephone is not one of the world's biggest problems.
‐‐ Luke Perry -
Why doesn't that Devil take me with him? It would be much better with him than it is here.
‐‐ Eva Braun -
Why don't Jews drink? It interferes with their suffering.
‐‐ Henny Youngman -
Why don't people take the trouble to let you know that they are alive? It is so much more important. The whole system is wrong. No sooner do I die, than all the flowers I have ever longed for in life pour in.
‐‐ Elizabeth Bibesco -
Why don't the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided.
‐‐ Trent Reznor -
Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did.
‐‐ Josh McDowell -
Why don't they go ahead and change the name of the White House to the West House. They want to do away with the heritage of White Settlement and destroy the history of White Settlement.
‐‐ Alan Price -
Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.
‐‐ Steven Wright -
Why don't we actually fight for a woman's right even to complain about being beaten up. That is more important than driving. If a woman is beaten, they are told to go back to their homes - their fathers, husbands, brothers - to be beaten up again and locked up in the house.
‐‐ Basmah bint Saud -
Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.
‐‐ Paul Wellstone -
Why don't we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.
‐‐ Al Franken -
Why don't we have enough teachers of math and science in the public schools? One answer is well, if they knew the subject well, they'd also know enough to work for Google or Goldman Sachs or God knows where.
‐‐ James Harris Simons -
Why don't we hear more about and from Asians when it comes to race in America? Are Asians the new Invisible Man - there but not there? In some ways, yeah. Blacks and whites are always carping about the metrics of racism. And any conversation about immigration reform is immediately flipped into a referendum on Hispanics.
‐‐ John Ridley -
Why don't we stop the stimulus spending? There's still about $400 billion or $500 billion of the stimulus plan that has not been spent. Why don't we stop it? It's not working.
‐‐ John Boehner -
Why don't women have respect for themselves nowadays? What happen to the woman who learned her grandmama's recipes and made her man sweet potato pie? I tell you, they don't make 'em like they used to. Will my real women stand up, please?
‐‐ Brandon T. Jackson -
Why don't you bring your face up here and let me punch it? Then you can tell me (if I'm stronger).
‐‐ Shaquille O'Neal -
Why don't you compare me to Sally Jessy Raphael?
‐‐ Trisha Goddard -
Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.
‐‐ P. G. Wodehouse -
Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?
‐‐ Robert Benchley -
Why don't you put that in the headline: 'He Only Did Three With Doris!' Set a lot of people straight.
‐‐ Rock Hudson -
Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best days are still out in front of you.
‐‐ Joel Osteen -
Why don't you talk, and go straight, and let all be well?
‐‐ Black Kettle -
Why e-mail a full emotional statement when, instead, you can text a totally insignificant and ambiguous half-considered phrase?
‐‐ Jami Attenberg -
Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw -
Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
‐‐ Charles Frohman -
Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas anticipation of a consequence enlarges our understanding of what is happening.
‐‐ Roger Rosenblatt -
Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organise themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive?
‐‐ Robert M. Pirsig -
Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand.
‐‐ John Burns -
Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?
‐‐ Carrie Snow -
Why give a million dollars to someone if they have not proved that they can make a million dollars?
‐‐ Carmen Busquets -
Why give chemotherapy or even antibiotics to people with end-stage Alzheimer's disease? Keep them pain free and clean, love them but don't automatically try to get the last technology-produced breath from them. Start a preschool program instead or do something about the atrocious state of obesity in our children.
‐‐ Richard Lamm -
Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?
‐‐ Ingrid Newkirk -
Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end.
‐‐ Graeme Le Saux -
Why go on vacation when work is so much more fun.
‐‐ Taylor Hawkins -
Why go somewhere else and start up all over again?
‐‐ John Baldacci -
Why go through life feeling cheated? It does nothing but make you bitter.
‐‐ Margaret Cho -
Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?
‐‐ Ray Bradbury -
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
‐‐ Natalie Clifford Barney -
Why has everything got to be about feelings these days? In the old days, no one knew what anyone was feeling and, what's more, they weren't expected to.
‐‐ Arabella Weir -
Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.
‐‐ Albrecht Durer -
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
‐‐ Alexander Hamilton -
Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?
‐‐ Gale Norton
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