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Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species?
‐‐ Asa Gray -
Why is it our business whether Sarah Palin returned to her job as governor three days after her son was born, or three months? Is there a right answer?
‐‐ Susan Estrich -
Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn't say I lived in a ghetto; I'd say I lived in the 'hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.
‐‐ Eminem -
Why is it so important for you to give back? I honestly feel like it's our responsibility as citizens of the world to ground ourselves in selflessness and all do our part.
‐‐ Solange Knowles -
Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.
‐‐ August Strindberg -
Why is it so unutterably beneficial, the thought that someone besides myself knows me?
‐‐ Karen Horney -
Why is it so weird that somebody didn't recognize me?... The fact is that whenever I meet somebody, I say, 'Nice to meet you. I'm Julia.'
‐‐ Julia Roberts -
Why is it such a big deal what I'm swimming?
‐‐ Michael Phelps -
Why is it surprising that scientists might have long hair and wear cowboy boots? In fields like neuroscience, where the events you are recording are so minute, I suspect scientists cultivate a boring, reliable image. A scientist with a reputation for flamboyance might be suspect.
‐‐ Steven Pinker -
Why is it that a large majority of Hindus do not inter-dine and do not inter-marry? Why is it that your cause is not popular? There can be only one answer to this question, and it is that inter-dining and inter-marriage are repugnant to the beliefs and dogmas which the Hindus regard as sacred.
‐‐ B. R. Ambedkar -
Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?
‐‐ Joyce Meyer -
Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
‐‐ Ernest Gaines -
Why is it that big companies fail when the technology changes? It happens in every industry, so what's the pattern? What are they all doing wrong?
‐‐ Jesse Schell -
Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.
‐‐ Roger Ebert -
Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.
‐‐ John Cornyn -
Why is it that here in the United States we have such difficulty even imagining a different sort of society from the one whose dysfunctions and inequalities trouble us so?
‐‐ Tony Judt -
Why is it that I notice so many brilliant scientists using Macs for their personal computers; why does the Lawrence Livermore & Berkeley Labs buy millions of dollars worth of Macs?
‐‐ Lene Hau -
Why is it that if you hit a shot to within a tenth of an inch of the hole, it's a great shot, but if it goes in, it's luck?
‐‐ David L. Wolper -
Why is it that if you take advantage of a corporate tax break you're a smart businessman, but if you take advantage of something so you don't go hungry, you're a moocher?
‐‐ Jon Stewart -
Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?
‐‐ Bell Hooks -
Why is it that men who can go through severe accidents, air raids, and any other major crisis always seems to think that they are at death's door when they have a simple head cold?
‐‐ Shirley Booth -
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read?
‐‐ Naveen Jain -
Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
‐‐ Yevgeny Yevtushenko -
Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in and around the ocean, and they've personally seen the beauty, the fragility, and even the degradation of our planet's blue heart.
‐‐ Sylvia Earle -
Why is it that the hot chicks never can sing?
‐‐ Tommy Lee -
Why is it that the king can do no wrong? This shows they do not regard the king as being a human. But the king can do wrong.
‐‐ Bhumibol Adulyadej -
Why is it that the very people who have fought so hard and so long for the simple entitlement to love whom they choose to love are the very ones denied that right by those who routinely take their vows for granted?
‐‐ John Ridley -
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
‐‐ Mark Twain -
Why is it that when we get older, we get more fearful?
‐‐ Sandra Bullock -
Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?
‐‐ Lily Tomlin -
Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?
‐‐ Igor Stravinsky -
Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?
‐‐ Jacques Derrida -
Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses?
‐‐ G. Gordon Liddy -
Why is it there are so many nice guys interested in baseball? Not me, I was a real bastard when I played.
‐‐ Burleigh Grimes -
Why is it trivia? People call it trivia because they know nothing and they are embarrassed about it.
‐‐ Robbie Coltrane -
Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
‐‐ Edmund H. North -
Why is it we want one car to do everything?
‐‐ Franz von Holzhausen -
Why is it when we have a bad experience with a product, we assume it is us, but a bad experience with food, we blame the food?!
‐‐ Jonathan Ive -
Why is it when you're dieting, you crave everything?
‐‐ Kim Kardashian -
Why is it you always meet people when you look your worst?
‐‐ Marilyn Monroe -
Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk -
Why is Kris Jenner a powerhouse? Because some part of us confuses fame and infamy, too. If she really bothered us half as much as we claim she does, we'd look away and stop feeding her empire.
‐‐ Koren Zailckas -
Why is marriage the pinnacle for everyone? People get married for the wrong reasons. We need to start looking at different packages, whether it's living together, or being with six partners, or dedicating your life to taking care of flowers.
‐‐ Sandra Bullock -
Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?
‐‐ Mary Wollstonecraft -
Why is partying and having a good time bad?
‐‐ Tara Reid -
Why is playing football in Europe considered the pinnacle of our game, yet in other spheres of life, that same phrase - 'being in Europe' - is dismissed with suspicion?
‐‐ Gordon Brown -
Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
‐‐ Bertrand Russell -
Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?
‐‐ Mary Astell
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