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• I grew up around the pool with my sisters. Both of my sisters swam. I was always there. So I thought, why not? My mom put us in the water for water safety, so we were comfortable in the water in case anything ever happened. I learned that way, and started liking it more and more.

  Michael Phelps

  Mom, Safety, Water

  Source: www.parenting.com

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• Why not say it? I'm bursting out of my cocoon. It was all too nice in the past - it never knocked anyone out. But last year... my first opening night at the Met - I looked out and heard all that cheering... for me... And I loved it.

  Benita Valente

  Art, Cheer, Nice

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• If you must kill English officials, why not kill me instead?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Language, Kill Me, Englishmen

  Mahatma Gandhi (1971). “Collected Works”

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• Why shouldn’t we experience heartbreak? Through those doorways God is opening up ways of fellowship with His Son. Most of us collapse at the first grip of pain. We sit down at the door of God’s purpose and enter a slow death through self-pity. And all the so-called Christian sympathy of others helps us to our deathbed. But God will not. He comes with the grip of the pierced hand of His Son, as if to say, “Enter into fellowship with Me; arise and shine.” If God can accomplish His purposes in this world through a broken heart, then why not thank Him for breaking yours?

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Pain, Heart

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.67, Discovery House

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• I have an idea I want to test, for combining old peoples homes and orphanages. Old people are lonely without children, children are lonely without parents. Why not bring them together?

  Zhou Xun

  Lonely, Children, Home

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• The dream you are living is your creation. It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
  You have the power to create hell, and you have the power to create heaven.
  Why not dream a different dream? Why not use your mind, your imagination, and your emotions to dream heaven?

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Dream, Reality, Imagination

  "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)". Book by Miguel Angel Ruiz, 1997.

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• You may say, "Oh, no. You can't touch a traditional recipe." But we ask: why can't you? Back in 1350, a vinaigrette was a stew, so we ask, why not? This can be applied to any kind of cooking, and that's the shocking part of it. It kind of bends all the traditions. It's a good thing.

  Ferran Adria

  Cooking, Recipes, May

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• Here's the thing: You rescue us every day in small, quiet ways, so why not in this way? Let us into your mystery, tell us how you would like to be loved, show us how to see you, really see you.

  Chris Abani

  Way, Mystery, Quiet

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• For a young man, sleep is a sure solvent of distress. There whirls not for him in the night any so hideous phantasmagoria as will not become, in the clarity of the next morning, a spruce procession for him to lead. Brief the vague horror of his awakening; memory sweeps back to him, and he sees nothing dreadful after all. "Why not?" is the sun's bright message to him, and "Why not indeed?" his answer.

  Max Beerbohm

  Morning, Memories, Sleep

  Max Beerbohm (2010). “Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story”, p.40, The Floating Press

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• Very few people want to hear the truth. Bogie was like that, my mother was like that, and I'm like that. I believe in the truth, and I believe in saying what you think. Why not? Do you have to go around whispering all the time or playing a game with people? I just don't believe in that. So I'm not the most adored person on the face of the earth.

  Lauren Bacall

  Mother, Believe, Thinking

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• Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child's? If this were then subjected to an appropriate course of education one would obtain the adult brain.

  Alan Turing

  Children, Brain, Mind

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• When painting portraits a lot of people say, 'Why not get a photograph of the person?' Photography is wonderful and it is an art form in itself, but... my portrait is a culmination of elements... a truer image of a person than just the 'click' of a snapshot.

  Jamie Wyeth

  Photography, Art, People

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• We believe in peace. We strongly believe in freedom. Where we see suffering we will help. And rather than try to offset a nation, why not join nations together to achieve kind of big objectives?

  George W. Bush

  Believe, Suffering, Trying

  "An Exclusive Interview With President Bush". Interview with Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. September 23, 2003.

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• I like the idea of people having romantic tendencies towards a place they don't know that well. I think it's great. Why not? My dad's view of New York is very similar to Americans' when they talk about Ireland.

  Chris O'Dowd

  New York, Dad, Thinking

  "Chris O'Dowd on the Genius of Christopher Guest, Working with James Franco, and Grafting". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. April 17, 2014.

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• I have a horror of the word 'flesh', which has become so shopworn.Why not 'meat'whilethey're about it? What I like is skin, a young girl's skin that is pink and shows that she has a good circulation.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Girl, Skins, Meat

  Quoted in Jean Renoir Renoir, My Father (translated by R and D Weaver,1962).

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• My poor fellow, why not carry a watch?

  Herbert Beerbohm Tree

  Watches, Poor, Fellows

  To a man in the street, carrying a grandfather clock, in Hesketh Pearson 'Beerbohm Tree' (1956) ch. 12

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• Men use to reason with themselves: It will not always be health, let us lay up for sickness; it will not always be youth, for age; and why not, saith St. Paul, it will not alway be this life, nor alway present life, lay up for yourselves against the life to come.

  Lancelot Andrewes

  Men, Age, Use

  Lancelot Andrewes (2008). “Ninety-Six Sermons by the Right Honourable and Reverend Father in God, Lancelot Andrewes, Sometime Lord Bishop of Winchester, Vol. V”, p.48, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Lawyers rarely test their power, or the power they promote, against this simple pragmatic question: "Will it do good?" When challenged about the expanding reach of the law, the lawyer answers, "Why not?

  Lawrence Lessig

  Simple, Law, Answers

  Lawrence Lessig (2004). “Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity”, p.306, Penguin

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• Look for foods that create beauty from the inside out. Instead of coating yourself in chemical laden beauty products, why not try to get healthy skin from the foods you eat.

  David Wolfe

  Healthy, Trying, Skins

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• All solutions are temporary, so why not go for duct tape?

  Garrison Keillor

  Tape, Solutions, Temporary

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• Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I want.

  Kevin Spacey

  Beverly Hills, Want, Kind

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• I think when you wear the brand anyway, why not go out and try to promote it and make it as cool as you can? The fact that I can continue to do what I've always done and kind of become the face of that brand is to me, kind of just makes sense. It doesn't make sense not to do it I guess.

  Jason Aldean

  Thinking, Trying, Done

  "Jason Aldean: At my show, 'you're going to have a good time". Interview with Jacque Wilson, www.cnn.com. May 22, 2012.

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• In real life people fart, in the movies, people don't. Why not? Farts are a repressed minority. The mouth gets to say all kinds of things, but the other place is supposed to keep quiet. But maybe our lower colons have something interesting to say. Maybe we should listen to them. Farts are human, more human than a lot of people I know. I think we should bring them out of the water closet and into the parlor.

  Mel Brooks

  Real, Thinking, People

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• I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be painted words on canvas?

  John Baldessari

  Definitions, Normal, Painting

  Interview with David Salle, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 9, 2013.

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• If long hitting is the thing that causes the spectators to whistle through their teeth in wonderment, why not play tournaments up and down an expansive stadium?

  Robert Harris

  Golf, Play, Long

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