Why Not Quotes - Page 19

• If you're white, and you really want to help change things, why not start with yourself?

  Michael Moore

  White, Want, Helping

  Michael Moore (2004). “Stupid White Men: And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!”

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• Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'

  Henry Miller

  Damage Is Done, Joy, Asking

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, p.172, New Directions Publishing

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• I want to wear skinny jeans when I'm in my 70s. Why not? Who cares?

  Ewan McGregor

  Jeans, Who Cares, Want

  "Ewan McGregor interview: Mr Sunshine vs the apocalypse". Interview with Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2011.

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• I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?

  Audre Lorde

  Literature, Sexuality, Energizing

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• I think a woman's body is so much more sensual than a man's. I'm not saying strip off all your clothes, but there are certain photos I like people taking of me, where I'm comfortable. As long as it's tasteful, why not?

  Lindsay Lohan

  Men, Thinking, Clothes

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• Look, Israel doesn't intend to introduce nuclear weapons, but if people are afraid that we have them, why not? It's a deterrent.

  Shimon Peres

  Israel, People, Weapons

  "Shimon Peres: what you need to know about Israel's outgoing president" by Peter Beaumont, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2014.

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• Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Creativity

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• For as long as there's anyone to ask 'Why?' the answer will always be, 'Why not?

  Vera Nazarian

  Long, Answers, Asks

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• aloud she said why not you ray you were involed in this as much as the resst of uswhy is it that bud never tried to do anything to you ?his armed tighted around her.'he knew the worst thing for me was a world without you

  Lois Duncan

  Rays, Bud, World

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• I'm ruined beyond repair, is what I fear...And if so, in time we'd both be wretched and bitter." "I know people can be mended. Not all, and some more immediately than others. But some can be. I don't see why not you." "Why not me?

  Charles Frazier

  People, Bitter, Ruined

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• The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are chains. I have a terror of losing my freedom. Free, without ties, unpossessed by any possessions, free to do as one will, to go at a moment's notice wherever the fancy may suggest--it is good. But so is this place. Might it not be better? To gain freedom one sacrifices something [...] and all that these things and people signify. One sacrifices something--for a greater gain in knowledge, in understanding, in intensified living? I sometimes wonder.

  Aldous Huxley

  Sacrifice, Roots, Ties

  Aldous Huxley (1954). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point”

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• There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Football, Mother, Gambling

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• Christmas shopping! I can do all my Christmas shopping here! I know March is a bit early, but why not be organized? And then when Christmas arrives I won't have to go near the horrible Christmas crowds.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Shopping, Crowds, March

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• In various European countries, it is increasingly common for young men to live with their parents into their 30s and even longer. Why not? In the welfare state, there is no shame in doing so.

  Dennis Prager

  Country, Men, Parent

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• Many of us grew up with a kind of puritanism against shopping. But shopping can be much more than how it is cast. If you are bored or you have problems, it can be a way of lifting your spirits, by doing something light and superficial. Why not?

  Miuccia Prada

  Light, Shopping, Bored

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Life is full of risks anyway; why not take them?

  Lindsay Lohan

  Inspirational, Success, Humor

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?

  Lisa Loeb

  Birthday, Pie, Cake

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• The law exists for a reason. There is a dominant American culture that people used to want to preserve. That's going by the wayside, too. But if it's now okay for an illegal alien to practice law in California, then can anybody else who's broken the law get a law license? And if not, why not?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Law, Practice, California

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• One appreciates that daily life is really good when one wakes from a horrible dream, or when one takes the first outing after a sickness. Why not realize it now?

  William Lyon Phelps

  Dream, Appreciation, Appreciate

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• In many cultures it is customary to answer that God created the universe out of nothing. But this is mere temporizing. If we wish courageously to pursue the question, we must, of course ask next where God comes from? And if we decide this to be unanswerable, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always existed?

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Religion, Wish

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• We should not open our mouths too hastily upon approaching God. On the contrary, we first must ask God to show us what and how to pray before we make our request known to Him. Have we not consumed a great deal of time in the past asking for what we wanted? Why not now ask for what God wants?

  Watchman Nee

  Prayer, Past, Asking

  "The Spiritual Man".

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• Eh Bien you like this sacred pig of a country?" asked Marco. "Why not? I like it anywhere. It's all the same, in France you are paid badly and live well; here you are paid well and live badly.

  John Dos Passos

  Country, Pigs, Immigration

  John Dos Passos (2003). “Manhattan Transfer: A Novel”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the clouds and the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?

  Tecumseh

  Country, Children, Sea

  Speech to William Henry Harrison, Vincennes, Indiana Territory, 14 Aug. 1810

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• If you have ability in a certain area, why not capitalize on it and improve it and use it?

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Sports, Life And Love

  Wilt Chamberlain, David Shaw (1973). “Wilt: Just Like Any Other 7-Foot Black Millionaire who Lives Next Door”

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• Why not? After all, it belongs to him.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Bad Ass, Famous Last Words, Dying Last Words

  "Fictional character: Henri Verdoux". "Monsieur Verdoux", 1947.

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