Why Not Quotes - Page 24

• I always say to people when I'm trying to get something going, bringing on other producers or other directors, "You can think of 95 reasons why not to make a movie. You've got to address why you want to make the movie and get it done. Just do it." I tend to live by that rule.

  Ridley Scott

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Being on the road, the Internet enables me to interact with people in some way. It's not so much interacting with my fans - it's about doing something with what I have. I have my camera and I have my computer, and if I have some spare time, rather than watching some mindless bullshit pop-idol program on TV, why not show people my pictures and try and discuss things that I feel are important?

  Lily Allen

  Idols, People, Bullshit

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, music.avclub.com. February 14, 2007.

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• Modern brain-scan technology has revealed that each person shapes a completely unique brain. Other studies have documented the amazing regenerative ability of the brain, which can be reshaped by the power of your mind to bring you the world you desire. Knowing that, the obvious question arose: Why not use your mind to create the brain you want, using conscious choice?

  Deepak Chopra

  Unique, Technology, Knowing

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• I'm delighted that gay people want to get married and I say why not! It's nobody's business and I would happily give my blessing.

  Iris Apfel

  Gay, Blessing, People

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• I like looking at the finger of God. Why it takes one and not another, why this one or that one, why now or why then. The finger of God is always on us. When you get older and you see your friends dying around you, you say "Why not me?" That machine is always there.

  Christian Boltanski

  Dying, Machines, Why Now

  "To die is very strange". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. March 12, 2014.

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• He leaned against the door frame, ignoring the kick of adrenaline the sight of her produced. He wondered why, not for the first time. Isabelle used her beauty like she used her whip, but Clary didn't know she was beautiful at all. Maybe that was why.

  Cassandra Clare

  Beautiful, Sight, Doors

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.284, Simon and Schuster

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• I saw that Donald Trump is selling his penthouse suite at the Trump Park Avenue building here in New York City for $21 million. When asked why he's selling it now, Trump said 'Hey, Americans seem to be buying everything else I'm selling, so why not strike while the iron's hot.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  New York, Cities, Iron

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• Rock & roll is so great, people should start dying for it. You don't understand. The music gave you back your beat so you could dream...The people just have to die for the music. People are dying for everything else, so why not for music? Die for it. Isn't it pretty? Wouldn't you die for something pretty?

  Lou Reed

  Dream, Rocks, People

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• Why not coincidentally? From religion comes hope for the future and a sense of societal obligation (i.e., a non-hedonistic worldview). No faith, no hope. No hope for the future, no sense of obligation - hence, no children.

  Don Feder

  Children, No Hope, Hope For The Future

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• Everyone seems to have internalized the fact that you can say anything you want at a televised debate, and only a tiny fraction of the audience will ever see a fact-check. So why not claim the moon is square?

  Ted Cruz

  Moon, Squares, Say Anything

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• The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books, or write opinion pieces about what they think of Neil Young, or why they quit watching ER or whatever. And because of that, I think there's a lot of people who write about my books with the premise of, "Why this guy? Why not me?"

  Chuck Klosterman

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• Why not make a habit of approaching life in the right spirit, joyously, expectantly, and with absolute faith that only the very best is for you?

  Eileen Caddy

  Spirit, Habit, Approaching Life

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• With my two brothers, Jean-Marie and Joel, I wrote a two-page story and wanted to make some kind of movie. We met a French production company, called Why Not?, and the first name we put on the list was Ken Loach. It was a dream for all of us. So, we tried and we met Ken and Paul Laverty, his writer, and they read the two pages and were inspired by that to do something. Paul had the freedom to do his own story - and he wrote his own story, which is better than the one we'd written.

  Eric Cantona

  Dream, Brother, Names

  "Looking For Eric - Eric Cantona interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• A living faith is always on trial; we call it faith for that reason. When I read in some alarmist book that the Christian faith is now on trial, or "at the crossroads," my impulse is to answer, Why Not? Does anybody know a time when the Christian faith was not on trial, or when the Christian life was a simple walkover, with neither principalities nor powers to dispute its advance?

  John Edgar Park

  Christian, Book, Simple

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• If you love getting gifts - and who doesn't - then why not accept, with gratitude, the greatest gift there is: the present moment.

  Guy Finley

  Gratitude, Moments, Accepting

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Dec 20, 2013

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• There's no need to be tragic or destroy yourself or jump off a cliff. That's no longer the paradigm I wish to follow, or that anyone should follow. It is not necessary to be tragic. It's bullshit that women can't have it all. Why not? Other people do.

  Mary Harron

  People, Bullshit, Wish

  Interview with Anisse Gross, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• People say 'Why would you learn Dutch? Nobody speaks it. Why not French?' Even the Dutch say that to me! I say because I want to live here, I think it's only common courtesy that I speak the language.

  Anthony Geary

  Thinking, People, Want

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• Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

  Emma ch. 30 (1816)

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• Some men see what is, and ask 'Why?' I see what might be, and ask 'Why Not?'

  Robert Kennedy

  Men, Might, Asks

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• I have the strangest time to get cast in anything. 'Ghost' was the same thing. Six months I had to wait for them to decide they had seen everybody possible. Why not? What limits me? I'm black? Oh, am I black?

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Waiting, Black, Six Months

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• I can't think of one person who is on TV who isn't vain. It's the nature of the beast. If you are on TV then you have a vanity, for sure. Just admit it! Why not?

  Simon Cowell

  Thinking, Vanity, Tvs

  "YES I use Botox, NO I am not gay: Simon Cowell's frankest interview" by Jenny Johnston, www.dailymail.co.uk. November 17, 2007.

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• I love the musical form of books. It's a different way of doing things, it's very beautiful. You're able to sing things instead of saying them. So what the heck - why not do them?

  Ray Bradbury

  Beautiful, Book, Musical

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• I think that if I have a chance to go back, why not just go back all the way in history to the times of the pyramids or the Roman days? I think there are so many great historic times until now that I would like to get a little peek of those periods, rather than just 1984. Why limit yourself?

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Thinking, Pyramids, Way

  Source: guff.com

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• If millions of Americans choose to weigh in on the outcome of "American Idol" through text messages and the Web, then why not harness similar technological tools to encourage discourse on the political landscape?

  Ruzwana Bashir

  Idols, Political, Tools

  "Television Debates Are Antiquated" by Ruzwana Bashir, www.nytimes.com. October 2, 2012.

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• I think we can question whether degrees are antediluvian. Online learning has flexibility. Why not master courses in energy, writing, communications, and engineering and get a credential?

  Anant Agarwal

  Communication, Writing, Thinking

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