Why Not Quotes - Page 27

• Given the right set of circumstances any one of us could become dangerous - so why not show that in our programmes?

  Bryan Cranston

  Given, Dangerous, Circumstances

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• Why not be a man and fight like a man.

  Tito Ortiz

  Fighting, Men, Be A Man

  Source: punchdrunkgamer.com

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• Why have I been chosen to deliver the message of female intelligence and its divinity to a deaf world of males? I have asked my god that question and She answered, 'Hey, why not you Roseanne?' Indeed, why not each of us?

  Roseanne Barr

  Males, Female, Hey

  "12 Crazy Things Presidential Candidate Roseanne Barr Has Said About The United States" by Jordan Teicher, www.businessinsider.com. February 3, 2012.

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• I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

  John Barrymore

  Funny, Marriage, Thinking

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• I feel better in my body now than when I was 20. Why not?

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Feel Better, Body, Feels

  "The kiss of death" by Jon Henley, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2007.

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• Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with whatever you're doing, and let the worry go.

  Martha Beck

  Mean, Worry, Engagement

  "Stop Worrying! Anxiety-Busting Advice from Martha Beck" by Martha Beck, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2012.

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• Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Religious, Thought Provoking, Curiosity

  Isaiah Berlin (2013). “The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas”, p.2, Princeton University Press

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• If you're going to pick a book and you want to base a system of government around it, why not 'Harry Potter?'

  Lewis Black

  Book, Government, Potters

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• Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.

  Warren Buffett

  Success, Business, Investing

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• Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Dream, Time

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?

  Julian Casablancas

  Trying, Dozen, Way

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• Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway.

  Frank A. Clark

  Apples, Upset, Carts

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• Sci-fi has never really been my bag. But I do believe in a lot of weird things these days, such as synchronicity. Quantum physics suggests it's possible, so why not?

  John Cleese

  Believe, Bags, Physics

  "'Ross and Brand were astoundingly tasteless'". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2008.

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• I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am?

  Stephen Colbert

  Ice, Stuff, Used

  Vanity Fair interview, www.vanityfair.com. June 19, 2007.

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• I always wanted to be a snake. Every time I saw a snake on TV. I'd always say 'Why not me?'

  Dane Cook

  Funny, Snakes, Saws

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• It's a huge challenge, a huge responsibility. Bond is a huge iconic figure in movie history. These opportunities don't come along very often so I thought, 'Why not?'

  Daniel Craig

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Ties

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• Rock stars are idiots. You know that! Remember this moron never went to music school, never learned music theory and can't read or write music. So why not be suspicious of everything this idiot says?

  Gene Simmons

  Stars, School, Writing

  Source: www.noise11.com

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• Why not share with the world the way it is and tell them my feelings about my cat, and how I played with my kids, and how addicted to Christmas time I am, and the smell of pine needles and hearing my kids laugh.

  Steven Tyler

  Christmas, Holiday, Cat

  "Steven Tyler Wants Johnny Depp to Play Him on the Big Screen". www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 3, 2011.

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• People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

  Kanye West

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

  Robin Hobb

  Pain, Anticipation, Pleasure

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• "So you're always honest," I said. "Aren't you?" "No," I told him. "I'm not." "Well, that's good to know, I guess." "I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways." "How'd you mean it, then?" "I just...I don't always say what I feel." "Why not?" "Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said. "Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though."

  Sarah Dessen

  Hurt, Lying, Liars

  "Just Listen". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2006.

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• I'm not afraid," Rafi said. "Why not?" "If I die tomorrow it will have been useless to have been afraid today.

  Mark Helprin

  Useless, Today, Tomorrow

  Mark Helprin (2005). “A Soldier of the Great War”, p.197, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm just being practial. I knew someday I might have to bare my throat to you. Pete and I discussed that very possibility. As for the danger and risk taking, that's what Pete pays me to do. And you and I both know he inteneds to get his money's worth." Jasmine, I cannot-" Why not!" Because you are not food!" I stared at him for a minute; the I started to grin. I couldn't help it. Vayl"-I tried to keep my face straight- "I'm not asking you to eat me.

  Jennifer Rardin

  Risk, Asking, Might

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• I don’t fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is saying, ‘Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

  George S. Patton

  Motivational, Fear, Military

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• It is nothing but a kind of a microcosmos of communism - all that psychiatry', rumbled Pnin ... 'Why not leave their private sorrow to people? Is sorrow not, one asks, the only thing in the world people really possess?

  Vladimir Nabokov

  People, Sorrow, World

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “Pnin”, p.52, Vintage

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