Why Not Quotes - Page 9

• I heard people say, 'Why would he want to do this?' My answer is 'Why not?' It is what I love. It's what I know.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Unique, People, Answers

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• Remember, life is for living and learning. So listen to your life and the lessons it offers. What choices must you make this day to help you move forward? Make your list of the things you can do right now to create what you want and begin to do the work. You can say yes to happiness, wholeness, and prosperity. You can live fully and creatively. You can claim your power to choose. Why not claim it now?

  Susan L. Taylor

  Life, Moving, Choices

  Susan L. Taylor (2010). “Lessons in Living”, p.71, Anchor

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• We are always imagining something, It is practically impossible to be awake without imagining something. Then why not imagine something at all times that will inspire the powers within us to do greater and greater things?

  Christian D. Larson

  Inspire, Impossible, Imagine

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.397, Penguin

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• Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

  Pablo Picasso

  Song, Art, People

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• Every American wants MORE & MORE of the world and why not, you only live once. But the mistake made in America is persons accumulate more & more dead matter, machinery, possessions & rugs & fact information at the expense of what really counts as more: feeling, good feeling, sex feeling, tenderness feeling, mutual feeling. You own twice as much rug if you're twice as aware of the rug.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Sex, Mistake, America

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• The next 30 days are going to pass whether you like it or not, so why not think about something you have always wanted to try and give it a shot for the next 30 days?

  Matt Cutts

  Motivation, Inspiration, Thinking

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• Do yourself and your family a favor: Decide right now that you will write a self-help book someday. I'm serious. A self-help book is a great way to capture what you think makes a good person, a good life and a good world. It's also a "forever document" that you can pass down to future generations. We need more people sharing positive messages and books with the world. Why not be one of those people?

  Brendon Burchard

  Good Life, Book, Writing

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• You can actually muck with history and think about what if, why not. What if there were dragons in the Incan Empire that allowed them to resist colonization? What if there were a massive dragon empire in the middle of the interior of southern Africa that decided to take objection to the slave trade?

  Naomi Novik

  Thinking, Dragons, Southern

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Prostitutes have feelings; they are very human. They hurt, bleed cry and laugh just like you and me. To the people that want to legalize prostitution: Let me ask you a question. If you want to legalize it, would you now let your daughter/niece/grand daughter/sister do this? Why not sign them up for what you want legalized? And if not, WHY not? Does it make them too human for you now?

  Annie Lobert

  Daughter, Hurt, Niece

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• Why'd he name Ram Dass that? And Krishna Das that, instead of vice versa? Is Krishna Das more Krishna like and Ram Dass more Ram-like? Maybe... why not? We grow into our names. But why did my parents named me Jeffrey and my brother Michael? Who knows?

  Surya Das

  Brother, Names, Parent

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• This whole notion that the robot has to declare nuclear war is one part of the discussion, but it may not be reality. Reality is, maybe it can empathize to a far greater degree than we can and experience a way wider range of emotions. So, why not have a robot that can do that?

  Neill Blomkamp

  War, Reality, Degrees

  Source: collider.com

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• I would never say no to that [marriage] . It hasn't been my path up to this point. I think it would be nice to look forward to that. Meeting somebody of that caliber of "Yes, I want to spend my life with you." Of course, why not. I love the fact that that is legal in every state.

  Dave Koz

  Nice, Thinking, Would Be

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• Everything we do is escapism, because we'll all be dead and everything we do is completely meaningless. Why brush your teeth? Why not be in the park with the bums passing a short dog? Why pay taxes, why get educated? Of course literature is an escape. You have to fill the hours.

  T.C. Boyle

  Dog, Teeth, Literature

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't know who they are[my characters] . They're entirely invented characters. Maybe that's how I've been able to write so many books, because there are no boundaries for me. I can write a completely fantastical story like "Swept Away" or "Blinded by the Light" and then a non-comic drama like "Chicxulub" or something like "Birnam Wood" that has autobiographical underpinnings. Why not?

  T.C. Boyle

  Drama, Book, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I wanted to literalize the surreal here. Those are my favorite kinds of stories. I love when Gabriel García Márquez does that, for instance - it adds to the joy, dares you to believe the unbelievable. And why not: so much of life is so dreamlike, so strange, so absurd.

  Porochista Khakpour

  Believe, Joy, Doe

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I feel like there's a lot of drama in weather. It's something that's done really often in live action, so I figure, why not translate that to animation?

  Kirsten Lepore

  Drama, Weather, Done

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I do find that Western medicine is more and more open to proving energetic concepts. Why not, because modern physics is 100 percent based on it.

  Deborah King

  Medicine, Physics, Modern

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• If you're doing six takes, instead of doing six variations on the same words, why not just throw out the words and make them up as you go along, if you're comfortable with it? It gives the movies a slightly rangier feeling, and more of an accidental feel, but it also makes them edgier.

  Harold Ramis

  Giving, Feelings, Variation

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think that comedy is a good defense for a child. Because you know childhood is a nightmare as it is. And so why not use comedy and being funny as a defense to get through your life as opposed to drugs, alcohol and good looks? Because those things are dangerous when your young.

  Joy Behar

  Children, Thinking, Childhood

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• Surely ruminating and lolling, squandering slivers of time as you ponder on this or that plant; perching about the place on seats chosen for their essential and individual quality, are other whole aspects of being a gardener. Why shouldn't we? We sit in other people's gardens, why not in our own.

  Mirabel Osler

  Garden, People, Individuality

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• A helpful hand is a lesson in sharing and if you have the means why not play your part. Those who refuse your help are foolish, as we all know appreciating the helpful hand is just smart.

  Julie Hebert

  Smart, Mean, Play

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• We're talking about should we increase taxes? Why not put a tax on carbon emissions. It would raise a lot of money, it would reduce the environmental damages in the future, it would solve so many problems, and it would be a much more constructive thing to do than to think about raising the income tax.

  Robert F. Engle

  Thinking, Talking, Carbon Emissions

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The public wants to know why or why not. They don't want to know how you're going to do it.

  Frank Luntz

  Want, Know How, Knows

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• No matter what you watch, it has an impact. So, why not use this medium to bring great stories to millions of people around the world with the goal of not only entertaining them but inspiring them. That's what motivates me. That's why I get up every day.

  DeVon Franklin

  Impact, People, Goal

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I love the tradition of changing gowns throughout the reception. I know it's a little extravagant, but why not - it's your moment.

  Austin Scarlett

  Gowns, Littles, Tradition

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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