Should I Quotes

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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I'm not going to / let a little thing like the world stand in my way. / Why should I? I understand it / as much as I understand penguins / and I still go to the zoo.

Matthew Dickman

Zoos, World, Littles

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Why should I talk to you? I don't know where you're from.

Al Davis

Nfl, Should, Raiders

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Should I marry W.? Not if she won't tell me the other letters in her name.

Woody Allen

Funny, Humorous, Names

Woody Allen, Robert E. Kapsis, Kathie Coblentz (2006). “Woody Allen: Interviews”, p.151, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me? I am well assured that the Questioner, who brings me so many problems, will bring me the answers also, in due time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Attitude, Answers, Problem

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.437

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O, from the ancient days always there have been travelers. So why should I grieve?

Du Fu

Travel, Grieving, Ancient

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But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?

Jimmy Connors

Real, Thinking, Tennis

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What I do is sometimes - at least in Germany - met with wounding campaigns. I always face the question: should I grow myself a thick skin and ignore it, or should I let myself be wounded? I've decided to be wounded, since, if I grew a thick skin, there are other things I wouldn't feel any more.

Gunter Grass

Skins, Germany, Campaigns

"A life in writing: Günter Grass" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2010.

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After all the work I've done, why should I suddenly be treated as a bona fide actress?

Eva Gabor

Done, Actresses, Should

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Why should I limit myself to only one woman when I can have as many women as I want?

George Gershwin

Want, Limits, Should

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

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Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.

Zygmunt Bauman

Book, Writing, Thinking

Keith Tester, Zygmunt Bauman, Michael Hviid Jacobsen (2005). “Bauman Before Postmodernity: Invitation, Conversations and Annotated Bibliography 1953-1989”, Aalborg Universitetsforlag

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Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?

Patti Smith

Unanswered Questions, Path, Twisted

Song: Pissing in a River, Album: Radio Ethiopia

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Should I peel a cap or should I let him survive?

Ice Cube

Unanswered Questions, Should, Caps

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Once I was adviced never to trust a pretty face. Well, and what should I do when a meet a shithead?

William C. Brown

Power, Faces, Management

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Why should I worry, why should I care? And even when I cross that line, I got street savoire faire.

Billy Joel

Philosophy, Worry, Care

Song: Why Should I Worry?

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Why should I ever get fed up talking about my father? He was a brilliant, colorful man who left us with thousands of memories. Most people remember his films, but I've got anecdotes and advice and episodes of real life tucked away inside my head.

Danny Huston

Memories, Father, Real

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

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Do I have to change my name, will it get me far? Should I lose some weight, am I gonna be a star?

Madonna Ciccone

Art, Stars, Media

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Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears?

Lawrence Block

Eye, People, Ears

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I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?

Philip Johnson

Art, Building, Should

"Philip Johnson: What I've Learned". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. February 1999.

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I've been embarrassing myself publicly for over 20 years. Why should I stop now?

Juliana Hatfield

Years, Embarrassing, Should

"A heart that hurts is a heart that works. I will beat my anorexia" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2008.

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

Heart, Feelings, Details

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What language shall I borrow To thank Thee, dearest Friend, For this, Thy dying sorrow, Thy pity without end? O make me Thine forever, And should I fainting be, Lord, let me never, never Outlive my love for Thee.

Robert Morgan

Love, Forever, Sorrow

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I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If something is pleasurable and exciting and rewarding, why should one stop?

Gunther Schuller

Hate, Stop Hating, Pleasure

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Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.

Laurence Sterne

Hurt, Devil, Gone

'Tristram Shandy' (1759-67) bk. 2, ch. 12

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Bella: "Should I be afraid?" Edward: "Terrified."

Stephenie Meyer

Vampire, Should, Terrified

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