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• People come up to me and say "Steve, what is film editing?" And I say "How should I know? You're the director.

  Steve Martin

  Editing, People, Directors

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• I do a lot of work with policymakers, but how much effect am I having? It’s like they’re coming in and saying to you, ‘I’m going to drive my car off a cliff. Should I or should I not wear a seatbelt?’ And you say, ‘I don’t think you should drive your car off the cliff.’ And they say, ‘No, no, that bit’s already been decided—the question is whether to wear a seatbelt.’ And you say, ‘Well, you might as well wear a seatbelt.’ And then they say, ‘We’ve consulted with policy expert Rory Stewart and he says . . . .’

  Rory Stewart

  Thinking, Car, Experts

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• When a student comes and asks, "Should I become a mathematician?" the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you shouldn't even ask.

  Paul Halmos

  Math, Answers, Students

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• But why should I cast myself in the ancient female part of victim of men's plots and passions?

  Ellen Douglas

  Passion, Men, Female

  Ellen Douglas (2012). “A Lifetime Burning”, p.20, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lonely, Way, Should

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.208

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• Why should I bring happiness to those I loathe by obliterating myself, when I can make them miserable just by existing?

  Jessica Zafra

  Miserable, Should, I Can

  Jessica Zafra (1995). “Twisted”, Anvil Books

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• Life is sentimental. Why should I be cold and hard about it? That's the main content. The biggest thing in people's lives is their loves and dreams and visions, you know.

  Jim Harrison

  Dream, People, Vision

  Jim Harrison, Robert J. DeMott (2002). “Conversations with Jim Harrison”, p.190, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• When I travel around the world, I see that poor countries sell their grain to the West while their own children starve in their arms. And we feed it to livestock. So we can eat a steak? Am I the only one who sees this as a crime? Every morsel of meat we eat is slapping the tear-stained face of a starving child. When I look into her eyes, should I be silent? The Earth can produce enough for everyone’s need. But not enough for everyone’s greed.

  Philip Wollen

  Country, Children, Food

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• I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose — there has never yet been one able to do it. Should I expect to be the one?

  Clara Schumann

  Ideas, Creative, Desire

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• Most people fail at whatever they attempt because of an undecided heart. Should I? Should I not? Go forward? Go back? Success requires the emotional balance of a committed heart. When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape. A committed heart does not wait for conditions to be exactly right. Why? Because conditions are never exactly right.

  Andy Andrews

  Heart, Emotional, People

  Andy Andrews (2005). “The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success”, p.86, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• To those who say Ted Bundy should burn forever in eternity I would only say, so should I, so should all of us.

  James Dobson

  Forever, Ted Bundy, Conservative

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• If I did not see that the Lord kept watch over the ship, I should long since have abandoned the helm. But I see Him! - through the storm, strengthening the tackling, handling the yards, spreading the sails - yes more, commanding the very winds! Should I not be a coward if I abandoned my post? Let Him govern, let Him carry us forward, let Him hasten or delay; we will fear nothing!

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Prayer, Wind

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• Dogs don't lie and why should I? Strangers come they growl and bark, they know their loved ones in the dark, Now let me, by night or day, Be just as full of truth as they.

  Garrison Keillor

  Dog, Truth, Lying

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “Lake Wobegon Days”, p.8, Penguin

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• Then in came this script with another very low offer, and another drug addict and a depressing and difficult part to play. I thought, 'Why should I put myself through that for hardly any money?'

  Ellen Burstyn

  Depressing, Play, Drug

  Guardian interview at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2000.

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• We are here to love, not to judge. I'd been blaming and raging. I certainly wasn't loving my daughter that afternoon as God loves me. God's love doesn't insist on perfection or even good common sense. Why then should I demand more of those I love? With this tiny change in perspective I began to see the need for correction wasn't in my daughter, but in me.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Love, Daughter, Common Sense

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• When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Government, Giving, Haste

  Civil Disobedience (1849)

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• Should I become President...I will not risk American lives...by permitting any other nation to drag us into the wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time through an unwise commitment that is unwise militarily, unnecessary to our security and unsupported by our allies.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Commitment, Risk

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• The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed.

  Harry Houdini

  Fire, Great Day, Should

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.33, 谷月社

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• Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why not I? Between these two sentences lie whole centuries of moral evolution.

  Annie Besant

  Lying, Responsibility, Two

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• Should I marry W? Not if she won't tell me the other letters in her name. And what about her career? How can I ask a woman of her beauty to give up the Roller Derby? Decisions...

  Woody Allen

  Marriage, Giving Up, Names

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?

  Friedrich Schiller

  Artist, April, Should

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• Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough?

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Humility, Perfection

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• You get respect in society if you are aggressive. If you fight then people respect you. If you fight back, people like you for that as well. When Ive been beaten up, if Ive been in a pub doing nothing wrong, the fact I chose not to fight back, that I would never throw a punch back, people say Im weak. I dont think thats a weak thing at all. I think why should I descend to their level? If Ive done nothing wrong, throwing a punch back makes me as bad and corrupt as them. As evil as them, as stupid as them.

  Richey Edwards

  Stupid, Fighting, Thinking

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• Frankly, Wonder Woman is psychological propaganda for the new type of woman who should, I believe, rule the world.

  William Moulton Marston

  Believe, World, Wonder Woman

  "The Last Amazon" by Jill Lepore, www.newyorker.com. September 22, 2014.

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• Why should I have a calling card? I'm not a call girl!

  Melanie

  Girl, Cards, Calling

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