Why Me Quotes - Page 3

• I wonder why men can get serious at all. They have this delicate long thing hanging outside their bodies, which goes up and down by its own will. First of all, having it outside your body is terribly dangerous. If I were a man I would have a fantastic castration complex to the point that I wouldn't be able to do a thing. Second, the inconsistency of it, like carrying a chance time alarm or something. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.

  Yoko Ono

  Men, Long, Laughing

  Yoko Ono (1970). “Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings by Yoko Ono”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

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• A meme (rhymes with dream) is a unit of information (a catchphrase, a concept, a tune, a notion of fashion, philosophy or politics) that leaps from brain to brain. Memes compete with one another for replication, and are passed down through a population much the same way genes pass through a species. Potent memes can change minds, alter behavior, catalyze collective mindshifts and transform cultures. Which is why meme warfare has become the geopolitical battle of our information age. Whoever has the memes has the power.

  Kalle Lasn

  Dream, Fashion, Philosophy

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• A woman has all too much substance in a man's eyes at the best of times. That is why men like women to be slim. Her lack of flesh negates her. The less of her there is, the less notice he need take of her. The more like a male she appears to be, the safer he feels.

  Fay Weldon

  Eye, Men, Males

  Fay Weldon (1967). “... and the wife ran away”

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• Unfortunately, there's no greater rhyme or reason as to why it would be me. And since there is no answer as to why me, it's not a question I feel really entitled to ask.

  David Rakoff

  Would Be, Answers, Reason

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• Certainly one is brought to the brink of one's sense of who one is, what one has to do, why me, why now, why in this time in history? I am really driven, believe it or not, am awakened by a sense of being in this powerful axis, this turning point in human history.

  Jean Houston

  Powerful, Believe, Axes

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• I definitely don't know why men are turned-on by lesbianism.

  Jim Goad

  Men, Lesbianism, Knows

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• Novels are usually built on conflict, sometimes very, very difficult conflict. It's why men write war novels - because there you go, there's the conflict writ large.

  Anna Quindlen

  War, Writing, Men

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• It's the gloomy things that need our help, if everything in the garden is sunny, why meddle?

  Julian Fellowes

  Garden, Needs, Helping

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• Nobody has ever given a reason why men should be their brother's keepers.

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Men, Reason Why

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• There are three reasons why men of genius have long hair. One is, that they forget it is growing. The second is, that they like it. The third is, that it comes cheaper; they wear it long for the same reason they wear their hats long.

  Israel Zangwill

  Men, Hair, Long

  Israel Zangwill (2012). “The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes”, p.180, tredition

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• I never in a million years thought I would be starring in Hairspray, ever. Because if you think about my past, it's been 30 years of playing a macho leading man, so when I was offered it, I said: "Why? Why me? What have I done to deserve that you think I should do this?" After much convincing, over a year and two months, I was convinced they wanted to make a great movie.

  John Travolta

  Men, Thinking, Past

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• On eluding conviction after mistrial: Why me? I am blessed. I can't complain. I am walking out the door. I am going to have a healthy and happy Christmas.

  John A. Gotti

  Blessed, Doors, Healthy

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• Avoid the question 'why me?.' It saves a lot of grief

  Wilhelmina Baird

  Grief

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• The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed - socialism doesn't work.

  Rand Paul

  Fundamentals, Unions, Reason Why

  "Kentucky Tonight", KET, June 16, 1998.

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• For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Book, Heart, Past

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• I had an emotional breakdown since I really had no idea what diabetes was all about. I wondered, 'why me?' Then I asked myself, 'why not me?' and realized that I might be able to help other kids with diabetes.

  Nick Jonas

  Kids, Emotional, Helping Others

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• Why Me? Why You? Why His? Why Hers, Why Mine? or Why Theirs? It should be We and Ours.

  Caroline Anthonypillai

  Leadership, Should, Mines

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• One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is catching; and if so many men escape it, it is in a great degree from the same reason that country-men escape the smallpox, because they meet no one to give it to them.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Country, Men, Practice

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• These things are sent to try us, but why me?

  Lynda Bellingham

  Trying, Experience

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• One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.

  Nathanael Emmons

  Success, Men, Attention

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• The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its chemical identification by Avery (confirmed by Hershey), and the elucidation by Watson and Crick of the structural basis of its replicative invariance, are without any doubt the most important discoveries ever made in biology. To this must be added the theory of natural selection, whose certainty and full significance were established only by those later theories.

  Jacques Monod

  Science, Dna, Discovery

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• Rudy handed it back. "Speaking of which, I think we're both slightly in for it when we get home. You especially." "Why me?" "You know- your mama." "What about her?" Liesel was exercising the blatant right of every person who's ever belonged to a family. It's all very well for such a person to whine and moan and criticize other family members, but they won't let anyone else do it. That's when you get your back up and show loyalty.

  Markus Zusak

  Loyalty, Home, Exercise

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• Curran gave me a flat look. "I can always drive to a burger joint instead." "Oh, so you'd throw a burger down my throat and expect making out in the back seat?" He grinned. "We can do it in the front seat instead, if you prefer. Or on the hood of the car." "I'm not doing it on the hood of the car." "Is that a dare?" Why me?

  Ilona Andrews

  Car, Looks, Burgers

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• If we didn't have understanding of our journey, we wouldn't be able to go on. We'd be stuck, like, 'Why me?'

  Mary J. Blige

  Journey, Understanding, Goes On

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• When I use the word 'healing', by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we're very good at handling, but there's always a sense of the violation. 'Why me?' 'Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else's?' And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.

  Abraham Verghese

  Spiritual, Jobs, Mean

  "A Novel That's the Best Medicine". Interview with Tina Brown, www.thedailybeast.com. February 11, 2009.

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