Why Not Quotes - Page 23

• There are so many benefits to be derived from space exploration and exploitation; why not take what seems to me the only chance of escaping what is otherwise the sure destruction of all that humanity has struggled to achieve for 50,000 years?

  Isaac Asimov

  Moon, Space, Escaping

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• I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it's a good song, what does it matter?

  Bryan Adams

  Song, Doe, Film Music

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• It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring place, that I thought: 'Why not try writing a novel?' partly out of youthful arrogance and partly because there had been a long line of writers in my mother's family.

  Antony Beevor

  Mother, Jobs, Writing

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• People that went to art house theatre have more options, I used to go, but now think any movie can be delivered in a red envelope three months after it's released so why not watch it on my flat screen in the comfort of home.

  Edward Burns

  Art, Home, Thinking

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• I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him?

  Valerie Bertinelli

  Have Faith, God Is There

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• I started thinking: 'Okay, what's wrong with wearing a bikini? I look better than I looked in quite a few years, so why not? What am I afraid of?

  Valerie Bertinelli

  Thinking, Years, Bikinis

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• My agent asked if I fancied Robin Hood and I thought: 'Yeah, why not?' I hadn't watched it, to be honest, but I'd seen bits and knew it was really popular Saturday family viewing with heaps of action. I thought it would be great fun. I was up for a good old play-fighting and the scripts were terrifically exciting.

  Joanne Froggatt

  Fun, Fighting, Play

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• I grew up in a very progressive family and with a great educational system, and I asked myself, 'Why doesn't everybody have these opportunities for a good education? So why not give back to these kids who didn't grow up with the same privileges I had?

  Erin Gruwell

  Growing Up, Educational, Kids

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• My first day on the set of 'John Adams', I was just supposed to fly to Virginia for a costume fitting. But the director figured, why not shoot it, too? So they threw me into a dress that didn't fit, gave me lines I hadn't seen, in a dialect I didn't know, and two screaming, arching infants.

  Mamie Gummer

  Virginia, Two, Directors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I mean, if cans can be recycled, why not spirits?

  Marla Gibbs

  Mean, Spirit, Recycled

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think people enjoy reading about money, but the people who are in charge of giving me guidance tell me not to talk about it in interviews. Why not? That's what everybody thinks about.

  Sean Astin

  Reading, Thinking, People

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• It is only by yielding to God that we can begin to realize His will for us. And if we truly trust God, why not yield to His loving omniscience? After all, He knows us and our possibilities much better than do we.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Trust, Yield, Realizing

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• After all, I quite naturally want to live in order to fulfill my whole capacity for living, and not in order to fulfill my reasoning capacity alone, which is no more than some one-twentieth of my capacity for living. What does reason know? It knows only what it has managed to learn (and it may never learn anything else; that isn't very reassuring, but why not admit it?), while human nature acts as a complete entity, with all that is in it, consciously or unconsciously; and though it may be wrong, it's nevertheless alive.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Order, Alive

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• I seem to have been able to make a career out of doing what I feel like doing, so why not keep doing it? What's corrupting is wanting to be more important. You want to be more arty - you get your identity from that. Or you get your identity out of making more money.

  Jane Campion

  Careers, Important, Identity

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• Salads was a big indicator of that - there was a huge market out there for it. And why not tap it? Some of the things we are doing now around the globe are responding to customers. It's not because some guy sued you.

  Jim Cantalupo

  Guy, Salad, Bigs

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• Every once in a while I think, 'What am I doing out here running, busting myself up? Life could be so much easier. The other guys are out having fun, doing other things, why not me?'

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, Fun, Thinking

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• The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music?

  Lou Reed

  People, Dying, Should

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

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• You took the best, so why not take the rest?

  James A. Baldwin

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• All that sunny afternoon, traveling north and east, Caroline believed absolutely in the future. And why not? For if the worst had already happened to them in the eyes of the world, then surely, surely, it was the worst that they left behind them now.

  Kim Edwards

  Eye, Sunny Afternoon, East

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.76, Penguin

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• Why not? Why not?Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not?

  David Foster Wallace

  Infinite Jest, Reasoning, Ifs

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• Why not stand up, pump your fists in the air, and scream like a maniac? -

  Hayley Williams

  Air, Fists, Pumps

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• Instead he thinks up the worst ending imaginable: Hemingway has Catherine die from hemorrhaging after their child is stillborn. It is the most torturous ending I have ever experienced and probably will ever experience in literature, movies, or even television. I am crying so hard at the end, partly for the characters, yes, but also because Nikki actually teaches this book to children. I cannot imagine why anyone would want to expose impressionable teenagers to such a horrible ending. Why not just tell high school students that their struggle to improve themselves is all for nothing?

  Matthew Quick

  Children, Teenager, Struggle

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• I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?

  Louise Erdrich

  Thinking, Tears, Doorways

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• Vlad made a sound too harsh to be a growl. "You won't be satisfied until you've brought me to my knees, is that it?" "Why not?" It shot out of me with all the recklessness of my still-broken heart. "You brought me to mine.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Heart, Broken, Sound

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• My chest tightens: seeing him so upset breaks my own heart. 'Don't you ever wish you could make that bit go away?" I say, feeling angry at the past. 'That you could erase those painful memories, forget they every happened, just remember the happy times you had together?' 'You must never say that,' he reprimands sternly. 'But why not?' I look at him in surprise. 'Because it's the bad memories that makes you appreciate the good ones. Don't ever wish them away. it's like your nan always used to say, "You need both the sun and the rain to make a rainbow".

  Alexandra Potter

  Memories, Rain, Heart

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