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• Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?

  W. D. Richter

  Flower, Space, Ships

  "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". m.imdb.com. 1978.

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• Am I self-righteous? Why not? It's not like I can count on you to be righteous for me.

  Henry Rollins

  Self, Alcohol, Righteous

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• I remember my dad asking me one time, and it's something that has always stuck with me: 'Why not you, Russ?' You know, why not me? Why not me in the Super Bowl? So in speaking to our football team earlier in the year, I said, 'Why not us? Why can't we be there?'

  Russell Wilson

  Football, Dad, Team

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• If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we desire. Instead of hiding our heads in a prayer cloth and building walls against temptation, why not get better at fulfilling desire? Salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.

  Tom Robbins

  Prayer, Wall, Thinking

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.119, Bantam

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• Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?

  Jack Kornfield

  Way, Dies, Our Lives

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “After The Ecstasy, The Laundry”, p.41, Random House

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• I have lunch with my friend who works for a theatrical agent and her and I were sitting there eating lunch on Sunset Boulevard and a woman who was a theatrical agent drove by and saw me and jumped out of the car and ran up and handed me her card. I had no idea this happens or would happen and I didn't know what to expect out of it. And my brother said alright you better call her and I said alright, why not? So that's pretty much how we got our first agent and then we started taking acting classes.

  George Stults

  Brother, Sunset, Class

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

  George Bernard Shaw

  Church, Rebellious

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• Teddy grinned again. 'Truths are dangerous,' he said. -'Then why are you writing them in a book?' -'To catch them between the pages,' said Teddy, 'and trap them before they disappear.' -'If they're dangerous, why not let them disappear?' -'Because when truths disappear, they leave behind blank spaces, and that is also dangerous.

  Kristin Cashore

  Book, Writing, Space

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• Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

  Pablo Picasso

  Song, Art, Flower

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

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• The Photograph belongs to that class of laminated objects whose two leaves cannot be separated without destroying them both: the windowpane and the landscape, and why not: Good and Evil, desire and its object: dualities we can conceive but not perceive... Whatever it grants to vision and whatever its manner, a photograph is always invisible: it is not it that we see.

  Roland Barthes

  Photography, Class, Two

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• All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working?

  Lawrence Summers

  Taxation, Pollution, Good Things

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• If you have the freedom to fly, why not take the scenic route!

  Claire Williams

  Butterfly, Routes, Scenic

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• If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is

  Arnold Rothstein

  Men, Dumb, Mobster

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• And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and self-control are convertible terms. Prohibition, or that which it implies, is the direct negation of the term self-control. In order to save the small percentage of men who are too weak to resist their animal desires, it aims to put chains on every man, the weak and the strong alike. And if this is proper in one respect, why not in all respects? Yet, what would one think of a proposition to keep all men locked up because a certain number have a propensity to steal?

  Felix Mendelssohn

  Strong, War, Animal

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• The drys seemingly are afraid of the truth. Why not take inventory and ascertain the true conditions. Let us not leave it to the charge of an antiprohibition organization, or to any other private association, let us have an official survey and let the American people know what is going on. A complete and honest and impartial survey would reveal incredible conditions.

  Fiorello H. La Guardia

  War, Organization, People

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• If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the nature of the being, the principle of equality requires that its suffering be counted equally with the like suffering - insofar as rough comparisons can be made - of any other being. So the limit of sentience is the only defensible boundary of concern for the interests of others. To mark this boundary by some other characteristic like intelligence or rationality would be to mark it in an arbitrary manner. Why not choose some other characteristic, like skin color?

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Skin Color, Suffering

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• I remember very clearly someone saying, 'Don't shake hands with the cactus,' and I thought, 'Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?' Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Hands, Friendly, Cactus

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• I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

  Brad Paisley

  Trying, Mindset, Changed

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

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• I would love to do a movie naked; it would be beautiful. No one dares make that kind of film today. They did it in the 1930s in an arty way, so why not now?

  Megan Fox

  Beautiful, Naked, Would Be

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• I almost feel like its an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure. I dont want to paint the same painting again. I dont want to make the same sculpture again. Why shouldnt a big movie studio be able to make those small independent kinds of pictures? Why not change it up?

  Andrew Stanton

  Independent, Want, Able

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• Beer commercials usually show big men, manly men, doing manly things: "You've just killed a small animal. It's time for a light beer." Why not have a realistic beer commercial, with a realistic thing about beer, where someone goes, "It's 5:00 in the morning. You've just pissed on a dumpster. It's Miller time."

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Morning, Humor

  "A Night at the Met". Studio album by Robin Williams, August 9, 1986.

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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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• I do have big tits. Always had 'em - pushed 'em up, whacked 'em around. Why not make fun of 'em? I've made a fortune with 'em.

  Dolly Parton

  Fun, Ems, Made

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• I know, I pick up the roles other actresses don’t want [laughs]. When there’s movies where there are two sisters and one’s the uglier sister, there’s always no actress that wants to go for it. I’m like, why not! They’re the best roles!

  Rebel Wilson

  Two, Laughing, Roles

  "‘Bachelorette’ Funny Lady Rebel Wilson: 'I pick up the roles other actresses don’t want'". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. August 15, 2012.

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• I have been told by people that I should not be seen clubbing with good-looking women, but I can't see why not. Why be a pop star otherwise?

  James Blunt

  Stars, People, Looking Good

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