Understood Why Quotes
75 quotes by 70 authors
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I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
— Margaret Atwood
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A few months ago, I had the pleasure of actually visiting the Playboy Mansion. I saw the peacocks, fed grapes to the monkeys, and even…
— Diablo Cody
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The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed…
— Hank Aaron
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I never understood why people want to do big things... Just do little things, with great Love.
— Heidi Baker
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I have never understood why public opinion about European ideas should be taken into account.
— Raymond Barre
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Oh, what the hell did I know? I went to the set the first day in full makeup and the director told me to take…
— Ava Gardner
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I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure
— Julie Christie
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Al Michaels is a good announcer. I think Keith Jackson is a terrific announcer. I always loved him on Monday Night Football. I never understood…
— John Turturro
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I always enjoyed playing ball, and it didn't matter to me whether I played with white kids or black. I never understood why an issue…
— Willie Mays
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Of all the potential perils to the new American republic, the prospect of concentrated power . . . troubled the intellectual leaders of the Revolutionary…
— Joe Conason
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Best Buy. I heard recently they are downsizing and I got sad! I remember when Circuit City was around, I never understood why people would…
— Kerry King
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She’s easy to like. I’ve never understood why that’s considered a compliment - that just anyone could like you.
— Gillian Flynn
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I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.
— Audrey Niffenegger
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I spent years trying to find some use for inheritance and virtuals, before I understood why that mechanism was fundamentally flawed and should not be…
— Alexander Stepanov
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We have never understood why men mount the heads of animals and hang them up to look down on their conquerers. Possibly it feels good…
— John Steinbeck
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I just never understood why someone else's love life and who they love and who they choose to be with affects so many other people's…
— Seimone Augustus
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I've never understood why women love cats. Cats are independent, they don't listen, they don't come in when you call, they like to stay out…
— Jay Leno
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I have never understood why a woman must have a man to take her into dinner.
— Jude Morgan
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Jacob is a German Shepherd. (I have never understood why they aren't called German Sheepdogs. What do the Germans call shepherds?)
— Alan Coren
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I never understood why anyone would do magazines. Like, why would someone put their face out there so much? It's because those people reading magazines…
— Elizabeth Olsen
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