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Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now because we don't… — Alexis Arguello
I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice? — Billie Joe Armstrong
My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America. — Desi Arnaz
Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes. — Frank Abagnale
If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that… — Arthur Ashe
Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there… — Bashar al-Assad
What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it. — David Attenborough
The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms… — David Attenborough
It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was… — David Attenborough
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
Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on… — Margaret Atwood
I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn't write.… — Margaret Atwood
The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you… — Margaret Atwood
Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they don't know what's… — Margaret Atwood
That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try… — Kevyn Aucoin
To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? — Wystan Hugh Auden
I can never say 'why' about anything I do. I suppose I can say 'how' and 'when' and 'what.' But 'why' is impenetrable to me. — Paul Auster
Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It… — Paul Auster

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