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Why can't all different types of women be considered beautiful? Why can't we can't we all be considered possible love interests? — Margaret Cho
You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films… — Helena Bonham Carter
It took me so many years to move out. I'm definitely a bit of a Peter Pan, reluctant to grow up. It all seemed really… — Helena Bonham Carter
It's kind of weird, because I look at myself as just a normal person. My friends get rejected all the time, so why shouldn't I?… — Nick Carter
With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all? — Julian Casablancas
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? — Pablo Casals
One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time… — June Carter Cash
If I'm hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, 'Hey, why don't you go downstairs and start a new novel?' — Nick Cave
L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation. — Nick Cave
I'm not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I… — Dick Cavett
There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around. — Vinton Cerf
The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it. — Paul Cezanne
When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?' — Jackie Chan
Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training. — Jackie Chan
Doctors and nurses, with their training and their experiences, they would be able to detect unusual patterns of disease. That's why we say it is… — Margaret Chan
Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be… — Chanakya
I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars. — Fred Allen
I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men. — Coco Chanel
That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat… — Charlie Chaplin
In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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