Why Quotes
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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
— James Allen
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Westerners know the difference between a talker and the real deal. If Rick Perry wasn't right to be governor of Texas, why should he be…
— Dick Cheney
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I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you're a political junkie like I obviously…
— Dick Cheney
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn't tell you enough... I…
— Julia Child
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You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle…
— Lydia M. Child
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Why go through life feeling cheated? It does nothing but make you bitter.
— Margaret Cho
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People are really terrified of me. I don't know why, I'm very nice, but people are very intimidated by me.
— Margaret Cho
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Sci-fi has never really been my bag. But I do believe in a lot of weird things these days, such as synchronicity. Quantum physics suggests…
— John Cleese
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If public figures came out of the closet, then the LGBT kids who saw them on TV would feel safe before they even knew why…
— Margaret Cho
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Well-being changes as we move through life, which is why a child's version of it cannot be the same as an old person's.
— Deepak Chopra
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In modelling, there is no point in trying to prove you have a brain, so why even bother? I'd sooner save the energy for something…
— Helena Christensen
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Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.
— Agatha Christie
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I was raised, myself, by extremely strict but also extremely loving Chinese immigrant parents. To this day, I believe that their having high expectations for…
— Amy Chua
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A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.
— Amy Chua
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For my senior prom, my father finally said I could go - as long as I was home by 9 P.M.! That was around the…
— Amy Chua
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A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability…
— Winston Churchill
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I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?
— Emile M. Cioran
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