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So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in… — Barbara Ehrenreich
I wanted to go higher than Rockefeller Center, which was being erected across the street from Saks Fifth Avenue and was going to cut off… — Jacqueline Cochran
Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground. — Richard Bach
Why would anybody lie? The truth is always more colourful. — Jerry Hall
Why should anyone hear the Gospel twice, before everyone has heard it once? — Oswald J. Smith
We're not always going to understand why something happens.True faith is trusting even when it doesn't make sense — Joel Osteen
Left to my own devices, would I trade this for firm thighs, fewer wrinkles, a better memory? On some days. That's why it's such a… — Anne Lamott
On why he no longer went to Ruggeri's, a St. Louis restaurant: "Nobody goes there anymore because it's too crowded." — Yogi Berra
I tended not to be concerned about whether a song was going to be a hit when I wrote it. Because it became evident that… — Hal David
I'd hate to be a songwriter starting a career today...Al Stanton walked in one day and said, 'Otis, I've got an idea. Why don't you… — Otis Blackwell
You know, it's a pretty mysterious thing still, why you start the songs you start, and the specific flavor of them, the nature of them.… — Gillian Welch
You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it...I always believed that I have something important to say and I said… — Lou Reed
My vocation is more in composition really than anything else-building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army. ...… — Jimmy Page
Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why should you always talk of… — Georges Bernanos
In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who… — Victor Hugo
We spend most of our lives working. So why do so few people have a good time doing it? — Richard Branson
"The ultimate recession": a recession caused not by failed regulation and bankers' greed, but by very high oil prices, food and water shortages, disappearing forests,… — Jonathon Porritt
Outsiders develop humor as a defense; why do you think most comedians are gay or Jewish? — Paul Lynde
Being human, we are imperfect. That's why we need each other. To catch each other when we falter. To encourage each other when we lose… — Hillary Clinton
Helping people and putting smiles on their faces is a great, great thing. God only knows why more people don't do it more often. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

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