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I've been every size in the world. Parts of my 20s, I was in great shape, but I didn't appreciate it. If I was a… — Melissa McCarthy
Those who know the marvels of chess and wonder why this game of all games does not enjoy greater popularity may also ask why Pepsi-Cola… — Gregor Piatigorsky
The battle for the ultimate truth will never be won. And that's why chess is so fascinating. — Hans Kmoch
You shouldn't be pressured into trying to be thin by the fashion industry, because they only want models that are like human mannequins. They know… — Rhianna
What I feel is that the picture-taking process, anyway a greater part of it, is an intuitive thing. You can't go out and logically plan… — Wynn Bullock
His Holiness [the Dalai Lama] has told me, urgently and repeatedly, that he thinks my photographs are crap. His exact words were, 'These photos are… — Richard Gere
If you want to photograph a man spinning, give some thought to why he spins. Understanding for a photographer is as important as the equipment… — Margaret Bourke-White
Greece won the 2004 European Championship with the oldest trick in the book: man-for-man marking. Why? Because nobody expected it - and by the time… — Unknown Author
The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy. — Beaumont Newhall
The Photograph belongs to that class of laminated objects whose two leaves cannot be separated without destroying them both: the windowpane and the landscape, and… — Roland Barthes
I don't know why we aren't scoring as we're keeping clean sheets. — Unknown Author
Fulham haven't had a shot on target, which is probably why they aren't in the goals. — Tony Cottee
Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I wrote it down!' — Mikhail Tal
Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and the rest -… — Peter Singer
I'll not hurt thee, says Uncle Toby, rising with the fly in his hand. Go, he says, opening the window to let it escape. Why… — Laurence Sterne
Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating… — Peter Ackroyd
We are all afraid. That's the thing that unites all truly successful people: fear, fear of failing, fear of criticism, fear of letting down the… — Peggy Noonan
There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one? — Zaha Hadid
It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher? — Horace
Too many times, people don't try their best. They don't have the keen spirit; the winning spirit. And once you make it you've got to… — Bobby Fischer
I don't know why but I love this kind of project, when it's a little difficult and when you have a history. The beginning of… — Unknown Author
Teach your children well...and feed them on your dreams...Don't ever ask them why. If they told you you would cry. So just look at them… — Graham Nash
I think there's a reason why wine figures into so many religions. There's something transcendent about it. It's sort of the way that music is… — Maynard James Keenan
How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle? — Katherine Mansfield

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