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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
Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it.… — John F. Kennedy
I've never been turned down for a role because I'm gay. I'm a character actor, and that's probably why. I don't find Hollywood, in my… — Jane Lynch
Why shouldn't gay people be allowed to be able to marry? Those against gay marriages say marriage should only be between a man and a… — Elizabeth Taylor
Why must she dress that way? I think she's confused about her gender. — Tim Gunn
I'm for gay marriage. I don't want to do it, but I certainly think people should be allowed to, and I wouldn't vote for anybody… — John Waters
People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if I have done the hardest… — Herman Melville
You can't postpone sorrow, so why would you postpone happiness? — Robert Breault
I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and public figures, but more in… — Sufjan Stevens
[O]ne might ask why, in a galaxy of a few hundred billion stars, the aliens are so intent on coming to Earth at all. It… — Seth Shostak
Why should a lobster be any more ridiculous than a dog? ... or a cat, or a gazelle, or a lion, or any other animal… — Gerard De Nerval

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