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I fully expect that NASA will send me back to the moon as they treated Sen. Glenn, and if they don't do otherwise, why, then… — Pete Conrad
It's funny, but many people don't understand why I draw so many games nowadays. They think my style must have changed but this is not… — Mikhail Tal
Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims,… — Vladimir Kramnik
Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before you do it. — Joan Aiken
Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just distant enough to… — Diana Wynne Jones
We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything. Anarchism, in all its forms,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
My generation is now the door to memory. That is why I am remembering. — Joy Harjo
Lawyers on TV always tell their clients not to say anything. The cops say that thing: 'Anything you say will be used against you.' Self-incrimination.… — Laurie Halse Anderson
The mystery of life--its inexplicability, beauty, cruelty, tenderness, folly . . . has occupied the greater part of my waking thoughts; and in reverence or… — Theodore Dreiser
Listen closely. There’s a remote possibility that you might learn something: First, I don’t give a damn if my work is commercial or not…I’m the… — John Fante
So what’s the use of repentance, and what do you care for goodness, and what if you should die in a quake, so who the… — John Fante
I don't like what you`re doing, but I won't insult you. Why? Because who you are tomorrow may be better than who I am today — Tariq Ramadan
If someone loves you for what you can do then it's flattering, but why do you love them? If someone loves you for who you… — Ann Patchett
That was a f****g dumb question. If I didn't think I was gonna win, why the hell would I be fighting?! — Rocky Marciano
When a long-term trend loses it’s momentum, short-term volatility tends to rise. It is easy to see why that should be so: the trend-following crowd… — George Soros
If blacks are oppressed in America, why isn’t there a black exodus? — David Horowitz
One of the major reasons why people are not doing well is because they keep trying to get through the day. A more worthy challenge… — Jim Rohn
I don't consider myself a musician who has achieved perfection and can't develop any further. But I compose my pieces with a formula that I… — Thelonious Monk
Unfortunately, my district like many others across the country has a problem with gangs, which is why I introduced this amendment — Bob Filner
I'm writing a poem right now about a nose. I've always wanted to write a poem about a nose. But it's a ludicrous subject. That's… — Maurice Sendak
A book's alright when the weather's foul and there's nothing else to do, but why sit and read when the wind is calling your name? — Mercedes Lackey
When film is not a document, it is dream. That is why Tarkovsky is the greatest of them all. He moves with such naturalness in… — Ingmar Bergman
I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a… — James Wolcott
The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny. The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that's… — Alain Badiou
What's this war in the heart of Nature? Why does Nature vie with itself? The Land contend with the Sea? Is there an avenging power… — Terrence Malick

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