I’ve never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about. – Brad Holland
You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can’t be English American. Why not? – Christopher Hitchens
If the elections are a mere fraud, why are terrorists being trained and infiltrated into India at the command of the Inter-Services Intelligence Agency of Pakistan to kill election candidates and to intimidate voters? – Atal Bihari Vajpayee
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
Why, in such a case, should the performer essay any sort of considered approach at all? – Brian Ferneyhough
What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That’s why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it. – Barry Manilow
You never really know why you become an actor: it’s a visceral thing, an emotional thing. – Andy Serkis
A mockumentary is supposed to be real, and we were frustrated with mockumentaries on TV, which are so rampant because of the success of ‘The Office.’ It’s not real. You watch and ask why is there even a crew there. They never set it up in the narrative. You have a documentary crew following families for reasons we don’t understand. – Benny Fine
Why do investors seem to care about ‘billion dollar exits?’ Historically, top venture funds have driven returns from their ownership in just a few companies in a given fund of many companies. – Aileen Lee
Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing. – Barry Eichengreen
I don’t really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not. – Clint Eastwood
Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That’s why we get into trouble all the time. We’re always viewed as naive. – A. Bartlett Giamatti
When I grew up, there was one music: rock n’ roll. Somewhere along the line, there was a separation. I don’t know why it happened, but it did happen. – Clarence Clemons
Someone could be amazing at what they do, but if you don’t like them, why bother hiring them? – Chip Conley
As the stylist, sometimes you see things that you love that don’t work, and that’s OK. That’s why we have fittings! – Brad Goreski
Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically? – Clint Eastwood
Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man. – A. N. Wilson
Even the things we are certain about are only an illusion. We are born with a female side and a male side, and these two sides are always fighting and challenging each other. This is why anything we want to do, we have the other side of telling us not to do it, to be careful about it. – Asghar Farhadi
