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The Great Gatsby
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Why Quotes

Why do they cover Paul’s songs but never mine?

– Yoko Ono

I’m bigger than the typical model, and I’m shorter, too. I really can’t say why it’s all worked for me.

– Suki Waterhouse

You have to determine what you are and send the messages out to people, like, ‘Hey, I’m a screenwriter – look at this.’ You can’t sit around, wondering why people aren’t calling and asking about my writing.

– Zach Galligan

I like all sorts of art, that’s why I love wandering around The National Gallery.

– Samuel Barnett

I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn’t get a second date.

– Zachary Levi

I lose stuff. I forget stuff. I walk into rooms and go, ‘Why am I in here? What did I come in here for?’ Is that normal? I’m 65. I don’t know.

– Terry Bradshaw

Why do writers write? Because it isn’t there.

– Thomas Berger

So many women are financially dependent on men. So why can’t men be dependent on women? I’m totally okay with it.

– Sonam Kapoor

We should triple the amount we spend on defense and quadruple what we spend on prisons. Why do we pay for food stamps? Welfare? Medicare? They don’t keep us safe. If anything, they nurture the most dangerous elements of society.

– Tom Cotton

I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them.

– Spalding Gray

Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?

– Zebulon Pike

Everything ultimately becomes the CEO’s problem, no matter where it starts. I can see why some CEOs crack under the pressure.

– Yishan Wong

If investors are willing to fund the U.S. deficit, why wouldn’t investors want to fund the press freedom deficit?

– Sasa Vucinic

I don’t know rap. I can’t tell you a Tupac song. But you put on some go-go, and I’ll know it word-for-word. That’s why I feel like I got my own sound – or a D.C. sound.

– Shy Glizzy

I’m more interested in interpersonal relationships – between lovers families, siblings. That’s why I write about how we treat each other.

– Terry McMillan

What came out of ‘The LEGO Movie’ was the idea of ‘Batman’s the Dark Knight’, so why is he so moody? What’s going on? Why is he so banged up? And wouldn’t it be fun to get in there and explore that?

– Will Arnett

My maxim is that no one’s ever made it. I haven’t and that’s why I work my hardest.

– Shayne Ward

The main reason why we look constantly to the Gita is that, whenever we need help, we may get it from the Gita. And, indeed, we always do get it.

– Vinoba Bhave

The Americans have their way of talking, their way of dressing, their way of doing things, and we have ours. That’s why this whole U.K. underground thing has become sick, because everyone has finally said, ‘Yeah, yeah, Drake is sick – but hang on, we are too.’

– Stormzy

Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?

– Steven Spielberg

The biggest fragility in a project is often just the inability to be able to explain to people why you are doing it, and when you’re going to do it, and what’s going to happen.

– Sebastian Coe

Why can’t you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can.

– Tim Finn

My theology is such that the God who loves Israel and will not forsake Israel – which is why I want to see Israel have a secure nation with secure borders – also loves the Palestinians.

– Tony Campolo

David Moyes was one who, at a certain crossroads in my career, he was there. And since then, I’ve kicked on. That’s why he played such a big role in my career.

– Tim Howard

I always do things that are not the flavour of the season. And that’s why people like me.

– Sonam Kapoor

Political pundits in Delhi and Islamabad have berated the West for its relativism and double-standards. After all why should Britain have a nuclear arsenal but not India? It is a reasonable question.

– Tariq Ali

Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name – why didn’t he do this sooner? Why didn’t he see it coming? It’s the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.

– Ted Yoho

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

– Stephen Curry

Cinema is about people, and we are a very emotional people. That is why you see those ups and those downs and those colours. That is what Indian cinema is about.

– Vidya Balan

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

– Truman Capote

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