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A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why. -- Amy Chua
Can I start by asking why your drawings abnormally suck? -- Tite Kubo
I think people can benefit tremendously from really asking why they're doing certain things, -- Elizabeth Holmes
i really don't bother asking why, i bother myself on asking how it can be done.. -- Jinnul Jr.
It is very important for young people keep their sense of wonder and keep asking why. -- Stephen Hawking
If you want to survive in this world, you need to stop asking why people work together, and just start working together. -- Dan Wells
Fans always write asking why I didn't smile more in films. I smiled in `Annie Laurie`, but I can't recall that it helped much. -- Lillian Gish
Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works. -- Nathan Myhrvold
Iconic Paris tells us: here are our three-star attractions, go thou and marvel. And so we gaze obediently at what we are told to gaze at, without exactly asking why. -- Julian Barnes
There's no point in asking why, even though everybody will. I know why. The harder question is "why not?" I can't believe she ran out of answers before I did. -- Laurie Halse Anderson
The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things, but by contemplating the floating of things which floated naturally, and then intelligently asking why they did so. -- Thomas Troward
I will be me,when world aberrantlywill feel, my gravity!I will turn into my,when their shrill crywill stop asking why!(Poem:Because you so wanna meet me, Book: Ginger and Honey) -- Jasleen Kaur Gumber
Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Donâ??t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world. -- Barack Obama
Why are numbers beautiful? It's like asking why is Beethoven's Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you don't see why, someone can't tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is. -- Paul Erdos
Here's to adrenaline. Here's to dramatic abandon of protocol. Here's to treasured pain and purple rain. Here's to chasing our souls, burning across to sky. Here's to drinking the ash as it falls, and not asking why. -- Virginia Petrucci
There exists a world. In terms of probability this borders on the impossible. It would have been far more likely if, by chance, there was nothing at all. Then, at least, no one would have began asking why there was nothing. -- Jostein Gaarder
In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies. -- Walter Mosley
Sign your work...If you're not proud of it, don't ship it. If you are, sign your work and own the results. We'll know who to thank. If you work for a place where work goes unsigned (internally, in particular) it's worth asking why. -- Seth Godin
I could take all the cartoons in the tabloid newspapers, but I couldn't take my daughter punching me in the belly and asking why I was so fat. That was my inspiration to lose the weight. And probably the last time anyone hurt my feelings. -- Al Sharpton
People who aren't addicts want to know why I became one. They ask whether I had a midlife crisis. I'm only speaking for myself now, but I've stopped asking why and how. It's all about surrender and acceptance. It doesn't matter why I am an addict. -- Kevin Sessums
I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are. -- Joseph Stiglitz
I'm haunted by the thought of what Ray Anderson calls 'tomorrow's child,' asking why we didn't do something on our watch to save sharks and bluefin tuna and squids and coral reefs and the living ocean while there still was time. Well, now is that time. -- Sylvia Earle
Wide awake to the presence of God, I realized I had been so focused on asking why a good God allowed bad things to happen that I was missing out on the nearness of God all along. In becoming preoccupied with the why, I was missing the who. -- Margaret Feinberg
Occasional observers of horror movies have a nasty habit of asking why it is that there is always some poor misguided soul who opens the door to the cellar or to the attic or to the crypt when it's quite clear that no sane person would even consider it. -- Andrew Tudor
Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a formal condition of the epic form. And those taught that they deserve nothing rightly enjoy it when they succeed in terms the culture understands. -- Zadie Smith
Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a formal condition of the epic form. And those taught that they deserve nothing rightly enjoy it when they succeed in terms the culture understands." -- Zadie Smith
Why haven't I made more movies? Nobody asked me. -- Elaine Stritch
Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society? -- Robert Shea
Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why. -- Ernest Renan
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. -- Warren Bennis
Ask yourself why a red carpet is red. It could be any colour. -- Jake Gyllenhaal
If you ask 20 different readers why they read, they will all be right. -- Teresa Nielsen Hayden
Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. -- Bernard Baruch
People are always asking me why they don't make Westerns like they used to. -- Roy Rogers
If you can't taste an ingredient, you have to ask yourself why it is there. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
People always ask 'Why is Bubba different?' They're just trying to figure it out. -- Bubba Watson
If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking? -- John Gunther
You never ask why you've been fired because if you do, they're liable to tell you. -- Jerry Coleman
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one. -- Marcus Porcius Cato
For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? -- James Allen
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. -- Pablo Picasso
To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? -- W. H. Auden
You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word. -- Larry King
When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time. -- Ozwald Boateng
Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one. -- Len Deighton
Asking why is the root of a scientific mindset. -- Eraldo Banovac
Asking why you should retaliate often solves the problem better than retaliation itself. -- Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Asking "Why?" can lead to understanding. Asking "Why not?" can lead to breakthroughs. -- Daniel H. Pink
If "there is no harm in asking," why guilt and fear when we do so? -- Mason Cooley
Are you aware it is private property? Why you'll be asking be to bomb Essen next. -- Kingsley Wood
Asking what the question is, and why the question is asked, is always asking a pertinent question. -- Raymond Geuss
Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck. -- William Saroyan
That's precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? - Why not you, why not now... -- Tim Ferriss
Everyone keeps asking me, What are you doing? I say, Why do I need to do anything? I'm rich. -- Steve Guttenberg
If you insist on asking me why I feel the way I do, I plan to take the Fifth Amendment. -- Mason Cooley
Instead of asking Him to remember you, why not pray to find comfort and value where He has taken you. -- Tracie Peterson
Instead of asking WHY you had to do it, how about just thanking Him for safely bringing you THROUGH it. -- Cupcake Brown
Maybe if you stopped asking "why" all the time, you might be happy. Leave it alone, you know? Life is happy. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I stopped asking a long time ago, "why would you want me to play that?" I'm an actor. That's what I do. -- John Hurt
Just got off the phone with my health care provider asking them to explain why my premium jumped up. No good answer! -- Donna Brazile
Myrnin: "?Have we been introduced?' Frank: "?Probably not. Why, you asking me out, sweetheart?' Myrnin: "?You're not my type, darling. -- Rachel Caine
Having spent alarmingly large chunks of my life studying the white side of the Open Sicilian, I find myself asking, why did I bother? -- Daniel J. King
After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The happiness of mankind, if it ever should come to pass, would still leave men asking: Why? What point to it? To what end? -- William Barrett
I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer. -- Stephen Hawking
Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?' -- Henry Miller
One of the things that got me transitioning from physical science to brain science was asking, Why do we understand so much about the universe? -- Edward Boyden
What Plato was really asking was perhaps why a horse was a horse, and not, for example, a cross between a horse and a pig. -- Jostein Gaarder
How could you be nervous about asking me to marry you, Bones? I'd die for you. Why wouldn't I want to live for you as well? -- Jeaniene Frost
You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupidâ??and I know they areâ??yet I won't be wiser? -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Why does everyone keep asking me that?" Seriously, did I look like some sort of pyscho assassin? Maybe it was the pink sneakers. Or the heart earrings? -- Kiersten White
One of my best moves is to surround myself with friends who, instead of asking, 'Why?' are quick to say, 'Why not?' That attitude is contagious. -- Oprah Winfrey
Too often, a problem is allowed to fester until it reaches a crisis point... and the American people are left asking the question: what went wrong and why? -- Darrell Issa
I think I have an ongoing conversation with God. I think throughout the day, I'm constantly asking myself questions about what I'm doing, why am I doing it. -- Barack Obama
She glared at him. "Why are you forever asking hard questions?" He smiled. "Sooner or later you'll have to be able to answer one." Daja shoved him, grinning. -- Tamora Pierce
Asking me why I did or didn't do anything is generally pointless. How do I know? And asking me what I'll do in the future is even less rewarding. -- Lawrence Block
You shouldn't ask why do you wear a hat? What you really should be asking is why are you not? How can a look be complete without a hat? -- John Galliano
He's always asking: "?Is that new? I haven't seen that before.' It's like, Why don't you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet. -- Michelle Obama
If you're asking yourself why I have this success and you don't, don't be angry with me-stop and ask yourself what your issues are that are holding you back. -- Jennifer Hudson
Instead of always asking yourself why so-and-so acts this or that way, learn to ask: "What's inside of me that wants to hurt itself over how anyone else acts?" -- Guy Finley
All things being equal, why not be married to a rich man? (Somewhere, Hannah thinks, there must be a needlepoint pillow asking this very question in a cleverer way.) -- Curtis Sittenfeld
Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc. Why not try religion? -- Horace Greeley
Nowadays, to be frank, every week is a good week for freakshow television. we might start asking, Why are there so many freaks? And why do they all want to be on television? -- Caitlin Moran

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