Why Quotes
On purpose, honesty, and questions without easy answers.
This collection leans into open questions, including an actor's explanation for why storytelling matters and an honest admission of not fully knowing why certain darker roles appeal to them. See I Am quotes for related themes.
Someone asked why I invited Jon Stewart to be the first guest on the 'Journal''s premiere in 2007. 'Because Mark Twain isn't available,' I answered. I was serious.
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There are one-hundred fifty-four games in a season and you can find one-hundred fifty-four reasons why your team should have won every one of them.
Excessive stop-and-frisk divides communities. That's why the New York City Police Department has moved away from it.
Nuclear power plants built in the areas usually thought of as earthquake zones, such as the California coastline, have a surprisingly low risk of damage from those earthquakes. Why? They built anticipating a major quake.
In terms of mathematics textbooks, why can't you have the scale of a national market? Right now, we have a Texas textbook that's different from a California textbook that's different from a Massachusetts textbook. That's very expensive.
I understand cricket - what's going on, the scoring - but I can't understand why.
I didn't know why dessert was invented or what function it was meant to perform. Raising livestock and the harvesting of grains are ancient activities, but when did humankind decide it also needed creme brulee?
Why do we fully tax some kinds of income from capital, like interest and dividends; partially tax other kinds like capital gains; defer tax on other kinds, like IRAs; and impose no tax at all on still other types of...
I have always had a flair for acting; maybe that's why I enjoyed casting so much.
There are two reasons why I'm in show business, and I'm standing on both of them.
I don't know if we even mentioned UFOs. It was to find out why Barney was emotionally upset.
Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
I started in '69 to have psychoanalysis, and I realised very soon that I was changing, and that's I think why my movies were changing. They became much more open to dialogue.
I'm an unabashed apologist for strong national-security authority. That's why I might be more alarmed by Trump.
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