#why

A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that. ↗

— Laura Linney

#cannot #eat #i #just #know

I have an instinct to want to be part of a group of people. I feel safe there. That's why I was in school for so long. ↗

— Laura Linney

#group #i #i feel #instinct #long

Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory? ↗

— Charles de Lint

#beyond #churches #dark #did #doors

Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not. ↗

— James Lipton

#busy #comedians #funny #laugh #too

Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily. ↗

— James Lipton

#any #anybody #because #came #case

It is difficult to see why lace should be so expensive; it is mostly holes. ↗

— Mary Wilson Little

#expensive #holes #lace #mostly #see

Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn. ↗

— Eric Liu

#apple #arresting #because #called #china

Why should citizenship be a matter of birth? The premise held by those who want to end birthright citizenship is that some people deserve it and some do not - that the status shouldn't be handed out automatically. Frankly, that's a premise worth considering. ↗

— Eric Liu

#birth #birthright #citizenship #considering #deserve

The Austin music scene is the reason why so many of them moved here. ↗

— Bob Livingston

#here #many #moved #music #music scene

I'm interested in why people compromise when they shouldn't. It comes back to what V's about in a sense. We've all got ideals, but given the right circumstances, we'll forget about them and put them behind us. I'm very interested in why people do that. ↗

— David Lloyd

#back #behind #circumstances #comes #compromise