#why

Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#feminist #hero #i #i write #know

My favorite on screen moments are when you are really there and you know you're creating something. That's so exciting... it's why you come to work. ↗

— Jason Dohring

#creating #exciting #favorite #know #moments

The whole nuclear thing is a terrible mess and it's hard for me to understand why it is that we, the United States, seem to be the only ones that are really particularly concerned about it and prepared to do something. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#concerned #hard #me #mess #nuclear

I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to them, and that's why they're more popular than other TV comedies. There's a basis of truth in them, a gut feeling. ↗

— Adrian Edmondson

#basis #claim #comedies #feeling #gut

Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior to other art. ↗

— David Elliott

#art #born #certain #connoisseur #judge

One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#classes #discomfort #expense #insist #marvels

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness? ↗

— Anna Freud

#around #basically #everything #everywhere #friendship

Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life. ↗

— Charles Frohman

#beautiful #death #fear #life #most

Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

#basic #basic research #learn #ourselves #research

Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing. ↗

— Graham Greene

#beings #governments #human #human beings #i