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• It’s creepy, knowing someone might be watching me. Why do they need that?

  Robert Stone

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• I want to do my part in fighting for America’s future. That’s why I have decided to run for the United States Senate.

  Sarah Steelman

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• I’m just quizzical about how things work and why things are.

  William Shatner

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• I really like to think of each record as its own thing. So, for sure, but I hate the idea of being stuck in anything. Like I want to do a Hawkwind-style record too, or a noise rock record or a hardcore record. Why not, you know? I would just not want to keep heading too far in one direction, without pulling off and going the other way.

  Ty Segall

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• Well, I’m like most Americans, we don’t vote by party, we both by the person because a person is bigger than the party, which is why sometimes the Democrats get in and sometimes the Republicans get in.

  Gene Simmons

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• Maybe it’s just, I’ve always been to the less traveled places, in any topic, whether it’s history, I always like to just choose the most obscure topic. And I don’t know why I have that impulse. I can’t really explain it but I’ve been doing that since I was a little kid.

  Andrew Bird

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• I don’t know why, but I’m an easy target. And I don’t do anything to dispel it.

  Ted McGinley

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• To me, being popular means I’ve got more friends. You’ve got to watch who your friends are, if you want to get close to them, but I’ve got a lot of acquaintances. And then, you’ve got to be real careful who your friends are, because you never know why they’re your friend.

  Reba McEntire

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• When I was a crusade director in British Columbia, all of our meetings were at 9:03. Somebody said ‘That’s ridiculous. Why did you do that?’ It’s because you remember it. You’ve never been to another 9:03 meeting.

  Josh McDowell

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• I don’t like the slasher stuff, myself, but I do like the psychological horror of Roman Polanski and that world. But, it’s curious to me why people do like to be afraid.

  Dylan McDermott

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• Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I’d rather be out playing.

  George Bernard Shaw

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• I don’t really know why I’m not thinner than I am.

  Melissa McCarthy

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• I would describe myself as quite sane and lucid, which is why I’m still alive.

  John McAfee

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• Like Indiana Jones, I don’t like snakes – though that might lead some to ask why I’m in politics.

  Theresa May

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• Why are people so interested in other people’s relationships? It’s like stealing.

  Marlee Matlin

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• I don’t work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don’t work out.

  Natalie Massenet

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• If I told people that I knew what I was doing, nobody would believe me, so why even try and fake it?

  Andrew Mason

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• I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way.

  Steve Martin

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• My next book – each one while I’m working on it – dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn’t, why would I write it?

  Yann Martel

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• Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they’re doing and why they’re doing it.

  Yann Martel

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