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Telling people that I wanted to make dance music, or be on the radio, they looked at me like I was crazy because there was nothing like that in Lichtenstein when I was getting started. That's why I went to Germany, because there is industry there.
Al Walser
Music
Me
Crazy
People
Dance
Nothing
Dance Music
Telling
Like
Looked
Make
Industry
Because
Germany
Getting
Getting Started
Wanted
Radio
Why
Started
So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
Al Yankovic
Work
Funny
You
Writing
Own
Rules
Parody
Merit
Know
Material
Gotta
Source
Source Material
Regardless
Whether
Why
Just as I know the usual rules of law enforcement, I also know the exceptions and invoke those frequently. I don't feel a need to bog the reader down with an explanation of why the procedures are realistic, as long as I know that there is, in fact, an explanation.
Alafair Burke
Law
Long
Realistic
Down
Rules
Those
Law Enforcement
Fact
Exceptions
Feel
Invoke
Know
Also
Reader
Frequently
Just
In Fact
Procedures
Explanation
Enforcement
Usual
Why
Need
What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
Alain de Botton
Marriage
Married
About
Get
Get Married
Anyone
Wants
Fascinating
Why
There's something called religion, and it was invented a long time ago by people who felt very out of control with their lives, who didn't know... why the sun always rose over the mountains.
Alain de Botton
Time
Religion
People
Long
Long Time
Mountains
Control
Rose
Sun
Out
Something
Invented
Long Time Ago
Over
Know
Felt
Always
Very
Who
Why
Lives
Some of the reason why we marry the wrong people is that we don't really understand ourselves.
Alain de Botton
People
Ourselves
Marry
Some
Wrong
Understand
Really
Reason
Why
Parent and child may both love, but - unbeknown to the child - each party is on a different end of the axis. This is why, in adulthood, when we first long for 'love', what we mean is that we want to 'be loved' as we were once loved by a parent.
Alain de Botton
Love
Long
First
Party
Once
Parent
Both
Adulthood
Were
End
Child
May
Different
Want
Loved
Mean
Each
Why
Axis
Trying to be a sort of intellectual in the public arena is very irritating to people. They think, 'Why is this bugger on television?'
Alain de Botton
People
Think
Television
Arena
Sort
Intellectual
Very
Trying
Irritating
Public
Why
Why would you give money to somebody whose work you don't understand?
Alan Alda
Work
You
Money
Somebody
Would
Give
Understand
Whose
Why
I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did.
Alan Arkin
Me
Age
People
World
Analyze
Seven
Would
Tried
Performance
Did
Move
Six
Moved
Eight
Realize
Certain
Used
Certain Things
Even
Why
Things
Watch
I don't really know what it is about vampires that makes them such a powerful symbol, metaphor, whatever in people's consciousness. But I do know they're tremendously powerful. I mean, there's a vampire on 'Sesame Street.' And Count Chocula. I don't know why it's so powerful.
Alan Ball
People
Whatever
Tremendously
Vampire
Vampires
About
Count
Powerful
Know
Makes
Metaphor
Mean
Them
Really
Why
Street
Consciousness
Symbol
Sesame
Sesame Street
I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fallen in love with the architecture. It certainly wasn't out of some great sense of academic or intellectual achievement. In many ways, my education only began after I'd left university.
Alan Bennett
Love
Education
Great
Achievement
Architecture
Sense
Ways
Out
Some
Only
Fact
Had
Clear
Great Sense
Idea
Academic
Fallen
Go
Intellectual
Left
Began
Oxford
Wanted
After
Apart
Certainly
Many
Even
Why
University
People say to me, 'Why don't you fight fire with fire?' You fight fire with water, not fire.
Alan Colmes
Me
You
Fight
People
Water
Fire
Say
People Say
Why
There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term paper involving original research.
Alan Dundes
Research
Other
Paper
Folklore
More
Term
Involving
Courses
Than
Fieldwork
Require
Original
Why
I read very little contemporary anything... I don't think I read what other people read, but then why would I, considering what I do?
Alan Furst
People
Think
Other
Considering
Would
Contemporary
Read
Very
Anything
Little
Then
Why
Venice has always fascinated me. Every country in Europe then was run by kings and the Vatican except Venice, which was basically run by councils. I've always wondered why.
Alan Furst
Me
Country
Every
Run
Kings
Except
Vatican
Venice
Always
Wondered
Which
Then
Europe
Fascinated
Why
Basically
The Big Bang theory says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged.
Alan Guth
Big
Before
Nothing
Says
About
Big Bang
Bang
Happened
Theory
Why
In high school, I was the best broad jumper on our team, and I kind of thought that when I got to MIT, I'd probably still be the best broad jumper, 'cause why do broad jumpers come to MIT? But it turned out to actually be the other way around. There was another person in my class who could jump about 3 feet further than I could.
Alan Guth
Best
Class
School
Cause
Thought
Other
Broad
Our
Way
Further
Out
Kind
High
High School
About
Could
Feet
Come
Another
Around
Got
Still
MIT
Jump
Than
Person
Turned
Team
Who
Why
Actually
Why can't a woman be more like a man?
Alan Jay Lerner
Man
Woman
More
Like
Why
The reality is that people need to be coaxed toward a musical. They need to understand why it's a musical.
Alan Menken
Reality
People
Musical
Toward
Understand
Why
Need
I like Jacques Derrida; I think he's funny. I like my philosophy with a few jokes and puns. I know that that offends other philosophers; they think he's not taking things seriously, but he comes up with some marvellous puns. Why shouldn't you have a bit of fun while dealing with the deepest issues of the mind?
Alan Moore
Funny
You
Jokes
Seriously
Mind
Few
Think
Other
Philosophers
Philosophy
Bit
Puns
Some
Marvellous
He
Taking
Like
Know
Dealing
Issues
Up
Offends
Jacques
While
Fun
Why
Deepest
Things
One of the reasons why I don't leave Northampton is that the people don't treat me like a celebrity. I've been here for years; I'm just that bloke with long hair.
Alan Moore
Me
People
Treat
Long
Hair
Long Hair
Like
Leave
Been
Years
Bloke
Celebrity
Just
Reasons
Why
Here
Why don't they go ahead and change the name of the White House to the West House. They want to do away with the heritage of White Settlement and destroy the history of White Settlement.
Alan Price
History
Change
White
White House
Heritage
Settlement
Destroy
Name
House
Go
West
The History Of
Want
Why
Away
Typically in science, individual scientists make up their minds about scientific fact or theory one at a time. We don't take votes. We just don't vote on quantum mechanics, the theory of relativity, why the sky is blue, or anything else.
Alan Stern
Time
Vote
Science
Sky
Else
Minds
Relativity
About
Fact
Individual
Take
Votes
Make
Make Up
Quantum
Scientific
Quantum Mechanics
Scientific Fact
Scientists
Up
Blue
Just
Anything
Anything Else
Theory
Mechanics
Why
Why would you listen to an astronomer about a planet?
Alan Stern
You
Astronomer
Would
About
Listen
Planet
Why
Why work when you can fill out a few forms and get paid for doing nothing?
Alan Sugar
Work
You
Few
Nothing
Out
Doing
Get
Forms
Paid
Fill
Why
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