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People ask me 'Why you want to do another magazine - 10 years at 'Vogue,' a great magazine? Why do you want to make a new one? It's so difficult and there's already so many.' I wanted to do something new, bring a new vision.
Carine Roitfeld
Great
Me
You
People
Vision
Difficult
Magazine
Something
Vogue
Something New
New
Make
Another
Years
New One
Want
Wanted
Ask
Many
Why
Bring
I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'
Carine Roitfeld
Great
Me
People
Writing
Picture
Great Artist
Extraordinary
Books
Say
Photo
Photo Shoots
Something
Am
Doing
Shoots
Artist
Just
Note
Ask
Painter
Why
Streets
Why would even I say we can't stop drilling in the Gulf? Because we have no alternatives. Whether or not we drill in the Gulf, or in Alaska, we will continue to wring the last out of anyplace else.
Carl Safina
Will
Else
Say
Out
Would
Gulf
Drill
Drilling
Wring
Alternatives
Because
Continue
Stop
Whether
Even
Why
Alaska
Last
I don't put on makeup when I'm getting ready for a game, because why would I? I am gearing up for battle. How is mascara or eyeliner going to help me win?
Carli Lloyd
Me
Game
Battle
Win
Would
Gearing
Mascara
Put
Because
Makeup
Ready
How
Am
Up
Getting
Going
Help
Why
You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.
Carlos Ghosn
You
Change
Three
Unless
Easily
Outcome
Implement
Steps
Clearly
How
Very
Forget
Offset
Going
Explain
Japan
Why
Need
I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
Carlos Ghosn
Me
You
Car
Know
Always
Been
Loved
Explain
Why
You can take my dirtiest, craziest joke, and I can break down in my head why there's a good, honest, honorable reason for telling it.
Carlos Mencia
Good
You
Joke
Down
Honorable
Telling
Dirtiest
Take
Head
Break
Craziest
Reason
Why
Honest
I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storytelling; it's different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Work
Words
King
Everything
Ways
Neil
See
Stephen King
Along
Sounds
Mixed
Just
Different
Interested
Storytelling
Using
Codes
Different Ways
Why
Images
I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
Carlos Santana
Me
People
Guitar
Long
Enough
Took
Melody
Tell
Would
Would-Be
Nevertheless
Come
Know
Singer
Conclusion
Lot
Get
Where
Decided
Now
Why
Here
Album
Playing
Albums
That's one of the reasons why 'Lost' has to end: because we can't sit around and envision, 'What is the flashback for Jack in year nine?' It doesn't realistically exist.
Carlton Cuse
Year
Lost
Sit
Nine
Envision
Because
Around
Exist
End
Jack
Flashback
Realistically
Reasons
Why
I look at so many people's feeds like, 'God, your life is so cool. Like, I want to do that! Why don't I get that?' And I will get envious of someone's life, and we don't think about the fact that it's completely - not fake, but it's one single screenshot of just the good times.
Carly Chaikin
Life
God
Good
People
Will
Single
Think
About
Someone
Fact
Good Times
Envious
Feeds
Like
Look
Fake
Times
Get
Just
Want
Your
Cool
Many
Why
One of the reasons why I love acting is my obsession with human emotion and faces and expressions - no surprise, then, that I usually end up painting faces. But I haven't done a self-portrait. I'd be too scared.
Carly Chaikin
Love
Painting
Too
Scared
Faces
Emotion
Obsession
Surprise
End
Up
Done
Human
Then
Acting
Reasons
Expressions
Why
I love games. When I first saw 'Celebrity Family Feud,' I literally, in all caps, emailed my team and was like, 'Why am I not on this?'
Carly Chaikin
Love
Family
First
Saw
Emailed
Like
Am
Celebrity
Feud
Literally
Games
Team
Caps
Why
The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.
Carly Fiorina
Truth
Truth Is
Money
Internet
Taxpayer
Every
Think
Programs
Meet
Ought
Everyone
Spent
Released
See
Percent
Objectives
Federal
Put
Fail
Budget
Know
Said
How
Up
Report
Just
Which
Agency
Taxpayer Money
Washington
Why
Why give a million dollars to someone if they have not proved that they can make a million dollars?
Carmen Busquets
Someone
Give
Make
Proved
Dollars
Why
Million
Million Dollars
If we do no mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well?
Carol P. Christ
God
Objections
Masculine
Well
Female
Male
Any
Mean
Then
Should
Use
Using
Why
Imagery
When I was younger, I was kind of fearless. I think it takes more courage to do things when you know more. I was completely naive, and I was like, 'Why can't I do anything I want to do?'
Carole King
You
Courage
Think
Kind
Fearless
More
Takes
Naive
Like
Know
Want
Anything
Younger
Why
Things
When you're wearing something you feel comfortable in, you move better. That's why the most important accessory you can have is a full-length mirror.
Carolina Herrera
You
Better
Mirror
Important
Wearing
Something
Feel
Most
Comfortable
Accessory
Move
The Most Important
Why
Why do I find the fantasy - husband, family, kids - exhausting instead of alluring? Is there something wrong with me? Do I have a life?
Caroline Knapp
Life
Family
Me
Husband
Kids
Find
Something
Alluring
Wrong
Instead
Exhausting
Fantasy
Why
If I didn't love tennis, I wouldn't be playing. That's also why I don't know how long I will be playing because if I start feeling like this is not what I want to do anymore, that there's not really any reason anymore.
Caroline Wozniacki
Love
Will
Long
Feeling
Tennis
Like
Know
Also
Because
How
Any
Want
Anymore
Really
Reason
Why
Start
Playing
Because school was so terrible was probably why I was driven to write.
Carolyn Chute
School
Write
Driven
Terrible
Because
Why
People say, 'Well, why don't they get another job, why don't they pick themselves up by their bootstraps?' Well, the people that say that probably have the kind of jobs where they don't work that hard, so maybe they could have another job.
Carolyn Chute
Work
People
Job
Say
Jobs
Kind
Bootstraps
People Say
Could
Pick
Well
Another
Up
Get
Maybe
Where
Themselves
Hard
Why
The reasons why images are so primal and people immediately relate to it is that we are exquisitely engineered to interpret information that is arrayed in two dimensions. That's our eyesight. That's how our eye-brain system works. So it immediately feels to us when we look at an image like we have extended our senses.
Carolyn Porco
People
Relate
Our
Immediately
Dimensions
System
Eyesight
Primal
Feels
Like
Look
How
Senses
Information
Us
Engineered
Reasons
Works
Why
Exquisitely
Extended
Interpret
Image
Images
Two
Science is not the means by which we come to understand why physical laws and circumstances are the way they are. When we ask why - assuming the question is really 'why' and not 'how' - we are really asking to know the motive of some responsible agent capable of reason.
Carolyn Porco
Science
Assuming
Way
Circumstances
Responsible
Physical
Some
Laws
Come
Know
Understand
How
Motive
Question
Which
Capable
Agent
Ask
Asking
Really
Means
Reason
Why
We can have fun speculating about why things are the way they are but don't look to science to provide any answers.
Carolyn Porco
Science
Have Fun
Way
About
Look
Answers
Provide
Any
Fun
Why
Things
When my father came out to his mom, my grandmother said, 'You waited for your father to die; why couldn't you have waited for me to die?' I knew then that I never want to contribute to the corrosiveness of wanting someone to stay hidden.
Carrie Brownstein
Mom
Me
You
Father
Hidden
Out
Stay
Someone
Never
Knew
Said
Came
His
Waited
Contribute
Die
Want
Wanting
Then
Grandmother
Your
Why
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