Quotes with --because

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  • C. K. Williams When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
    C. K. Williams
    American poet, critic and translator (1936 - 2015)
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  • Ben Folds When you don't care then
    You've got nothing to loose
    And I won't hesitate
    Because every moment life is slipping away
    It's okay.
    Source: Lyrics Theres Always Someone Cooler Than You, Supersunnys
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Woodrow Wilson When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Barbara de Angelis When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • Carl Stokes When you realize that people have that sort of feeling about you, that you're going to be some sort of savior from their dilemma, it's very sobering, because it imposes a great responsibility upon you.
    Carl Stokes
    American politician and diplomat (1927 - 1996)
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  • Barry Schwartz When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing, those people don't exist because you've crushed anyone's desire to do the right thing with all these incentives.
    Barry Schwartz
    American psychologist (1946 - )
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  • Bill Murray When you see grown men near to tears because they've missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh.
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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  • Wayne Dyer When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out - because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch When you start getting jobs, and see your mates from drama school, you don't really want to talk about it, because you have this innate sense of guilt that it's not fair that others aren't doing exactly what you're doing. I do have that.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Bill Paxton When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Georges Bernanos When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep!
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • Brenda Laurel When you work with web design companies in San Francisco, you end up with a bunch of twenty-somethings who have their own cultural peculiarities, including obscurity for its own sake. You give those guys a website for a banking institution and they screw it up, because they are designing for themselves.
    Brenda Laurel
    American video game designer and researcher (1950 - )
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  • Cass Elliot When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don't see the real people.
    Cass Elliot
    American singer and actress (1941 - 1974)
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  • Brett Ratner When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.
    Brett Ratner
    American director and producer (1969 - )
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  • Barry Hannah When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.
    Barry Hannah
    American novelist (1942 - 2010)
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  • Cate Blanchett When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Bootsy Collins When you're used to playing with people, when you're in a band, then you're used to playing with each other. People nowadays aren't used to playing with each other because they don't have to.
    Bootsy Collins
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Bo Schembechler When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.
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  • Berry Gordy Whenever I came up against presidents of other companies, I was always smarter, because I was from the streets.
    Berry Gordy
    American record executive, record and film producer and songwriter (1929 - )
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  • Carolyn Chute Whenever I write, I write what I find to be the way people are. I never use any symbolism at all, but if you write as true to life as you possibly can, people will see symbolism. They'll all see different symbolism, but they're apt to because you can see it in life.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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