Quotes with --because

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  • Annie Leibovitz I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Gore Vidal I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that's the most important thing there is for middle-class people.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Alan Alda I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Buddy Hackett I found out that if you made people laugh, they like you. Most people got to like me because I made them laugh. When they didn't, I hit them.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Ann Bancroft I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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  • Bryan White I grew up with all kinds of music, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill.
    Bryan White
    American country music singer and songwriter (1974 - )
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  • Bryan White I grew up with all kinds ofmusic, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill.
    Bryan White
    American country music singer and songwriter (1974 - )
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  • Bryce Courtenay I guess my use-by date is just about up but if I could come back as a storyteller now, I would be jumping over the moon because wow, just think what's available.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Anthony Doerr I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Ace Frehley I had a feeling it was gonna work out because not only did I enjoy the music and hit it off with the guys, but I was into theatrical rock and was willing to wear makeup and do anything to make it.
    Ace Frehley
    American musician and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Bill Bryson I had to calm down because a state trooper pulled up alongside me at a traffic light and began looking at me with that sort of casual disdain you often get when you give a dangerously stupid person a gun and a squad car.
    Source: The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Georgia O'Keeffe I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
    Georgia O'Keeffe
    American painter and artist (1887 - 1986)
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  • Bruce Forsyth I hate the term 'arm candy.' But, look, a woman's figure is a beautiful thing, and if she has shapely legs, then she should show them off, because men love to see that. Not just heterosexual men - gay men like to see a woman in her beauty and the shape of her.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Bruce Willis I hate working out. Because I work out for films now solely I come to associate it with work.
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • August Strindberg I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Umberto Eco I have a good memory. But I would be interested in memory even if I had a bad memory, because I believe that memory is our soul. If we lose our memory completely, we are without a soul.
    Source:  (2015)
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Maxine Waters I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.
    Maxine Waters
     
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  • Woodrow Wilson I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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