Quotes with --because

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  • Anita Loos I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever.
    Anita Loos
    American writer, screenwriter (1889 - 1981)
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  • Brigitte Bardot I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • Bruno Mars I really wish I knew what I was doing because I'd be writing hit songs every minute.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people’s hands, people used to be shocked because they’d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.
    Diana Spencer Princess of Wales
    British princess
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  • Aileen Wuornos I robbed them, and I killed them as cold as ice, and I would do it again, and I know I would kill another person because I've hated humans for a long time.
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  • George F. Will I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres in life.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Dorothy Parker I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Hilaire Belloc I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.
    Hilaire Belloc
    British Author (1870 - 1953)
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  • Burt Bacharach I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.
    Burt Bacharach
    American composer, songwriter and pianist (1928 - 2023)
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  • Audre Lorde I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Annie Leibovitz I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Andy Warhol I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • A. N. Wilson I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Herb Caen I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.
    Herb Caen
    American journalist (1916 - 1997)
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  • Bryan Cogman I tend to write the episodes in the middle of the season, which can be a challenge because you've got to balance all these threads that have begun - and also make sure they will make sense with the overall plan going forward.
    Bryan Cogman
    American writer and producer (1979 - )
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  • Mark Twain I think a compliment ought to always precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita I think almost all strategic problems could at least be improved upon if people would do more careful game-theoretic analysis. The reason game theory works in predicting is because people intuit how to behave game-theoretically.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • Jung Chang I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about.
    Jung Chang
    Chinese-born British writer (1952 - )
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  • Aung San Suu Kyi I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That's not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians.
    Aung San Suu Kyi
    Burmese politician (1945 - )
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  • Jimmy Carter I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn't re-elected.
    Jimmy Carter
    American statesman, 39e President (1924 - )
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