Quotes with --because

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  • Carlos Fuentes Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Don Marquis Like all other zealous reformers we do what we do because we like doing it better than anything else.
    Source: The almost perfect state
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Carlisle Floyd Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Alexis Carrel Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • Bill Burr Like most comics, I tried to come up with a sitcom idea that was based around my life. And it didn't work out. But maybe because it didn't work out, that's why I ended up on 'Breaking Bad;' I don't know.
    Bill Burr
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster (1968 - )
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  • Allen Klein Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so much on ourselves and our problems that we get lost.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Avi Arad Listen, my day job is also Chief Creative Officer for Marvel, and it's a very painful job because we publish a lot of books, and there are things I see where I can punch people out. Therefore, we have some new people now, and the kids are going to read our books.
    Avi Arad
    Israeli-American businessman (1948 - )
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  • Carla Bley Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.
    Carla Bley
    American jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader (1936 - )
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  • Britt Ekland Little bitty bags are completely impractical - I like big slouchy bags because they have to be comfortable for my lovely wee Chihuahua Tequila, who comes everywhere with me. I'm devoted to him, now my kids have long since flown the nest.
    Britt Ekland
    Swedish actress and singer (1942 - )
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  • Jeremy Schwartz Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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  • Ben Schwartz Live-action is more fun for me, because you're acting with people. When you do voice-acting, many times you're not even in the room with the person that you're acting with.
    Ben Schwartz
    American actor, comedian, writer and producer (1981 - )
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  • Bow Wow LL Cool J was a rapper-turned-actor, and I also relate to him because he was sort of a ladies' man and had a female fan base, but yet he's a positive dude. You never read about him getting into trouble or going to jail.
    Bow Wow
    American rapper and actor (Shad Gregory Moss) (1987 - )
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  • George Burns Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.
    George Burns
    American Comedy Actor (1896 - 1996)
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  • Brad Bird Look, I think if you talk down to a kid or aim specifically at a kid, most kids aren't gonna like it, really, because most kids can feel when you are being patronizing.
    Brad Bird
    American animator, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Leo Tolstoy Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Rabbi Julins Gordon Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
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  • Anais Nin Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Bernard of Clairvaux Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    French abbot (1090 - 1153)
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  • Lord George Byron Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Lovers never get tired of each other because they are forever talking about themselves.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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