Quotes with --because

Quotes 1201 till 1220 of 2303.

  • George Halas Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.
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  • Bob Woodward Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Adolf Galland Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Albert Ellis Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Siri Hustvedt Many writers over the centuries simply do not have the reputations they deserve because they were female, and that is an act of suppression.
    Siri Hustvedt
    American novelist and essayist (1955 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bayard Rustin Martin Luther King, with whom I worked very closely, became very distressed when a number of the ministers working for him wanted him to dismiss me from his staff because of my homosexuality.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Billie Jean King Martina's gone with people who don't want to be out, and it drives her crazy because she'd rather be open.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • John Wooden Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Andrew Wiles Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • George S. Patton May God have mercy uppon my enemies, because i won't.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Caroline Dhavernas Maybe because she doesn't try so hard to seduce and impress, I guess that's why some guys fell for her. Because she's so different and crazy and we all like a little bit of that in our life.
    Caroline Dhavernas
    Canadian actress (1978 - )
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  • Berenice Bejo Maybe I'll put my iPod in two minutes before. But truly, I've listened to actors say that they loved to listen to music before a shot, and I really understand that now because it puts you in the mood and gives you energy.
    Berenice Bejo
    French-Argentine actress (1976 - )
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch Maybe it's because I was an only child, but I've always wanted kids.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Bjork Maybe it's just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it's always going to be there. I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it's really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Ben Barnes Maybe Oliver Stone doesn't lend himself well to remakes or sequels, because he does them so well the first time.
    Ben Barnes
    English actor (1981 - )
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  • Blythe Danner Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way.
    Blythe Danner
    American actress (1943 - )
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  • B. D. Wong Maybe there are logical reasons for a gay person not to have a great relationship with their parents - not because there's a parent who made him gay, but just because it may be difficult to understand everything.
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Dave Barry Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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