Quotes with --because

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  • Beatrice Wood The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.
    Beatrice Wood
    American artist (1893 - 1998)
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  • Barry Gibb The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.
    Barry Gibb
    British-American musician and singer-songwriter (1946 - )
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  • Bruce Forsyth The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Bill Dedman The senior thesis of Hillary D. Rodham, Wellesley College class of 1969, has been speculated about, spun, analyzed, debated, criticized and defended. But rarely has it been read, because for the eight years of Bill Clinton's presidency it was locked away.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Walter Lippmann The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Bertrand Russell The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • William Hazlitt The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • John W. Gardner The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • Ben Gibbard The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the song because they're so seamless and clever.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Antoine Fuqua The story is also about the battle between Arthur and the Saxons. The Saxons were destroying everything they came across and Arthur was left when Rome was falling because this movie takes place in 400 A.D.
    Antoine Fuqua
    American film director and producer (1966 - )
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  • Carlisle Floyd The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Bob Seger The studio is really fun because I don't make it into the studio unless I've got something I really like. I love working with different musicians in the studio; that's a real joy, working with someone for the first time.
    Bob Seger
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1945 - )
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  • Charles E. Popplestone The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.
    Charles E. Popplestone
    American author
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  • Samuel Johnson The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut The telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
    Source: Interviewed J. Rentilly (sept. 2002)
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Ann Macbeth The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form and also as an industry with a pure commercial base.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Arthur Miller The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • George Santayana The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Ben Whishaw The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you're always playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You're always protected.
    Ben Whishaw
    English actor (1980 - )
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  • Augusto Roa Bastos The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.
    Augusto Roa Bastos
    Paraguayan novelist and writer (1917 - 2005)
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