Quotes with reasons

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  • Bill Burr Being a stand-up comic, this isn't a stepping-stone for me; it's what I do, and this is what I'm always going to do. And even if I do a TV show, the only reasons to do a TV show is to get more people to know me to come out to my stand-up shows.
    Bill Burr
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster (1968 - )
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  • Adam Duritz But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
    Adam Duritz
    American musician and record producer (1964 - )
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  • John Maynard Keynes But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital.
    The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936) Chap.XXIV
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Barry Malzberg Events, I say to the Captain, events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any motivation. Everything is blind chance, happenstance, occurrence; in an infinite universe anything can happen. After the fact we find reasons.
    Beyond Apollo Ch. 60
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  • Bill Buford For reasons I didn't understand, I felt I needed to learn how to cook the food of France and knew that I was going to have to get over to the country: to Paris, I'd always assumed.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Billy Eichner For some reasons, I have WWE wrestlers tweeting me all the time. Like, my biggest fans. Why they can connect with my love for Meryl Streep, I don't know.
    Billy Eichner
    American comedian, actor, and producer (1978 - )
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions - largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Branford Marsalis Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer I am a vegetarian for health reasons - the health of the chicken.
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • Jackie Mason I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.
    Jackie Mason
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1928 - 2021)
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  • Bruce Springsteen I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I'm with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Frank Moore Colby I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • Betty Grable I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.
    Betty Grable
    American actress, model, and singer (1916 - 1973)
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  • Vera Brittain I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
    Vera Brittain
    English nurse, writer, feminist, and pacifist (1893 - 1970)
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  • George Eliot I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Tony Bennett I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
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  • Anita Hill I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Brendan Fraser If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place.
    Brendan Fraser
    American and Canadian actor (1969 - )
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