Quotes with reasons

Quotes 61 till 80 of 135.

  • Bob Geldof Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Billy Idol My dad was one of the reasons I got into rock and roll, because I was learning the ropes of his business, which was selling powertools, and I was looking for a way out from under his heel. I was like, 'Where's the fun? Where's the glamour?'
    Billy Idol
    English musician, singer, songwriter, and actor (1955 - )
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  • Blake Farenthold My message on immigration is that the people who want to come to this country, by and large, even those who have done it illegally, are coming for the right reasons, not to take advantage of our welfare system.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard My mom always told me one of the reasons that she was really happy in her life was that, if Dad never worked again, she was confident that she could support the family.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Marquis de Custine Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.
    Marquis de Custine
    French aristocrat and writer
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  • A. J. P. Taylor No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Anthony Holden Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Bobby Hull Now we're doing it for different reasons. We're doing it to bring back the families to the game, people who love the game, and make it an affordable night's entertainment.
    Bobby Hull
    Canadian ice hockey player (1939 - )
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  • Carter Burwell On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.
    Carter Burwell
    American composer of film scores (1954 - )
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  • Alexander Pope On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Henry Miller One of the few reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of reacting, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Aldous Huxley One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Beyonce Knowles One of the reasons I connect to the Super Bowl is that I approach my shows like an athlete.
    Beyonce Knowles
    American singer and actress (1981 - )
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  • Al Sharpton One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Callie Khouri One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here, the hardest thing to go out and hear was country music. Country was taking place inside the studio and it was an export.
    Callie Khouri
    American film and television (1957 - )
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  • Maxwell Maltz One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • John W. Gardner One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • Cal Thomas One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
    Cal Thomas
    American columnist and author (1942 - )
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  • Ben Carson One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of them. On the table, the anatomy is so different from normal, that you're constantly trying to figure out, 'Can I cut this? Does this wire lead to what?' It's like trying to defuse a bomb.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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