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Author:Oprah Winfrey

“The reason I speak out is because it's necessary. I feel like it's my responsibility. I feel like it's what I'm put here to do. Even on a simpler level, I feel like why can't we speak on what we feel is right or what's wrong? What's wrong with that?”

Reason Speak Responsibility

Author:Joey Badass

“The reason I spend thousands of lifetime hours creating something 99 percent of which no one else is likely to ever read is that writing itself is the gift.”

Writing Reason Hours Creating Percent Lifetime Creating Something

Author:Christina Baldwin

Source: Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives Through the Power and Practice of Story

“The reason I start a novel is because there's something that excites me and I want to explore it.”

Reason Novel

Author:Ned Beauman

“The reason I started to do comics for kids, the real reason is because it worked for me.”

Real Reason Kids

Author:Francoise Mouly

“The reason I started with prostitutes was solely to work on my negotiating skills. Once I mastered negotiating with naked women, dealing with Interscope was a piece of cake.”

Reason Pieces Skills Naked Cake Negotiating

Author:Rivers Cuomo

“The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored.”

Writing Kind Reason Bored Movie

Author:Scott Caan

“The reason I started writing was because I was a little kid in San Diego who was getting beaten up by her dad and sexually abused and because I felt different than everybody else and I had this big huge secret that was tearing me apart.”

Writing Littles Different Reason Bigs Kids Felt Secret Huge Dad Beaten Little Kid Sexually San Diego

Author:Dorianne Laux

“The reason I still work at this stage of life is because I enjoy learning something new each day.”

Stills Reason Life Is Enjoy Stage Each Day Something New Stages Of Life Learning Something New

Author:Clint Eastwood

“The reason I stop playing songs is usually because I get sick of them, and then they find themselves back into the set list at some point.”

Reason Song Sick Lists Folds

Author:Ben Folds

“The reason I stopped modeling was because I was not pleased with trying to portray something that is impossible to reach. Even when I do photo shoots now for films, I am just not interested in trying to look my best all the time anymore. That pursuit of an impossible perfection seems ridiculous to me now. I would rather show my vulnerabilities or my doubts than try to be something that no one is.”

Trying Looks Reason Shows Seems Film Doubt Impossible Perfection Ridiculous Pursuit Vulnerability Not Interested Modeling Photo Shoots

Author:Diane Kruger

“The reason I stopped modeling was because I wasn't pleased with trying to portray something that is impossible to reach. Even when I do photo shoots now for films, I'm just not interested in trying to look my best all the time anymore. That pursuit of an impossible perfection seems ridiculous to me now. I'd rather show my vulnerabilities or my doubts than try to be something that no one is.”

Trying Reason Film Doubt Impossible Perfection Ridiculous Vulnerability Not Interested Modeling

Author:Diane Kruger

“The reason I take pride for that is one of the things you worry about when you're in the bubble, and there's all this pomp and circumstance and hail to the chief is, do you lose touch with what you thought was important and what brought you here? And I'm proud that I don't think I have lost touch.”

Thinking Important Reason Lost Loses Worry Pride Proud Circumstances Chiefs Bubbles Hail

Author:Barack Obama

“The reason I talk so much about the middle class is it's the glue that holds America together. It really is. And we don't speak enough to their legitimate concerns.”

Reason Enough Together America Speak Class Middle Concern Middle Class Glue

Author:Joe Biden

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”

Humor Truth Lying Lies Insanity Self Indulgence

Author:George Carlin

“The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept.”

Inspirational Reason Truth Funny Lying Answers Accepting Genuine Comedian Fidgeting

Author:George Carlin

Source: Napalm & Silly Putty

“The reason I think I'm a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Period. That's what you do to pitch. That's what pitchers have to do to win games”

Thinking Reason Games Winning Sports Periods Baseball Speed Location Pitcher Fastballs Baseball Pitching

Author:Greg Maddux

“The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies.”

Reason Facts Film Cities Company New York Produce Lows Direct Productions Budgets Movie New York City

Author:Fisher Stevens

“The reason I trained so hard in school was so that I could be versatile and play any character. With all these in my bag, I'm like a chameleon. I always tell other young actors to go to school, or at least watch movies to learn as much as you can.”

Reason Character School Chameleon

Author:Rutina Wesley

“The reason I trust so much is that I don't feel like I have anything to hide. If somebody betrays that trust, it could never be so bad, because I don't keep any secrets.”

Ifs Feels Reason Secret Betray

Author:Kate Hudson

“The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny.”

Mean Reason Turns Comedy Thousand Hundred Romantic Scripts Romantic Love Mean Girls Very Romantic

Author:Hugh Grant

“The reason I use ed is that I don't want to lose what's on the screen.”

Want Reason Use Loses Screens

Author:Bill Joy

“The reason I vote Democrat is because I think it's better to pay billions for oil to people who hate us, but not drill our own because it might upset some endangered beetle, gopher, or fish here in America. We don't care about the beetles, gophers, or fish in those other countries.”

People Thinking Country Reason Might Care America Hate Pay Vote Democrat Fishes Don't Care Oil Billions Upset Voting Other Countries Drills Beetles Gophers

Author:David Letterman

“The reason I want to be alone, is I'm tired of all the things that went wrong that would've went right if I had did 'em on my own”

Ifs Want Reason My Own Tired Ems Nasty I'm Tired Wants To Be Alone

Author:Nas

“The reason I want to explain that you're probably never going to get revenge a sociopath and you're also probably not going to redeem this person, is that it is not a project that will ever succeed. At present, if a person does not have a conscience, we know of no way to instill one - not even a little bit. It's not like something you can take off the shelf and put into somebody's brain. It makes me so sad to hear people say, "I think I can see just a little bit of a conscience."”

People Thinking Reason Brain Succeed Conscience Revenge Sociopath So Sad

Author:Martha Stout

“The reason I want you to put a shirt on is, well, because, um..." "You've never seen a guy with his shirt off?" "Ha, ha. Very funny. Believe me, you don't have anything I haven't seen before." "Wanna bet?" he says, then moves his hands to the button on his jeans and pops it open. Isabel walks in at that exact moment. "Whoa, Alex. Please keep your pants on.”

Want Believe Wells Reason Moments Hands Moving Guy Walks Havens Please Pops Shirts Pants Believe In Me I Want You Buttons Jeans Alex Alex Fuentes Shirt Off

Author:Simone Elkeles

Source: Perfect Chemistry

“The reason I wanted to be an actor is that I don't want to play me for the rest of my life and make money out of that.”

Want Reason Play Wanted Actors Making Money

Author:James D'arcy

“The reason I wanted to become an organ player was because I heard Ray Charles play on Quincy Jones' arrangement of "One Mint Julep." I heard that sound, and it just struck me. I thought that's what I want to do with my life. That's the sound I want to try to make.”

Want Trying Reason Play Wanted Sound Player Heard Rays Organs Arrangements Mint Mint Juleps

Author:Booker T. Jones

“The reason I was able to give up smoking was because of the computer. You couldn't lean a cigarette on a computer, like you could on a typewriter. So it just made it that much more difficult to smoke. So I quit.”

Giving Made Reason Able Difficult Like You Giving Up Computer Quitting Made It Smoke Smoking Cigarette Typewriters I Quit Giving Up Smoking

Author:Robert Stone

“The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply.”

Persons Reason Able Grows Hours Minutes Television Wine Mail Single Person Replying

Author:Gary Vaynerchuk

“The reason I was in most of the movies I've done is that they paid for me to be in the theater.”

Reason Done Paid Theater

Author:Nathan Lane

“The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I should spend as much time on a blogger with a million-person readership as I would pitching an editor of a publication with a million person subscription-base.”

Should Firsts Persons Book Reason Millions Successful Editors Publication Pitching Bloggers Launching Readership Subscription

Author:Tim Ferriss

“The reason I went for Jenny Craig is I thought, Maybe I'm not the only one who has stupid reasons for getting fat.”

Reason Stupid Fats Jenny

Author:Kirstie Alley

“The reason I went to an all-boys Catholic school was because they had the best football team. We won the state championship my junior year. It was super-competitive. We lost in the semifinals my senior year, and it still haunts me.”

Years Stills States Reason School Lost Boys Team Football Catholic Championship Senior Juniors Best Football Football Team Catholic School Senior Year Junior Year

Author:Theo Rossi

“The reason I wouldn't dare to write a Western is simply because that seems to be so much a part of American culture. Maybe if I want to write a Western enough I should try to overcome that fear, but I'll certainly feel like I'm trespassing. I feel that that is so much a part of American foundation myth, it's part of the myth of America, the American vision of what America is, which people have glorified and then challenged and then vilified.”

People Writing Trying Reason Enough Culture Vision Overcoming Western Dare Myth American Culture

Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

“The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.”

Writing Reason Emotion Dialogue

Author:Etgar Keret

“The reason I write music with one note occurring every 24 hours is that slow dancing is a lost art, and I'm trying to bring it back at an almost inaudible pace. Listen like a duck swims or you'll miss the best part of the song.”

Music Absurd Swim Swimming Ducks Duck Duck Quote Duck Quotes

Author:Jarod Kintz

Source: Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.

“The reason I wrote Lean In is I think people weren't actually noticing that we had stopped making progress. I gave a TED talk and said: "It turns out men still run the world." And the audience gasped as if that was news.”

People Thinking Men World Reason Running Audience Progress Noticing

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it - politics - was important... that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.”

Important Book Reason Political Policy Radio Satire Public Policy Political Satire

Author:Al Franken

“The reason I'm a Democrat is because the essence of the Democratic Party is an abhorrence for the abuse of power on the one hand, and the notion that everyone's entitled to be treated with dignity. That message never got through.”

Reason Hands Party Messages Dignity Essence Abuse Democratic Democrat Notion Treated Entitled Democratic Party Abuse Of Power Abhorrence

Author:Joe Biden

“The reason I'm a psychologist is based in part on my telephone routines. Much of my humor comes out of reaction to what other people are saying. A psychologist is a man who listens, who is sympathetic.”

People Men Reason Reactions Telephones Sympathetic Psychologist

Author:Bob Newhart

“The reason I'm a Yankee is that George Steinbrenner out hustled everybody else.”

Reason Yankees New York Yankees

Author:Reggie Jackson

“The reason I'm an actor is because I'll never be able to be perfect.”

Reason Able Actors Perfect

Author:Sam Claflin

“The reason I'm disabled is because I have wounds and injuries that I got while on active duty ... from parachute jumping to combat to gunshot wounds, all that stuff.”

Reason Stuff Duty Active Wounds Injury Combat Jumping Disabled Parachutes Gunshots

Author:Richard Carmona

“The reason I'm doing a sitcom is because it's much more approachable.”

Reason Sitcom

Author:Tommy Wiseau

“The reason I'm here today, the reason I own a brand new Harley-Davidson motorcycle and the reason I have a big log cabin and I got cars and all kinds of stuff is because I'm a writer and writers own everything. So you learn how to write.”

Writing Kind Reason Bigs Today Stuff Car All Kinds Brands Motorcycle Brand New Cabins Harley Log Cabins Harley Davidson

Author:Dan Aykroyd

“The reason I'm in this business, I assume all performers are -- it's Look at me, Ma! It's acceptance, you know -- Look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma. And if your mother watches, you'll show off till you're exhausted; but if your mother goes, Ptshew!”

Ifs Knows Looks Reason Shows Mother Watches Acceptance Assuming Entertainment Performers Exhausted Look At Me Showing Off

Author:Lenny Bruce

“The reason I'm interested in alternative worlds and near-future settings is that it allows us to look at our own limitations in our worldviews. These settings allow me to explore how our world might evolve if we allow individualistic kinds of success to remain our primary value. I'm not trying to be overly bleak, and I don't feel bleak or sad about our world. I want empowered and educated people who understand a lot about the world's challenges to strive to be noble, rather than cynical. I think we still need more champions out there.”

“The reason I'm not a neurobiologist but a cognitive psychologist is that I think looking at brain tissue is often the wrong level of analysis. You have to look at a higher level of organization.”

Thinking Looks Reason Levels Brain Higher Organization Analysis Psychologist Cognitive Tissues Higher Level

Author:Steven Pinker

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