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“It always seemed to me like it was a significant thing to do with one's life to be an actor 'cause I love movies and I felt like, not to be grandiose about it, but there is something important about film with the function it provides to general society.”

Important Film Actors Felt Causes Function Significant Things To Do Movie Love Grandiose Significant Things

Author:Charlie Hunnam

“When you see someone dying in front of you from a direct and simple cause, it's easier to deal with [that] than famine or drought or a more indirect cause. It's overwhelming and frightening and kind of distant, but we do see it every day with plants and animals and species dying.”

Kind Causes Simple Animal Deals Dying Fronts Easier Direct Plant Species Overwhelming Frightening Famine Drought Indirect Plants And Animals Someone Dying

Author:John H Richardson

“A lot of people are listening and most people believe global warming is a problem and they'd like to see it addressed. But governments and the biggest companies in the world don't want to deal with it like they didn't want to deal with the fact that tobacco causes cancer.”

People World Want Believe Facts Problem Government Causes Deals Company Listening Cancer Global Warming Tobacco

Author:John H Richardson

“I can't tell the difference between the best and the worst 'cause I realize not everybody wants to have sex in the middle of a demolition derby race in the car.”

Want I Can Sex Causes Realizing Differences Race Middle Worst Car Derby Demolition Demolition Derby

Author:John Waters

“People see me as pretty low key in a lot of ways. And for me, like, even choosing to be John Legend and to be who I am as a star, as an artist, it's a risk 'cause I - you know, I graduated from college and worked as a management consultant, and I could have had this very kind of buttoned-up life and worn suits to work every day.”

People Knows Way Kind Artist Stars Causes Risk College Keys Lows Management Who I Am Suits Legends Worn Consultants Low Key

Author:John Legend

“The instability in the region is not a result of Israel and the Palestinians. That was never the cause of this instability. Instead, the disfunctionality of many of these societies that have failed to modernize.”

Causes Results Israel Regions Palestinian Instability

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“The most creative and most periods of my life that were, had the most growth, were the ones where I was perceived to be failing. Perceived success is a, is really hard 'cause it doesn't really, it's not asking you to grow, see failure is asking you to grow.”

Hard Grows Causes Growth Creative Failing Periods Asking

Author:Ethan Hawke

“I try to stay with it and I try to stay in contact with comedians and just keep comedians in my life 'cause comedians are their own species. If you get away from them, especially as a comedian, I think it's dangerous.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Causes Dangerous Species Contact Comedian Get Away

Author:Chris Rock

“Radio is better than writing because they can't lie. Cause sometimes writers be straight lying, bro, and these headlines be making me mad.”

Writing Sometimes Lying Causes Mad Radio Headlines Bros

Author:Vince Staples

“Somebody said the prospect of eminent death has a wonderful clarifying effect on the mind. And I don't know if that's true, but I do think it probably causes some changes, some evolution in the way a person works. But on a day-by-day basis, I just still enjoy doing what I'm doing.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Mind Persons Said Stills Causes Enjoy Wonderful Effects Evolution Bases Clarifying

Author:Stephen King

“Ressentiment is a self-poisoning of the mind which has quite definite causes and consequences. It is a lasting mental attitude, caused by the systematic repression of certain emotions and affects which, as such are normal components of human nature. Their repression leads to the constant tendency to indulge in certain kinds of value delusions and corresponding value judgments. The emotions and affects primarily concerned are revenge, hatred, malice, envy, the impulse to detract, and spite.”

Source: On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings

“I'm trying to cause people to be interested in the particulars of their lives because I think that's one thing literature can do for us. It can say to us: pay attention. Pay closer attention. Pay stricter attention to what you say to your son.”

People Thinking Trying Literature Causes Can Do Pay Attention One Thing Son Pay Attention Your Son

Author:Richard Ford

“I don't feel a day older when it comes to my approach to music or what gets me off than when I was a teenager. I've always been into different kinds of stuff and when I play I like to play loud. I like my arm hairs to move and I like my body to vibrate 'cause I like the feel of it; I'm still a teenager at heart.”

Feels Heart Kind Stills Different Play Body Moving Causes Stuff Hair Arms Approach Teenager Loud Different Kinds Vibrate

Author:Eddie Van Halen

“Fear in the mind causes stress in the body.”

Mind Body Causes Stress

Author:Mark Driscoll

“The only band I was really over-into was Cream. And the only thing I really liked about them was their live stuff 'cause they played two verses, then go off and jam for 20 minutes, come back and do a chorus and end. And I love the live jam stuff, the improvisation.”

Two Ends Causes Stuff Minutes Band Verses Cream Jam Improvisation Chorus

Author:Eddie Van Halen

“Know verily that the purpose underlying all these symbolic terms and abstruse allusions, which emanate from the revealers of Gods holy cause, hath been to test and prove the peoples of the world; that thereby the earth of the pure and illuminated hearts may be known from the perishable and barren soil.”

Knows World Heart May Earth Purpose Causes Term Known Holy Pure Prove Tests Soil Symbolic Barren Allusion Emanate

Author:Bahá'u'lláh

“The Houston Astros want to change the name of Enron Field where they play. I guess the Enron name could cause problems for them. Like players could steal a base and then deny it.”

Want Play Problem Names Causes Player Fields Deny Stealing Houston Enron

Author:Jay Leno

“religion is to misogyny as disease is to misery - not the sole cause, but a significant contributor”

Causes Disease Misery Significant Sole Misogyny Contributors

Book:The Happy Atheist

Source: The Happy Atheist

“Loving the ideal more than the reality is the cause of all the misery the human species creates for itself.”

Humans Reality Causes Ideals Misery Species Human Species

Author:Dean Koontz

“But, brothers, this biting of their toe-nails over what is the CAUSE of badness is what turns me into a fine laughing malchick. They don't go into what is the cause of GOODNESS, so why of the other shop?”

Turns Causes Laughing Brother Fine Goodness Shops Nails Toes Biting Badness Turn Me

Book:A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)

Source: A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)

“Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.”

Mind States Seems Causes Hurt Loss Ego Aspect Corners Fear Of Death Fear Of Failure Annihilation Around The Corner Being Hurt

Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Silence is what causes most of humanity's problems”

Problem Humanity Causes Silence Silence Is

Book:Teardrop

Source: Teardrop

“It's rooted in my blood to consume you and be consumed by you. To protect you. To please you, in every way. To make you shiver when I touch you. To cause your heart to beat faster.”

Way Heart Causes Blood Please Protect Beats Faster Rooted Consumed Protect You Shiver

Book:Significance: A Significance Novel

Source: Significance: A Significance Novel

“Financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated. Long-run salvation by men of business has never been highly regarded if it means disturbance of orderly life and convenience in the present. So inaction will be advocated in the present even though it means deep trouble in the future. Here, at least equally with Communism, lies the threat to Capitalism. It is what causes men who know that things are going quite wrong to say that things are fundamentally sound.”

Ifs Knows Men Mean Long Running Political Lying Causes Sound Trouble Capitalism Capacity Salvation Threat Financial Communism Long Runs Convenience Inaction Orderly Disturbance

Book:The great crash, 1929

Source: The great crash, 1929

“Someplace between apathy and anarchy is the stance of the thinking human being; he does embrace a cause, he does take a position, and can't allow it to become business as usual. Humanity is our business.”

Thinking Humans Doe Humanity Causes Human Beings Position Embrace Anarchy Usual Apathy Stance

Author:Rod Serling

“I asked: 'What is the meaning of my life, beyond time, cause, and space?' And I replied to quite another question: 'What is the meaning of my life within time, cause, and space?' With the result that, after long efforts of thought, the answer I reached was: 'None'.”

Long Causes Space Answers Results Effort What Is The Meaning

Book:The Spiritual Works of Leo Tolstoy: A Confession, The Kingdom of God is Within You, What I Believe, Christianity and Patriotism, Reason and Religion, The Gospel in Brief and more: Lessons on What it Means to be a True Christian From the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of War and Peace & Anna Karenina (Including Letter to a Kind YouthandCorrespondences with Gandhi)

Source: The Spiritual Works of Leo Tolstoy: A Confession, The Kingdom of God is Within You, What I Believe, Christianity and Patriotism, Reason and Religion, The Gospel in Brief and more: Lessons on What it Means to be a True Christian From the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of War and Peace & Anna Karenina (Including Letter to a Kind YouthandCorrespondences with Gandhi)

“In consigning Elian back to slavery without a hearing, this administration is setting back the cause of freedom -- in this country and in Cuba.”

Country Causes Slavery Hearing Setting Settings Administration Cuba

Author:David Limbaugh

“Disregarding the value of religion and believing in egalitarianism are two misconceptions that cause America much trouble today.”

Believe Two Today America Values Causes Trouble Misconception Egalitarianism

Author:Charley Reese

“A man once jumped from the top floor of a burning house in which many members of his family had already perished. He managed to save his life; but as he was falling he hit a person standing down below and broke that person's legs and arms. The jumping man had no choice; yet to the man with the broken limbs he was the cause of his misfortune. If both behaved rationally, they would not become enemies.”

Ifs Men Persons Choices Fall House Causes Enemy He Man Broken Arms Members Standing Legs Burning Broke Misfortunes Jumping Limbs Burning House Standing Down

Author:Isaac Deutscher

“The mass media causes sexual misdirection: It prompts us to need something deeper than what we want. This is why Woody Allen has made nebbish guys cool; he makes people assume there is something profound about having a relationship based on witty conversation and intellectual discourse. There isn't. It's just another gimmick, and it's no different than wanting to be with someone because they're thin or rich or the former lead singer of Whiskeytown.”

Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

“When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.”

Feels School Causes Support Youth Adults Unusual Dictator Textbooks Slipping Impressionable Enlisting

Author:Samantha Power

“Mother Teresas detractors have accused her of overemphasizing Calcuttans destitution and of coercing conversion from the defenseless. In the context of lost causes, Mother Teresa took on battles she knew she could win. Taken together, it seems to me, the criticisms of her work do not undermine or topple her overall achievement.”

Seems Together Mother Winning Lost Causes Taken Battle Achievement Criticism Conversion Accused Defenseless Teresa Lost Cause

Author:Bharati Mukherjee

“The effect of speech upon the condition of the soul is comparable to the power of drugs over the nature of bodies. For just as different drugs dispel different secretions from the body, and some bring an end to disease and others to life, so also in the case of speeches, some distress, others delight, some cause fear, others make the hearers bold, and some drug and bewitch the soul with a kind of evil persuasion.”

Kind Different Soul Ends Body Evil Causes Cases Conditions Effects Drug Speech Disease Delight Distress Persuasion

Author:Gorgias

“When one is young, aspiring to play for the country, doing well, any hindrance, like injury or being out of form, can be frustrating and a cause of annoyance or even anger. But once you have a close encounter with death, you realise the real value of life.”

Wells Real Country Play Form Young Values Causes Encounters Injury Realising Frustrating Hindrance Annoyance Value Of Life Real Value Close Encounters

Author:Yuvraj Singh

“African Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Problem Causes Racism Decided African American Family Problems

Author:Bebe Moore Campbell

“The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many. The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved. The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.”

Ifs Way Trying States Reason Pain Hate Causes Secret Forever Lovers Truth Is Relation Beloved Crave

Author:Carson McCullers

“My mother was a great advocate of womens rights, a member of the League of Womens Voters and lifelong member of Planned Parenthood and an advocate of a womans rights in terms of reproductive issues. She was also a founding member of Common Cause in the state of Indiana.”

States Mother Causes Term Common Issues Rights Members League Voters Parenthood Womens Rights Founding Lifelong Indiana Planned Parenthood

Author:Kathryn Lasky

“Go on, now, go. Walk out the door. Just turn around now, 'cause you're not welcome anymore. Weren't you the one who tried to hurt me with 'goodbye?' Did you think I'd crumble? Did you think I'd lay down and die? I will survive.”

Thinking Dies Turns Causes Hurt Walks Doors Goes On Down And Lays Welcome Goodbye Hurt Me

Author:Gloria Gaynor

“Don't make your wedding a pleasant memory in this life but a source of misery in the next. Make it an eternally good memory. In trying to have a halal wedding, you might sacrifice many relationships but the opposite might mean sacrificing the only relationship that will matter in the hereafter for a bunch of people who don't even really care about you. Don't make one night the cause of your regret for an eternity.”

“Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.”

Author:Manly Hall

“You've gotta know happy. You've gotta know sad. 'Cause you're gonna know lonely and you're gonna know sad”

Knows Causes Lonely

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

“When you talk about obesity, there's so many things that can cause that. It can be a medical thing, or down to the individual. There's a lot of other things involved than eating a Mars bar.”

Individual Causes Involved Eating Medical Bars Mars Obesity

Author:Peter Shilton

“So much for the right books; the right use of them is another matter. The children must enjoy the book. The ideas it holds must each make that sudden, delightful impact upon their minds, must cause that intellectual stir, which mark the inception of an idea.”

Mind Children Book Ideas Matter Use Causes Enjoy Intellectual Mark Impact Delightful Inception

Book:School Education

Source: School Education

“So hold me Jesus, 'cause I'm shaking like a leaf. You have been King of my glory won't You be my Prince of Peace.”

Has Beens Jesus Causes Kings Glory Leafs Shaking Hold Me Prince Of Peace

Author:Rich Mullins

“Every year Steve Kaufman supports the charity “Love Ride” by donating a painting to this cause.”

Years Causes Support Painting Charity

Author:Jay Leno

“Cause everbody care. Black, white, deep down we all do.”

Care Causes Black White Deep Down Black White

Book:The Help

Source: The Help

“I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.”

World Causes Boys Surprise My Boys

Book:The Help

Source: The Help

“I think I was one of those kids that I might not fight you if you stepped on my shoes or stole my lunch money or that kind of stuff. But if you picked on a girl or something like that, that would cause me to rear up a little bit.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Littles Might Kids Girl Fighting Causes Stuff Bits Little Bit Shoes Lunch

Author:Will Shields

“Any inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity.”

Ends Causes Insanity Neurosis Inhibitions

Book:Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“The cause of homelessness is lack of housing.”

Causes Housing Homelessness

Book:Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America

Source: Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America