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“I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I'm an actor, that's all. I just do what I do.”

People Want Shows Certain Actors Roles Issues Motive Ulterior Motive

Author:Sally Field

“What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.”

Believe Motive Pretext

Book:Tragic Sense of Life

Source: Tragic Sense of Life

“Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and lay open the soul of the doer.”

Soul Simple Lays Folks Deeds Motive Prize Doers Discounts

Author:John Barth

“The men who made the Industrial Revolution are usually pictured as hardfaced businessmen with no other motive than self-interest. That is certainly wrong. For one thing, many of them were inventors who had come into business that way.”

Men Way Made Self Interest One Thing He Man Revolution Selfishness Motive Businessman Self Interest Inventor Industrial Revolution

Book:The Ascent of Man

Source: The Ascent of Man

“In rural areas the majority of the victims of violent crime know their assailants (indeed, are probably married to them); in cities, the killer and the mugger come out of the anonymous dark, their faces unrecognized, their motives obscure.”

Knows Faces Dark Cities Crime Married Areas Victim Majority Violent Motive Killers Obscure Violent Crimes Rural Areas Muggers

Book:Soft City: Picador Classic

Source: Soft City: Picador Classic

“[The proposed establishment] will have a . . . tendency to banish our Citizens. . . . To superadd a fresh motive to emigration by revoking the liberty which they now enjoy, would be the same species of folly which has dishonoured and depopulated flourishing kingdoms.”

States Would Be Enjoy Church Liberty Citizens Species Kingdoms Tendencies Motive Folly Establishment Flourishing Emigration

Book:Selected Writings of James Madison

Source: Selected Writings of James Madison

“Secrecy can spring from the best motives; but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own sake, only to cover its own abuses.”

Grows Spring Abuse Sake Motive Secrecy

Author:Christopher Dodd

“A saint is a person who does almost everything any other decent person does, only somewhat better and with a totally different motive.”

Persons Doe Different Saint Motive Decent

Author:Coventry Patmore

“A boardroom is a collection of individuals, and individuals have varying motives, egos, agendas and qualifications. Sometimes the dynamics can go off track.”

Sometimes Individual Ego Track Motive Collections Agendas Qualifications Dynamics

Author:Carly Fiorina

“Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached.”

Giving Care Joy Given Expectations Motive Agendas Strings Caregiving Strings Attached Joy Of Giving No Strings Attached

Author:Gary Zukav

“My motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That's my motive.”

Looks Eye Clear Majors Baseball League Motive Major League Major League Baseball

Author:Jose Canseco

“I try to be careful with my persuasiveness. When my heart is really behind it, and when I have no ulterior motive, then I know I’m truly persuasive.”

Knows Trying Heart Behinds My Heart Careful Motive Be Careful Persuasive Ulterior Motive

Author:Giancarlo Esposito

“The doctrine called Philosophical Necessity is simply this: that, given the motives which are present to an individual's mind, and given likewise the character and disposition of the individual, the manner in which he will act might be unerringly inferred: that if we knew the person thoroughly, and knew all the inducements which are acting upon him, we could foretell his conduct with as much certainty as we can predict any physical event.”

Ifs Mind Persons Character Might Science Individual Given Acting Events Philosophical Doctrine Certainty Motive Disposition

Book:A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive: Mill's Works

Source: A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive: Mill's Works

“I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media.”

Thinking Writing Firsts Important Media Late Motive 1960s Distortion Personal Experiences

Author:Todd Gitlin

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