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“I work from a deep sense of insecurity. I have the belief, and I can't shake it, that there are endless reasons to turn the channel. There are hundreds of channels and entirely other things to do besides TV. And if you make a bad television show there's no reason for the audience to come back the following week.”

Ifs I Can Reason Shows Turns Belief Audience Week Television Tvs Following Endless Things To Do Shakes Insecurity No Reason Television Shows

Author:Chuck Lorre

“I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.”

Reason Sound Water Drink Hearing

Author:Rachelle Lefevre

“But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.”

Reason Wanted Business Cowboy Midnight

Author:Jodie Foster

“The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.”

Feels Reason Film Movie

Author:Jodie Foster

“The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.”

World Doe States Reason Government United United States

Author:Michael Mandelbaum

“Brand-new research suggests that the faster you take weight off, the longer you keep it off. Now that's a reason for dieters everywhere to rejoice.”

Reason Research Weight Brands Faster Rejoice Brand New

Book:The 17 Day Diet

Source: The 17 Day Diet

“It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way.”

Way Reason Drug

Author:Patrick Marber

“I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity.”

Want Trying Reason Stories Too Much Directors Pressure Sanity

Author:Rachel McAdams

“Typically in 'Game of Thrones,' people who are honest and just and do things for the right reasons tend not to survive.”

People Reason Games Honest Thrones

Author:Richard Madden

“The commercial broadcasters have tremendous influence in Washington, D.C., for a couple of reasons. First, they're extremely rich and they have lots of money and they have had for a long time, so they can give money to politicians, which gets their attention.”

Giving Firsts Long Reason Attention Rich Influence Couple Politician Long Time Lots Of Money Broadcasters

Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.”

Reason Opportunity Stuff Design Musician Training Engineers Synthesizers

Author:Robert Moog

“Probably the most important reason we are seeing more cancers than before is because the population is ageing overall. And cancer is an age-related disease.”

Important Reason Age Seeing Disease Population Cancer Related Ageing

Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

“This league is getting big. We have way more 300-pound guys than ever before. That's not to say all the people in athletics who have died are 300-pound guys. There are so many different reasons.”

People Way Different Reason Bigs Guy Died League Pounds Athletics

Author:Steve Mariucci

“It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world.”

World Art Reason Political Social Connections Notion Autonomy

Author:Thom Mayne

“There's so many things I want to do. I want to work with great filmmakers, great actors, great scripts. And there's no reason for me to do anything short of that, because I'm 24, I don't have a family, I don't need to make tons of money, and I'm not dying to get famous.”

Want Needs Reason Actors Dying Scripts Filmmaker No Reason Great Actors Great Film

Author:Tobey Maguire

“You have to be in movies that make money to be offered work. Basically that's the equation. There's no real way around that. That said, you don't ever make decisions solely for that reason.”

Way Said Real Reason Decision Making Money Equations

Author:Alessandro Nivola

“Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.”

Kind Ideas Reason Fall Found Belief Existence Quality Conscious Immortality Associates Quality Of Life Falling Off Continuance

Author:Albert J. Nock

“When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy.”

Men Reason Political Bases Everyday Russia Routine Sympathy Arrested

Author:Alexei Navalny

“If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.”

Ifs Reason Age Able Power Cost Fundamentals Aging Sexuality Birthday Links Repression Repressed 50th Birthday

Book:The History of Sexuality: An Introduction

Source: The History of Sexuality: An Introduction

“There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.”

Reason Space Design Building No Reason Concrete

Author:Oscar Niemeyer

“I sometimes feel tired. But there are so many reasons for being tired.”

Feels Sometimes Reason Tired

Author:Ehud Olmert

“For whatever reason somebody can be convinced to buy a PC, it opens up a whole new market for all of us in the software business.”

Reason Whole Convinced Software

Author:Kevin O'Leary

“I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music.”

Writing Reason Moving Pieces Writing Music

Author:Leo Ornstein

“Running clears my mind, and gives me a reason to get out of bed in the morning.”

Giving Mind Reason Running Morning Bed Give Me

Author:Ronnie O'Sullivan

“I think perhaps Pakistan can take the lead. Perhaps Turkey can as well, being part of Europe. But someone has to start talking about why the Muslim world has become a boiling pot and look beyond these cartoons to what the ideological reasons are for this divide.”

Thinking World Wells Looks Reason Talking Europe Well Being Pot Divides Cartoon Pakistan Turkeys Ideological Boiling Muslim World

Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

“Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people do that.”

People Giving Writing Reason Song Stranger Profession Interaction Offensive Writing Songs Interaction With Others

Book:Will Oldham on Bonnie

Source: Will Oldham on Bonnie

“I think it's harder to go from comedy to drama than from drama to comedy. Seeing you dramatic all the time, they crave to see you being silly or funny. But, seeing you in comedy all the time, it's hard to see that person go be serious, for some reason.”

Thinking Persons Hard Reason Comedy Seeing Serious Drama Harder Silly Dramatic Crave Being Silly

Author:Evan Peters

“There's something that's sexy about a guy who has the strength to kill somebody, but is also vulnerable enough to be in love. It's just those two sides - like, I don't know why, but women for some reason aren't attracted to normal guys, like, guys who are in between.”

Knows Two Reason Enough Guy Sides Normal Sexy Vulnerable Two Sides

Author:Evan Peters

“What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons.”

World Reason Space Creative Opposites Cerebral Yang Creative Space

Author:Kal Penn

“We have our own reasons for what's motivating us right now.”

Reason Football Right Now American Football

Author:Troy Vincent

“..(T)here are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in the government of the commonwealth, and so wise that the commonwealth needs their advice. That is, in my opinion, the false, romantic doctrine of democracy. On the other hand, you may believe fallen men to be so wicked that not one of them can be trusted with any irresponsible power over his fellows.”

“Well, first you have to love writing. A lot of authors love having written. But I enjoy the actual writing. Beside that, I think the main reason I can be so prolific is the huge amount of planning I do before I start to write. I do a very complete, chapter-by-chapter outline of every book I write. When I sit down to write, I already know everything that's going to happen in the book. This means I've done all the important thinking, and I can relax and enjoy the writing. I could never write so many books if I didn't outline them first.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Writing Firsts Wells Mean I Can Important Book Reason Done Happens Enjoy Written Huge Amount Planning Relax Chapters Outlines

Author:R. L. Stine

“Don't ever quit. Never quit. Never show anybody you're hurt. Grin and walk through the cannon smoke. It will drive them up the wall. You always stay true to your own principles. You always believe in your gift. God doesn't make mistakes when he presents someone with a gift like that. It's there for a reason. Tell the naysayers, those who reject you, to drop dead! Who cares?”

“If there's a reason for the way that life is I'd like to find it. After all, who's life is it?”

Ifs Way Reason Life Is Education

Author:Gordon Lightfoot

“You are the reason. If you want, you are the answer in the end.”

Ifs Want Ends Reason Answers Education

Author:Jon Anderson

“That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and our reason approves that wise and generous principle which actuated the first founders of civil government, an institution which hat its origin in the weakness of individuals, and hath for its end the strength and security of all; and so long as the means of effecting this important end are thoroughly known and religiously attended to government is one of the richest blessings to mankind, and ought to be held in the highest veneration”

“Every major industry was once a growth industry. But some that are now riding a wave of growth enthusiasm are very much in the shadow of decline. Others that are thought of as seasoned growth industries have actually stopped growing. In every case, the reason growth is threatened, slowed, or stopped is not because the market is saturated. It is because there has been a failure of management.”

Has Beens Reason Growth Cases Growing Industry Majors Shadow Management Marketing Wave Enthusiasm Decline Riding Threatened Saturated

Book:Marketing Myopia

Source: Marketing Myopia

“The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons. ... Republicans: The No. 1 reason the rest of the world thinks we're deaf, dumb, and dangerous.”

“They proved to me by convincing reasons that God does not exist; Afterwards I saw God, for he came and embraced me. And now what am I to believe- the reasoning of others or my own experience? Truth is what the soul has seen and experienced; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.”

Believe Doe Soul Reason God My Own Opinion Saws Truth Is Prejudice Appearance Reasoning Convincing

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“It's a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is their natural, unthinking bravery... Adults know too much about failure; they're more cynical and resigned and fearful.”

Ifs Knows Children Reason Facts Natural Wonder Too Much Higher Adults Logic Bravery Rate Cancer Cures Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Cynical Fearful Ontology Resigned

Author:Lance Armstrong

“Today the major reason for our interest in Flatland is that for the first time we can achieve some of the dreams of our ancestors a century ago and obtain direct visual experience of phenomena in a dimension higher than our own.”

Firsts Reason Dream Today Interest Achieve Century Higher Majors First Time Direct Logic Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Visuals Dimensions Ancestor Ontology

Author:Thomas Banchoff

“Although my knowledge grows more and more, nevertheless I do not for that reason believe that it can ever be actually infinite, since it can never reach a point so high that it will be unable to attain any greater increase.”

Believe Reason Grows Greater Logic Increase Infinite Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Nevertheless Ontology

Book:Discourse on Method and Meditations

Source: Discourse on Method and Meditations

“One reason, of course, as a Christian, I believe the Bible is the word of God. I take the Bible as the standard.”

Believe Reason God Christian Courses I Believe Standards Word Of God

Author:Jerry Falwell

“Coaches will do what they can but it doesn't necessarily bother me. You are an international referee for a reason. If things like that are going to ruffle your feathers, don't bother doing the job.”

Ifs Reason Jobs International Coaches Bother Feathers Referee Ruffles

Author:Alan Lewis

“There is no reason why I should call myself a democrat.”

Should Reason Democrat Reason Why No Reason

Author:Alexander Lebed

“Taiwan and China are related ethnically and close neighbors geographically. There's no reason to resent or to fight against each other.”

Reason Fighting China Neighbor Related No Reason Resent Taiwan

Author:Annette Lu

“There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.”

World Needs Writing Reason Common One Thing Alternatives Reason Why Novelists

Author:John Fowles

“When your heart is first, you can be absent of heart but when you put spirit first, you have a reason for why you do heart.”

Firsts Heart Reason Spirit Absent

Author:Derek Luke

“The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.”

Real Reason Spirit Force Paris No Reason Valleys Mentality Silicon Silicon Valley

Author:Xavier Niel

“I'm not a super emotional person, so that's one reason I love acting - it makes me deal with myself in that kind of way.”

Way Kind Persons Reason Deals Acting Emotional Emotional Person

Author:Aubrey Plaza

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