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“I know the difference between venture capital[ism] and vulture capitalism. Venture capitalism is a good thing, comes in, gives that gap funding to help these companies get off and get started creating jobs, and work. But Mitt Romney and Bain Capital were involved with what I call vulture capitalism. And they walked into Gaffney and took over that photo album company for no other reason than to basically pick the bones clean. And those people lost their jobs.”

“One reason I can be more tolerant than most is that as a therapist I have the advantage of information about my patients that most people are not privy to. And I discover that we rarely if ever see the totality of another in ordinary social intercourse. When an individual appears mean and lazy, we are only seeing one part of the person, elicited by a particular set of circumstances on a particular day, and we do well to wait a while before concluding that what we see is the whole person.”

“The reason a person is in a particular state of mind is primarily because of attraction and aversion. Attraction and aversion cause us to format a mental or intellectual program.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“This is a world that defines everything backwards, a world in which good is called bad, brightness is called darkness, up is called down, enlightenment is called abnormal behavior and abnormal behavior is applauded as reason.”

World Reason Humanity Darkness Buddhism Behavior Enlightenment Backwards Brightness Abnormal

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is no reason not to love. There is no reason not to be joyous. There is no reason not to celebrate because all of this means nothing, absolutely nothing. So why not be happy?”

Mean Reason Happiness Buddhism Celebrate No Reason Why Not Joyous Absolutely Nothing

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Let us say that you wanted a romantic partner who is in a higher sate of mind, a nicer person. The reason you will meet that person is because you are in a state of mind that will cause that meeting to occur.”

Mind Persons States Reason Wanted Causes Buddhism Higher Meetings Sexuality Partners State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“"We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields d'or or d'argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms."”

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Author:Abraham Cowley

“It's not that you get a cliché and then wiggle it about or use synonyms. You don't take an ordinary decorative paragraph and give it style. What you're trying to do is be faithful to your perceptions and transmit them as faithfully as you can. I say these sentences until they sound right. There's no objective reason why they're right. They just sound right to me.”

Giving Writing Trying Reason Use Sound Style Perception Ordinary Sentences Objectives Reason Why Faithful Paragraph Transmit Being Faithful Synonym

Author:Martin Amis

“For some reason, people think of me as someone who can do anything I want. And I'm not. You know, I need someone to put up the money.”

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Author:John Landis

“Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.”

Humans Reason Age Sex Community Race Moral Racism Species Deny Protection Rejects Sexism Orientation Membership Sentient Beings Ageism Speciesism

Author:Gary L. Francione

“I've never been a fan of just doing. I like to do things for a reason.”

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Author:Jude Law

“Of course, I have the emotional ups and downs of pregnancy, like crying jags for no reason and then the next day I can't even remember what I was crying about!”

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Author:Jodi Sweetin

“Kids should feel afraid of 'Doctor Who.' All the adults I've talked to remember fondly being afraid when they were kids. That's part of the reason they remember it and love it. And if you're afraid in a controlled way, you sort of appreciate fear in some respect.”

Ifs Way Feels Should Reason Kids Remember Adults Appreciate Doctors And Love Controlled Doctor Who Being Afraid

Author:Matt Smith

“The basic scientific conclusions on climate change are very robust and for good reason. The greenhouse effect is simple science: greenhouse gases trap heat, and humans are emitting ever more greenhouse gases.”

Humans Reason Simple Effects Climate Climate Change Conclusion Heat Traps Robust Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases

Book:The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity

Source: The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity

“Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.”

Soul Reason Light Consciousness Grace Amount

Author:Pope Francis

“I love the irony of movies. I really do. For whatever reason, I'm incredibly intrigued by the irony of reality in a motion picture.”

Reason Reality Irony Intrigued Motion Pictures

Author:Zack Snyder

“I always just want to do non-typical voices for some reason.”

Want Reason Voice Typical

Author:Kenan Thompson

“One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.”

Years Reason Quitting Interviews I Quit

Author:Bernie Taupin

“Don’t have work-life balance - at least in the sense of trying to escape from work so you can have a life. Work should be fun - so make work enjoyable and satisfying for everyone - among other reasons because it pays off.”

Should Trying Reason Fun Pay Balance Satisfying Enjoyable Work Life Balance Life Balance Work And Life Balance

Author:Don Tapscott

“The university is in danger of losing its monopoly, and for good reason. The most visible threat are the new online courses, many of them free, with some of the best professors in their respective fields.”

Reason Courses Danger Fields Losing Threat University Visible Online Professors Monopoly

Author:Don Tapscott

“If, hypothetically, Western Catholicism were to review the issue of celibacy, I think it would do so for cultural reasons, not so much as a universal option.”

Ifs Thinking Reason Issues Universal Western Catholicism Reviews Celibacy

Author:Pope Francis

“The biggest thing I've found since I left the game - and I'm glad I chose to leave rather than being sacked - is that so many people are in football for the wrong reasons. Not because they love the game, but because they smell money.”

People Reason Found Games Left Football Smell Glad Wrong Reasons

Author:Graham Taylor

“It's traditionally not federal policy to fund state and local salaries. It's done sometimes on a temporary basis or a grant basis. But it's not often done. And the reason is clear, because the federal government can't continue in perpetuity these programs.”

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Author:Jim Talent

“The unemployment rate has effectively not gone down from where it was at the peak of the recession. The only reason it's gone technically from 10 percent to 8 percent is so many people are discouraged and have quit work.”

People Reason Gone Percent Rate Quitting Unemployment Discouraged Recessions Unemployment Rate

Author:Jim Talent

“This economy is not getting better and the president's policies are the reason.”

Reason President Economy Policy Get Better

Author:Jim Talent

“My family has loved Minnesota and that was one of the big reasons we decided to come back. For me, family decisions were a big part to coming back to the Twins.”

Reason Bigs Decision My Family Decided Twins Coming Back Minnesota

Author:Jim Thome

“A lot of people want to die for a lot of reasons.”

People Want Reason Dies Wanting To Die

Author:Johnny Thunders

“One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it.”

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Author:Julie Taymor

“I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child.”

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Author:Koichi Tanaka

“I'm definitely doing better. I never realized that I would get the support that I've gotten from everybody - from my fans, to people that I've idolized my whole life. So it's overwhelming, it's amazing and I believe that everything happens for a reason so I'm in a really good place right now.”

People Believe Reason Whole Happens I Believe Support Fans Right Now Whole Life Things Happen Overwhelming Good Place Everything Happens For A Reason Happens For A Reason Idolized

Author:Pia Toscano

“Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.”

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Author:Rachael Taylor

“I came seriously close to getting married four times, and each time I backed off in fear or for one reason or another. Each occasion was different, but in hindsight when I look at the people involved, it wasn't a bad thing what I did. I think it may have been more complex had the marriage taken place.”

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Author:Ratan Tata

“I think everybody has different priorities in their life. People live their lives differently. People become famous through all sorts of different reasons... some of it through art and some of it through just wanting to be famous. And I think how that all starts tends to reflect how you live your life daily.”

People Thinking Art Different Reason Priorities Daily Life Live Your Life

Author:Keith Urban

“We're just getting better at our trade, man. We know what we're doing, and the reason why is that we've spent 30 years doing it. There's nothing that can replace that.”

Knows Men Years Reason Trade Reason Why Get Better

Author:Alan Vega

“People said that way back in the early days I was probably one of the first rappers; the reason is that I couldn't sing, so I had to talk! Lou Reed was probably the one who started it all.”

People Way Firsts Said Reason Rapper Reeds

Author:Alan Vega

“Europe and the euro zone have no reason, rationally, to push Greece out of the euro. But this is a system in which many parties, many countries, many governments, many electorates participate and we could have events which, rationally, are not controllable.”

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Author:Evangelos Venizelos

“Small businesses are seeing huge rate increases every year, and more and more of them are saying they just can't afford to provide coverage. That's part of the reason more than 45 million Americans are now uninsured.”

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Author:Greg Walden

“Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.”

People World Two Reason Helping Political Poverty Program Regard Variety Divided Camps Learning Experience

Author:Barney Frank

“I was a dancer, and it's not really cool for a boy to dance, so it was inspiring to see a movie like 'Footloose' where a guy is dancing masculine and had a proper reason behind it. It made me feel cool, and when these kids would make fun of me, I'd be like, 'Oh, didn't you see 'Footloose,' man?”

Men Feels Made Reason Kids Guy Fun Behinds Boys Dancing Dancer Masculine Really Cool Footloose

Author:Kenny Wormald

“Hubbard set up the Church of Scientology in Hollywood in 1954 for a reason. He understood that celebrity was increasingly a feature of American public life, and celebrities themselves were going to be worshipped as minor deities were in the ancient world. The idea was: if you could get them, think how many people would follow.”

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Author:Lawrence Wright

“I had an art teacher who's the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That's where she had gone and kept raving over their art department.”

Art Reason School Gone Teacher High School Department Alabama Art Teacher

Author:Sela Ward

“I now have to find a reason to write, every single day.”

Writing Reason

Author:Walter Jon Williams

“Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.”

Reason Feelings Subjects Visible Rejects Rationalism

Book:Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics

Source: Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics

“And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Looks Sometimes Reason Objects Shapes Reason Why Criticize

Author:Minoru Yamasaki

“When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened and brutal. For this reason, I am proud of my profession, but also aware of its importance.”

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Author:Mo Yan

“If you're hit with a lawsuit that's untrue and the reasons you're hit with it aren't clear to you, there's a very big inclination on people's part to want to take responsibility for it - that this must be happening because I'm a terrible person, I did something, and I'm getting repaid for it.”

People Ifs Want Persons Reason Bigs Responsibility Clear Terrible Happenings Taking Responsibility Inclination Untrue Lawsuit

Author:Sean Young

“I've always loved watching the news on TV. As a kid, I loved watching Walter Cronkite, for some reason.”

Reason Kids Tvs News

Author:Will Ferrell

“If, for some reason, everyone knew who I was without me having to have my own TV show, that's what I would do. That way, I could do less shows a year.”

Ifs Way Years Reason Shows My Own Tvs Tv Shows

Author:Jen Kirkman

“Iran is also engaged in the fight against ISIL for reasons of its own that include a desire not to see a reasonably friendly government in Baghdad falling. But it also includes its desire not to have ISIL's ideology spread in the region where it lives”

Reason Government Desire Fall Fighting Spread Ideology Engaged Regions Friendly Iran Baghdad Isil

Author:David Ignatius

“The reason statins are so helpful is that even those who are trying their best to reach their target and still can't do it have something else to rely on.”

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Author:Antonio Gotto

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