“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.” ReasonOpportunityStuffDesignMusicianTrainingEngineersSynthesizers Author:Robert Moog
“While I'm quite happy and love doing the atmospheric and quirky stuff, the melodic stuff, I've done quite a lot of. It's also another reason why I try not to do two or three at the same time.” TryingTwoReasonDoneThreeStuffAnd LoveReason WhyQuirky Author:Trevor Rabin
“The reason I've been able to maintain my position of chairman of CBS in addition to all the Viacom stuff is my team.” ReasonAbleStuffTeamPositionChairman Author:Leslie Moonves
“I'm the type of person who can get a feel for what you need and what I need to do to push you to get you to a breaking point, where you realize that you can't go on this way anymore, that the reason you're heavy is because you're ignoring all the stuff that's going on inside.” WayNeedsFeelsPersonsReasonStuffRealizingTypeGoes OnHeavyPoint Break Author:Cara Castronuova
“One of the reasons people get old - lose their aliveness - is that they get weighed down by all of their stuff.” PeopleReasonStuffLosesCoaching Book:Repacking Your Bags: Lighten Your Load for the Rest of Your Life: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition Source: Repacking Your Bags: Lighten Your Load for the Rest of Your Life: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition
“What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world.” WorldLooksDoeReasonEnoughProblemStuffSeriesOneselfStudiosDeeperDeeper Meaning Author:Anish Kapoor
“I'm very wary of doing political stuff for a lot of reasons. One of the big ones is that the shelf-life for them is not very long, and the joke becomes old news very quickly.” LongReasonBigsPoliticalStuffNewsJokesShelvesShelf LifeOld News Author:Tim Heidecker
“Once you've heard the joke, it's not funny anymore, but it's the way it's told. And I think that's the same with the music: The reason some of my songs have lasted longer is there's a lot of stuff packed in there. You want to hear them more than once.” ThinkingWayWantReasonSongStuffHeardJokes Author:Tom Lehrer
“I'm pretty brutal about getting rid of stuff. There wasn't anything where I was like, "Oh, I miss that," because usually it's for a good reason.” ReasonStuffMissingBrutal Author:Nicholas Stoller
“I like doing this stuff [stunts] though, it's kind of the whole reason that you want to do the movie. When you're reading it you're like, "Oh, I get to dive out a window? Cool! I get to jump off a building? Great!" So I love doing that stuff, it's like the stuff we used to do in high school to be stupid and fun.” WantKindReasonWholeSchoolUsedReadingFunStuffStupidBuildingHigh SchoolWindow Author:Channing Tatum
“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.” ReasonStuffDutyActiveWoundsInjuryCombatJumpingDisabledParachutesGunshots Author:Richard Carmona
“"I think I know the real reason." "Which is?" "Alcohol in the dust clouds. Goddamn stuff is everywhere. Any lousy species ever invents the telescope and the spectroscope and starts looking in between the stars, what do they find?" He knocked the glass on the table. "Loads of stuff, but much of it alcohol." He drank from the glass. "Humanoids are the galaxy's way of trying to get rid of all that alcohol."” ThinkingKnowsWayTryingRealReasonStarsStuffTablesSpeciesCloudsGlassesAlcoholDustLoadGalaxyDrankTelescopes Author:Iain Banks
“I've had a pretty crazy life. It's colorful ... reliving some of those closets that I had shut, locked and thrown away the key intentionally because it was painful to revisit a lot of those places - especially the loss of my buddy Robbie Tooley, the divorce of my parents, some of the things I went through as a kid, a lot of that stuff was locked up for a reason - it was painful. But at the same time, there was some therapy in revisiting some of those spots.” ReasonKidsStuffParentLossCrazyKeysPainfulDivorceSpotsTherapyThrownLockedClosetsBuddyColorfulLocked UpCrazy Life Author:Billy Ray Cyrus
“Theres really not much that people can pick on me for my work, so obviously they find other reasons to write something bad about me. I mean, people enjoy reading bad stuff about people.” PeopleWritingMeanReasonReadingStuffEnjoyPicksMean PeopleBad Stuff Author:Sonakshi Sinha
“If [Sean] doesn't see me a few days or if I'm really, really busy, and I just sort of get a glimpse of him, or if I'm feeling depressed without him even seeing me, he sort of picks up on it. And he starts getting that way. So I can no longer afford to have artistic depressions. If I start wallowing in a depression, he'll start coming down with stuff, so I'm sort of obligated to keep up. And sometimes I can't, because something will make me depressed and sure as hell he'll get a cold or trap his finger in a door or something, and so now I have sort of more reason to stay healthy or bright.” IfsWayI CanSometimesReasonFeelingsStuffHellSeeingDoorsColdHealthyPicksParentingFingersBusyArtisticTrapsGlimpseSeanWallowingFeeling DepressedReason To Stay Author:John Lennon
“I think there are too many smart people pursuing internet stuff, finance, and law. That is part of the reason why we haven't seen as much innovation.” PeopleThinkingReasonLawStuffHavensInternetSmartInnovationFinanceReason WhySmart People Author:Elon Musk
“Even with college, the reason I wanted to go so badly is because I wanted to major in film. I want to take screenwriting classes and learn more about behind the scenes stuff, because I love people like Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig who are able to write a lot of their own material and be so involved in everything they do.” PeopleWantWritingReasonAbleWantedFilmStuffBehindsClassCollegeMaterialsInvolvedSceneMajorsBehind The ScenesScreenwriting Author:Miranda Cosgrove
“One of the many reasons why I love stand-up so much is when you're performing, you get instant feedback. You know if stuff is working right away.” IfsKnowsReasonStuffReason WhyPerformingInstantFeedback Author:Chris Hardwick
“My stuff is my stuff. I do it for my own reasons, using my own peculiar set of guidelines. I'm not a student of the genre. I don't care what anybody else does.” DoeReasonCareStuffMy OwnStudentsDon't CareGenreI Don't CarePeculiarGuidelines Author:George A. Romero
“Interestingly, when you do films, sometimes you have conscious reasons, things that you were looking for, or stuff that you were trying to do. And then, you see the film and you think, "Wow, it ended up being something totally different!"” ThinkingTryingDifferentSometimesReasonFilmStuffConsciousWow Author:Jodie Foster
“The beauty of shooting on something that's not in front of an audience is that you can just cut out the times you're laughing. You can cut to the other person and try to use that moment, right before you break. There's an energy to those performances. There's a reason people were laughing. There was something very special. That little extra something was in that line delivery or in that improv, so you try to use that stuff.” PeopleTryingLittlesPersonsReasonMomentsUseEnergyStuffLinesBreakAudienceLaughingCuttingSpecialFrontsPerformancesShootingExtrasThat MomentDelivery Author:Ken Marino
“I did my first nude scene in Mildred Pierce, and that was absolutely terrifying, but it was for an important part of the film and for a reason, and it's incredibly powerful. It's not gratuitous. I think the stuff they show on MTV is so much worse.” ThinkingFirstsImportantReasonShowsFilmStuffPowerfulScenePierceMtvMildredMildred Pierce Author:Evan Rachel Wood
“The loss of music is very painful, and I don't revisit stuff unless there is a solid reason to do it.” ReasonStuffLossMusic IsPainful Author:John Lurie
“I'm always trying to complicate things. For some reason I'll go, "Well, maybe I can get that in," and stuff like that. I always make it really hard for myself.” TryingWellsI CanHardReasonStuffAlways Trying Author:Jim Carrey