Reason Why Quotes - Page 11

• 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.

  Rachael Taylor

  Girl, Strong, Character

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Minoru Yamasaki

  Thinking, Shapes, Looks

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• Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Christian, Teaching, Men

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• Put a Post-It note on your mirror that says: 'Someone has to succeed. There's no reason why it shouldn't be me.' Repeat before every audition.

  Janet McTeer

  Mirrors, Auditions, Succeed

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's a reason why the Foo Fighters don't blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that's hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn't really come up, or it just hasn't felt right.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Opportunity, Night

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• If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

  Eli Broad

  Giving, Way, Give Me

  "Billionaire Philanthropist Eli Broad on the Secrets of His Success". Interview with Rahim Kanani, www.forbes.com. September 18, 2012.

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• There's a thousand reasons why I shouldn't drink... but I can't think of one right now.

  Shemp Howard

  Drinking, Thinking, Drunk

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.

  Mark Van Doren

  World, Failing, Aim

  Mark Van Doren (1968). “Autobiography”

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• I think this reason why girls don’t do well on multiple choice tests goes all the way back to the Bible, all the way back to Genesis, Adam and Eve. God said, ‘All right, Eve, multiple choice or multiple orgasms, what’s it going to be?’ We all know what was chosen.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Girl, Stupid, Thinking

  "Big Fat Lies" by Steven Rendell, Jim Naureckas, and Jeff Cohen, www.motherjones.com. May 1995.

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• Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented

  Willem de Kooning

  Oil, Flesh, Painting

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 14 Oct. 1974

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• The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed - socialism doesn't work.

  Rand Paul

  Fundamentals, Unions, Why Me

  "Kentucky Tonight", KET, June 16, 1998.

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• The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.

  Zeno of Citium

  Funny, Two, Ears

  "The Stoic Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laërtius, Klondike Classics, 2017.

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• Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization.

  Oscar Wilde

  Civilization, Class, People

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.1044, Wordsworth Editions

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• Not a single one of the doctrines of Marx has ever been accepted by any economist or any philosopher. But what of it? It was necessary that Gaiseric should convince economists or philosophers that there were sound reasons why he should capture Rome. He and his followers wanted it, and they had the power to take it.

  Thomas Nixon Carver

  Rome, Sound, Doctrine

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• He even knew the reason why: because enough men had gone off to war saying the time for gardening was when the war was over; whereas there must be men to stay behind and keep gardening alive, or at least the idea of gardening; because once that cord was broken, the earth would grow hard and forget her children. That was why.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Children, War, Men

  J. M. Coetzee (1983). “Life & Times of Michael K.: A Novel”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Any girl who has flown at all grows used to the prejudice of most men pilots who will trot out any number of reasons why women can't possibly be good pilots. . . . The only way to show the disbelievers, the snickering hangar pilots, is to show them.

  Cornelia Fort

  Girl, Women, Numbers

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• But the point of using the number was to show that sex was a great part of my life as basketball was a great part of my life. That's the reason why I was single.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Sex, Nba

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• [T]his is another reason why the children of illegals are sought for public schools: They'll put up with it. The children of illegals will put up with these dilapidated schools because for them, it is a huge step up. And these schools become little indoctrination centers for the children of illegal immigrants, as they are brainwashed and programmed to become Democrats as adults.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Children, School, Littles

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• The unadmitted reason why traditional readers are hostile to e-books is that we still hold the superstitious idea that a book is like a soul, and that every soul should have its own body.

  Adam Kirsch

  Book, Should Have, Ideas

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• If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a valid book.

  Ayn Rand

  Book, Writing, Giving

  Ayn Rand (2000). “The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers”, p.22, Penguin

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• Well, I think I'm not a non-believer, and I'm not a believer. But, on the other hand, I couldn't give you a good enough reason why EVP doesn't exist. I don't know enough about it, so how could I say it's not true. Plus, a person's reality is a person's reality so that's your belief system. It's all perception anyway, isn't it.

  Michael Keaton

  Thinking, Reality, Hands

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• When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!

  Tom Wopat

  Song, Years, Singing

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• I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have judged formerly to have had spiritual life, though I see him at present in a swoon (faint)as to all evidences of the spiritual life. And the reason why I will not judge him so is this -- because if you judge a person dead, you neglect him, you leave him; but if you judge him in a swoon,(faint) though never so dangerous, you use all means for the retrieving of his life.

  John Owen

  Spiritual, Mean, Judging

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• I believe that one reason why the church of God at this present moment has so little influence over the world is because the world has so much influence over the church.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, Church, World

  Charles Spurgeon (1989). “The Soul Winner”, p.278, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The reason why we believe that change is possible is not because we are idealists but because we believe we have made it, so other people can make it as well.

  Roméo Dallaire

  Believe, People, Made

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