Reason Why Quotes - Page 19

• The reason why I don't have a hero is because heroes set a bar - whereas if we don't have one, our potential is unlimited.

  Peter H. Reynolds

  Motivational, Hero, Bars

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• I don't obsess about my weight, which is probably one of the reasons why other people have such a problem with it.

  Kelly Clarkson

  People, Weight, Problem

  "Kelly Clarkson Can't Be Put Down: 'I'm Never Going to Obsess About My Body'" by Brie Schwartz, www.redbookmag.com. April 14, 2015.

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• I feel sorry for people of good heart who have never had a chance to learn the realities of Native American everything - not just our history but the sweetness and the beauty and the reasons why were so close to Mother Earth.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Mother, Sorry, Native American

  "The Fierce, Childlike Creativity of Buffy Sainte-Marie". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. July 9, 2015.

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• George Washington said, "All I am, I owe to my mother." That's so true. My mom pushed me to get in politics. She pushed me to learn a bunch of languages. She pushed me and inspired me. She is the reason why I'm in politics.

  Andrea Tantaros

  Mom, Mother, Language

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Torture gives you reliable and unreliable information. That's the reason why most people in the world don't do it. So this idea that you have to torture people in order to protect national security is a false argument, and I reject it.

  John McCain

  Order, Ideas, Giving

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Some comedians change their style, often to their advantage; but I see no reason why I can't continue with the "urbane sophisticate" 'til the day I die.

  Emo Philips

  Comedian, Style, Advantage

  "Emo Philips is still... Emo". Interview with Steve Johnson, www.chicagotribune.com. September 20, 2012.

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• The devil never seems so busy as where the saints are, which is another reason why I feel how difficult it would be to be religious.

  Elizabeth Charles

  Religious, Devil, Saint

  Elizabeth Rundle Charles (1865). “Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family”, p.32

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• The reason why China suffers bitterly from endless wars is because of the existence of feudal lords and kings.

  Qin Shi Huang

  Kings, War, Suffering

  "Records of the Grand Historian". Book by Sima Qian, 94 BC.

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• I confess I could never see any good reason why dirt should always be a necessary concomitant of poverty.

  Willis Gaylord Clark

  Dirt, Poverty, Should

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• Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there's a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There's a beautiful side to her; she's not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.

  Angelina Jolie

  Beautiful, Children, Dark

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• With fiction, there’s no reason why everything you write shouldn’t be amazing. Nobody’s stopping you from making up better stuff.

  Wells Tower

  Writing, Stuff, Stopping

  "The Tool Box: Wells Tower". www.newyorker.com. April 6, 2009.

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• Trying to describe the process of becoming an alcoholic is like trying to describe air. It's too big and mysterious and pervasive to be defined. Alcohol is everywhere in your life, omnipresent, and you're both aware and unaware of it almost all the time, all you know is you'd die without it, and there is no simple reason why this happens, no single moment, no physiological event that pushes a heavy drinker across a concrete line into alcoholism. It's a slow, gradual, insidious, elusive becoming.

  Caroline Knapp

  Single Mom, Simple, Air

  Caroline Knapp (1999). “Drinking: A Love Story”, p.8, Dial Press

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• And I think that’s a lot of the reason why when you start to fragment your audience, you start to think about what you’re looking for, you’ll go to different spaces, and it parallels what we do as adults. You go to different bars when you’re in the mood for different things. You see different people when you want to go listen to music or when you just want to have a quiet drink with a couple of friends.

  danah boyd

  Couple, Thinking, Space

  "The era of Facebook is an anomaly". Interview with Ellis Hamburger, www.theverge.com. March 13, 2014.

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• In baseball, even the best hitters fail seven of ten times, and of those seven failures there are different reasons why. Some are personal failures, others are losses to the pitcher. You just get beat. In those personal failures, I felt I could have done better.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Baseball, Loss, Different

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• The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Men, Appreciate, Different

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• More important than the HOW we achieve financial freedom, is the WHY. Find YOUR reasons why you want to be free and wealthy.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Marketing, Important, Want

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• This command seems to me to be strictly a missionary injunction, and, as far as I can see, those to whom it was first delivered regarded it in that light, so that, apart altogether from choice and other lower reasons, my going forth is a matter of obedience to a plain command; and in place of seeking to assign a reason for going abroad, I would prefer to say that I have failed to discover any reason why I should stay at home.

  James Gilmour

  Home, Light, Choices

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• ...in place of seeking a reason for going abroad, I would prefer to say that I have failed to discover any reason why I should stay at home.

  James Gilmour

  Home, Missionary, Should

  James Gilmour (1892). “James Gilmour of Mongolia: His Diaries, Letters and Reports”

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• I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man can live without meat. It is only some carnivorous animals that have to subsist on flesh. Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventures, and for hides and furs is a phenomenon which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging in such acts of brutality . . . Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to a man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not to die, so do other creatures.

  Dalai Lama

  Sports, Pain, Adventure

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• To put yourself into a situation where a mistake cannot necessarily be recouped, where the life you lose may be your own, clears the head wonderfully. It puts domestic problems back into proportion and adds an element of seriousness to your drab, routine life. Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.

  Al Alvarez

  Mistake, Climbing, Routine Life

  "Our enduring desire to court deadly risk" by Peter Beaumont, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2012.

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• I do not see any reason why they should not be given the means to give their teachers just as high an education as is secured by attendance at the Protestant schools.

  Charles Tupper

  Education, Teacher, School

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• The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

  Jonathan Swift

  Funny, Marriage, Time

  'Thoughts on Various Subjects' (1706)

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• In order to be a winner, you have to look for ways of getting things done and not for reasons why things can’t be done. People who live with excuses have things that can’t be done hovering around them all the time.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Order, People, Hovering

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• The world has never before had as much drama as today. Radio, films, television and video inundate us with drama. But while these forms can engage or even enrage the audience, in none of them can the viewer’s response alter the artistic event itselfThat is why theatre is signing its own death warrant when it tries to play too safe. On the other hand, that is also the reason why, although its future often seems bleak, theatre will continue to live and to provoke.

  Girish Karnad

  Drama, Hands, Play

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• It is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians, men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, have labored as hard, if not harder, than day laborers; and that the most obvious reason why they have been superior to other men is that they have taken more pains than other men.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Pain, Taken, Men

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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