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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.
Author:
Minoru Yamasaki
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The only reason to invest in the market is because you think you know something others don't.
Author:
R. Winans
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Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.
Author:
Edward Weston
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Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.
Author:
Earl Weaver
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I believe Johnson understood that the reason was Vietnam. I also believe that he felt that if there was a way to communicate the real issues in Vietnam, that the reasons would be answered or understood. But there was just no way to communicate.
Author:
Lew Wasserman
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The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.
Author:
Voltaire
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There is no reason inherent in the real resources available to us why we cannot move rapidly within the next two or three years to a state of genuine full employment.
Author:
William Vickrey
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But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.
Author:
Polly Toynbee
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The reason it has lasted for 30 years is for one reason and one reason only: Classic Rock radio.
Author:
George Thorogood
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Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
Author:
Alfred Tennyson
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
Author:
Alfred Tennyson
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I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.
Author:
Theodore Sturgeon
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I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.
Author:
Gertrude Stein
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
Author:
Elizabeth Stanton
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The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness.
Author:
Richard Stallman
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
Author:
Baruch Spinoza
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I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason.
Author:
Kevin Spacey
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I don't think Will does get upstaged because his reaction is always funnier than what is actually happening. That is also the reason Tommy is funnier than Will.
Author:
Barry Sonnenfeld
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Please understand the reason why Chinese vegetables taste so good. It is simple. The Chinese do not cook them, they just threaten them!
Author:
Jeff Smith
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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
Author:
Samuel Smiles
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I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it.
Author:
George Simpson
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What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it.
Author:
David Simon
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For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness.
Author:
Georg Simmel
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The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.
Author:
Navjot Sidhu
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In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera.
Author:
Harry Shearer
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For some reason, it popped into my head the notion that a lot of the Next Generation cast in the long run of that show managed to step behind the camera.
Author:
Michael Shanks
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How well he's read, to reason against reading!
Author:
William Shakespeare
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Every part I've done has been for one reason or another-money, or the part, or the director, or the location. I'd like to get one thing that's all of those combined.
Author:
Joan Severance
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That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done.
Author:
David Selby
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Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.
Author:
Jerry Seinfeld
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For some reason when I write in cursive, it's easier and flows better for me to read that when I print.
Author:
Ashley Scott
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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.
Author:
Robert Schuller
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When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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I have never sought the reason why I write.
Author:
Nathalie Sarraute
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The reason I am here, they tell me, is that I played the game a certain way, that I played the game the way it was supposed to be played.
Author:
Ryne Sandberg
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Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
Author:
George Sand
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Sliding headfirst is the safest way to get to the next base, I think, and the fastest. You don't lose your momentum, and there's one more important reason I slide headfirst, it gets my picture in the paper.
Author:
Pete Rose
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There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices.
Author:
Ernestine Rose
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Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts.
Author:
Brooks Robinson
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
Author:
Rainer Rilke
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I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.
Author:
Lou Reed
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Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
Author:
Ayn Rand
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Obviously it's critical that the three cars are able to contribute to the program. I think that certainly has given much of the reason as to why we did so well at Indy over the last several years.
Author:
Bobby Rahal
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Reason is immortal, all else mortal.
Author:
Pythagoras
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Asimov was the reason why we changed some rules in the SFWA, and I'm not convinced we changed it for the best.
Author:
Jerry Pournelle
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If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
Author:
Titus Plautus
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My classmates would copulate with anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.
Author:
Emo Philips
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There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic.
Author:
Jean-Marie Pen
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
Author:
Cesare Pavese
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That's another reason I did Daredevil: I didn't get killed off in it.
Author:
Joe Pantoliano
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The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.
Author:
Abraham Pais
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Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
Author:
Ovid
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Have a very good reason for everything you do.
Author:
Laurence Olivier
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I give with reason.
Author:
Thomas North
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The reason they call it 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up.
Author:
Leslie Nielsen
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We need a reason to speak but none to keep silent.
Author:
Pierre Nicole
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I think things happened the way they did for a reason.
Author:
Aaron Neville
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One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.
Author:
Guru Nanak
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The number one reason I write is to come to schools and see my readers. I would do it for free.
Author:
Frank Murphy
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I'm really starting to think everything happens for a reason.
Author:
Samantha Mumba
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As for sacred polyphony, there is no reason to be afraid of it.
Author:
Richard Morris
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The reason Ronald Reagan gets slammed for having so badly exacerbated the problem of deficit spending is that he so plainly deserves it.
Author:
Daniel Moran
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The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
Author:
Charles Montesquieu
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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
Author:
Moliere
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Reason can be used only when looking critically back.
Author:
Peter Mitchell
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But I don't think there's any reason to get married again, especially after what I've been through.
Author:
Liza Minnelli
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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
Author:
H. Mencken
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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
Author:
Karl Marx
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The reason we're so dangerous is because we're totally harmless.
Author:
Cheech Marin
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There's a reason screens are only this thick.
Author:
John Malkovich
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The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
Author:
Maimonides
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It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.
Author:
Clare Luce
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I'm driven. I am. I'm driven for some reason. But I don't know where I'm going.
Author:
Courtney Love
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If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.
Author:
Gotthold Lessing
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The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.
Author:
Jay Leno
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If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist.
Author:
Annie Leibovitz
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I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.
Author:
Annie Leibovitz
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Whiskey - I like it, I always did, and that is the reason I never use it.
Author:
Robert Lee
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There is no reason why I should call myself a democrat.
Author:
Aleksandr Lebed
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But if I've heard this saying once, I've heard it a thousand times- everything happens for a reason. And possibly it does. I just haven't found the reason that this all happened yet.
Author:
Jerry Lawler
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You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way.
Author:
Martin Landau
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Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.
Author:
Val Kilmer
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The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.
Author:
Andre Kertesz
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They know what my standards are. They know what I need and how to get it to me, and they know how to communicate with me if for some reason they can't get it.
Author:
Thomas Keller
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Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.
Author:
Arthur Keith
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I think if you run away from who you are, that you're a Democrat and you're proud to be a Democrat, it's foolish. And the reason it's foolish is you've got a lot to be proud of.
Author:
Tim Kaine
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I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.
Author:
Juvenal
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The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.
Author:
Carl Jung
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The reason I use ed is that I don't want to lose what's on the screen.
Author:
Bill Joy
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I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.
Author:
Lara John
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Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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There's no reason you should write any novel quickly.
Author:
John Irving
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I'm not competing in Iowa for a reason.
Author:
Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.
Author:
Garth Hudson
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If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
Author:
Edward Hopper
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We shall have to pass through many a valley, many a narrow defile. Many will grow tired on the way. Of course they will mostly be those who have no reason to do so.
Author:
Heinrich Himmler
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I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but other diabetics do ski, so there's no reason I couldn't.
Author:
Dana Hill
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There's no reason the Rangers can't get to the top.
Author:
Tom Hicks
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The main advantage of the omniscient approach is that it's the easiest to handle. That's the major reason so many writers select it.
Author:
Arthur Herzog
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I know the only reason that I haven't gotten many good parts is because I am Latin - and they tell it to my face a lot of times.
Author:
Salma Hayek
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Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.
Author:
Friedrich Hayek
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That is one reason so many of the Japanese pictures are not good, they cannot spare all the footage necessary for that bow, which is repeated over and over again.
Author:
Sessue Hayakawa
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You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words.
Author:
S. Hayakawa
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The whole reason Sabrina came about was because we wanted something good for families to watch on TV.
Author:
Melissa Hart
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Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.
Author:
John Harington
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The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.
Author:
Johann Hamann
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Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.
Author:
Johann Hamann
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I felt uneasy, but sometimes, like I said before, I believed in Col. North and there was a very solid and very valid reason that he must have been doing this.
Author:
Fawn Hall
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Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.
Author:
Thomas Gray
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I don't believe things happen in vain. I believe they happen for a reason.
Author:
Tracey Gold
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Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent.
Author:
Ruth Ginsburg
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No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct.
Author:
Shakti Gawain
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Getting even is one reason for writing.
Author:
William Gass
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I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.
Author:
Elizabeth Gaskell
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I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.
Author:
Ava Gardner
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
Author:
Galileo Galilei
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As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.
Author:
Neil Gaiman
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Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.
Author:
E. Forster
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This generation of filmmakers is very good. They're seasoned, for some reason.
Author:
Dennis Farina
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Don't keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason.
Author:
Jimmy Fallon
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I always believe there's a reason why you go through everything.
Author:
John Elway
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Sometimes I like them artificial and sometimes I like them real. And the reason is because sometimes I like a real close sound. And I like a very specific snare sound and I can't get that in the big room.
Author:
Danny Elfman
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They're there because, for some reason, they have the notion that they're supposed to be there.
Author:
Santiago Durango
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The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
Author:
E. Doctorow
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The only reason for using another cut is to improve the scene.
Author:
Edward Dmytryk
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The real reason your pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing at you.
Author:
Phyllis Diller
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The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing.
Author:
Phyllis Diller
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It's heartbreaking but we're trying to get over it. As disappointed as we were, I think that somehow you have to find a way to think that it happened for a reason.
Author:
Caroline Dhavernas
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It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live.
Author:
Johnny Depp
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I think that things happen for a reason.
Author:
Dave Davies
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I'm hyperactive, and I went in the studio and I would just start making records, for no reason.
Author:
Puff Daddy
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It doesn't really seem any different anywhere. I'd say it seems like we're biggest in Australia. It's just that we've always been this underground band and for some reason in the last month has been starting to go overground.
Author:
Jon Crosby
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One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
Author:
Paulo Coelho
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For some reason, on that sparkling afternoon last week, I actually saw the coal that was passing by and it set me to thinking how important coal was to our everyday lives when I was a little boy.
Author:
Nick Clooney
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The more you reason the less you create.
Author:
Raymond Chandler
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The only reason anyone ever called me a hero is because I get this paper, here.
Author:
Kyle Chandler
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I'm the reason why I'm overweight. No one made me do it. I did it.
Author:
Neil Cavuto
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Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness.
Author:
Giacomo Casanova
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Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.
Author:
James Carville
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Every single note on this album is there for a reason.
Author:
Vanessa Carlton
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No one in the whole movie ever asks anyone, Did you write this letter' Part of the reason is that no one wants to hear that it isn't for them. As soon as they read it, they want it to be theirs.
Author:
Kate Capshaw
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The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.
Author:
John Cale
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I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept.
Author:
James Cain
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I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary.
Author:
David Byrne
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
Author:
Samuel Butler
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There is no good reason for our cattle producers to have such limited market access. Our beef is the best in the world, and we need to be allowed to reach global markets.
Author:
Conrad Bums
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Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?
Author:
Charles Browne
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I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
Author:
Rita Brown
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You get to a point where the factual adjudication doesn't matter because there are all these other outlets that are far less responsible, all talking about the ad, some of which have a political reason for promoting it.
Author:
David Brock
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But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically.
Author:
Edie Brickell
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For some reason in Spring Training, everything just clicked. You don't try to do anything in Spring Training but get ready, but things fell into place.
Author:
Bobby Bonilla
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The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
Author:
Erma Bombeck
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For some reason, the concept of writing with swing chords was intimidating.
Author:
Suzy Bogguss
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We all must recognize that homeland security funds should be allocated by threat and no other reason.
Author:
Michael Bloomberg
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The reason I do interviews is because I'm protecting my songs.
Author:
Bjork
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I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it.
Author:
Alison Bechdel
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For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.
Author:
Alison Bechdel
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There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect.
Author:
Ann Beattie
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All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
Author:
Charles Baudelaire
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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
Author:
Charles Baudelaire
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There is no reason that the universe should be designed for our convenience.
Author:
John Barrow
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Do you have to have a reason for loving?
Author:
Brigitte Bardot
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Nobody does anything for one reason.
Author:
Russell Banks
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A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
Author:
Margaret Atwood
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I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
Author:
Isaac Asimov
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Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.
Author:
Thomas Aquinas
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One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.
Author:
Piers Anthony
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The only reason I'm coming out here tomorrow is the schedule says I have to.
Author:
Sparky Anderson
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That's probably half the reason I wanted to be in a band - I wanted to see the world.
Author:
Jeff Ament
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Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason.
Author:
Ethan Allen
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As far as pacing the shoot is concerned, I know when I've got it. I don't think there's any reason to take ten takes unless you need them.
Author:
Debbie Allen
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Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to.
Author:
Alvin Ailey
