All Quotes

Because books are written by individuals, it has often made knowledge seem like the product of individuals, even though everybody has always understood that individuals are working within the social network.
‐‐ David Weinberger

Because Buffy really has become the straight man, every once in a while it's nice to be the one that tells the joke and it's nice to be the one that is the joke and it's nice to do something that's a little bit different.
‐‐ Sarah Michelle Gellar

Because 'Call The Midwife' is a gentle drama, not a documentary, it's not appropriate to portray Sister Monica Joan's condition in all its brutal reality.
‐‐ Judy Parfitt

Because cap and trade is enforced through the selling and trading of permits, it actually perpetuates the pollution it is supposed to eliminate.
‐‐ James Hansen

Because capitalist society has expanded the productive forces so enormously, the social conditions under which it arose lag behind and become fetters holding back the further growth of productive forces.
‐‐ Earl Browder

Because characters are your creations, you are the one who ultimately gets to decide their fate.
‐‐ Alexandra Adornetto

Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.
‐‐ Dan Ariely

Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.
‐‐ Mel Torme

Because comedy is cheap to put on: if you've got a play or an opera, there's a whole load of people and a set, but comedy is just one man or woman. And because TV has learned to love comics - there's so many more around now than when I started out.
‐‐ Arthur Smith

Because contemporary paganism is essentially so new, its underlying ethical structure is not particularly sophisticated.
‐‐ Liz Williams

Because countries often have differing political and economic systems, agreements are needed to protect those invested in trade.
‐‐ David Suzuki

Because Dad was famous, I was so used to being identified as 'John Huston's daughter' that I couldn't think of myself as anyone else.
‐‐ Allegra Huston

Because dancing is way more fun than the treadmill, I downloaded the video of Beyonce's 'Single Ladies' and started to learn her dance. Let me tell you, if I ever did that dance in a club, I would still be a single lady! But what a workout!
‐‐ Marissa Jaret Winokur

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.
‐‐ Julia Sweeney

Because each are going to blame each other. The thing that Canberra has to really get right is the sharing of the resource. But my problem with people in the government who are there for a short time is that there's no consequences for some of these decisions they make.
‐‐ Rex Hunt

Because economics is all about optimising, doing the best you can with what you have - it's usually the first place you should look for answers if you want to maximise your happiness.
‐‐ Emily Oster

Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon.
‐‐ Michael F. Easley

Because Ernest Lawrence's award came in the war years, I had the unusual opportunity of attending his Nobel Prize presentation ceremony.
‐‐ Luis Walter Alvarez

Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits.
‐‐ Richard Foreman

Because even very young people are expert readers of pictures, you can convey very complex and subtle messages through pictures that you'd need loads of words to explain. Making a picture book is also a bit like making your own film - and you can make anything you want happen, however impossible!
‐‐ Mini Grey

Because every design must satisfy competing objectives, there necessarily has to be compromise among, if not the complete exclusion of, some of those objectives, in order to meet what are considered the more important of them.
‐‐ Henry Petroski

Because everybody always encouraged me to sing, I assumed that I wasn't bad at it. It felt like it was obvious what I was going to pursue. I thought I was good for as long as I can remember.
‐‐ Tinashe

Because everyone in the world has the power to edit, Wikipedia has long been plagued by the so-called edit war. This is like a house where the husband wants it warm and the wife wants it cool and they sneak back and forth adjusting the thermostat at cross purposes.
‐‐ James Gleick

Because everyone is someone's child, every woman seems like someone's mother.
‐‐ Megan Fox

Because everything about the voice interests me, I felt it would be fascinating to learn a completely different style of singing.
‐‐ Renee Fleming

Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.
‐‐ Dale Turner

Because fashion essentially is art, and as an artist and someone who is also a musician and an artist in regards to drawing and painting, anything I can do that expresses my feelings is something I'm really drawn to.
‐‐ Ruby Rose

Because financially capable consumers ultimately contribute to a stable economic and financial system as well as improve their own financial situations, it's clear that the Federal Reserve has a significant stake in financial education.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

Because, first of all, we were becoming aware during that tour that there was a group of people that was following the band around, and they weren't interested in coming in to the shows, they were just interested in hangin' out outside and tryin' to break in.
‐‐ Phil Lesh

Because for me, '60s pop music is amongst the most complicated or complex music because it has so many resonances which strike you. The music itself is often simple, but the way that I interpret it, or the way I think it's interpreted culturally, is very complex.
‐‐ Tim Gane

Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.
‐‐ Fiona Apple

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.
‐‐ Desmond Tutu

Because fossil fuels are not only a finite resource but hazardous to the environment, it is imperative that we diversify the resources used in generating electricity.
‐‐ Pete Gallego

Because Genentech is a leading developer of cancer therapies, some doctors also fear that the company's pricing plans for Avastin - around $8,800 a month - may encourage other companies to charge more for their own oncology drugs.
‐‐ Alex Berenson

Because God gave you your makeup and superintended every moment of your past, including all the hardship, pain, and struggles, He wants to use your words in a unique manner. No one else can speak through your vocal cords, and, equally important, no one else has your story.
‐‐ Charles R. Swindoll

Because God only knows why people like what they like and don't like something else.
‐‐ Elliott Smith

Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.
‐‐ Matt Groening

Because Great Britain has self-confidence, it doesn't need a monumental Olympics.
‐‐ Ai Weiwei

Because he'll take me to Cuba and I don't want to go to Cuba.
‐‐ Elian Gonzalez

Because her voice is, it's like the muscles and it develops all the time. That was the fantastic thing for us.
‐‐ Andrew Lloyd Webber

Because Hightower's problem, among other things, is that advertisers would be a lot less interested in his show than in Limbaugh's, even if they have similar ratings, because of what Hightower is saying.
‐‐ Robert McChesney

Because hip-hop has no requirements, you deal with people that have the least intelligence on the planet. Some of the people that compare themselves to me, compare themselves to me because they rap and I rap. They can't even read the contracts that they sign to be a rapper, to do the deal.
‐‐ Curtis Jackson

Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone's sexuality is unique.
‐‐ Bill Condon

Because homecoming came first, and there was the homecoming court. The five guys on homecoming court were disqualified from being in the prom court. So being prom king was being sixth most popular.
‐‐ Andy Richter

Because homophobia is still largely driven by the church, it's legitimised. It's also tied to sexism, because those two are never far apart.
‐‐ Marlon James

Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.
‐‐ Rebecca West

Because I actually find the next take after they've controlled it a little bit and repressed the laughter is actually a really interesting take, because that's still going on underneath the surface. That struggle to maintain composure becomes part of the joy of the scene.
‐‐ Jay Roach

Because I am a horrible flincher, contact lenses are not an option. I'm always envious of contact-wearers. There are endless reasons to take off one's glasses during the day and, as I have grown older, what I don't see has become increasingly pronounced.
‐‐ Sloane Crosley

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood