All Quotes

Because it's in and about New York City, I knew 'Ex Machina' was going to have to continually mix the mundane and the fantastic.
‐‐ Brian K. Vaughan

Because it's not only that a child is inseparable from the family in which he lives, but that the lives of families are determined by the community in which they live and the cultural tradition from which they come.
‐‐ Bernice Weissbourd

Because it's so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, 'likes' and view counts, social media have become the metier of choice for many people who might otherwise channel that energy into books, music or art - or even into their own Web ventures.
‐‐ Neil Strauss

Because it's uncensored cable, I think we'll be able to do the kind of sketch comedy that really hasn't been seen before. We can actually finish jokes.
‐‐ Aries Spears

Because it was my first time acting in English, everyone on set was difficult to understand. It was a mix of Scottish, Irish, British and American English. To understand a Scottish accent or an Irish accent was so hard.
‐‐ Sibel Kekilli

Because it was one of my favorites from the Arthurian legend, one of the things that I really enjoyed doing was the legend of the crystal cave. In my head, it was fun to imagine what it was going to look like because there was a lot of CGI involved, in seeing visions of the future reflected within crystals.
‐‐ Colin Morgan

Because it was the original 4 guys, and the dynamic of those 4 guys interacting together that had the power.
‐‐ Ronnie Montrose

Because its hard to realize now that that was the end of the great depression, you know. All of a sudden all of this is in front of me and I'm solvent, you know. I'm making some money and I know where my next meal is coming from, and I have a new pair of shoes and that's it.
‐‐ Robert McCloskey

Because Jesus came to secure for us what we could never secure for ourselves, life doesn't have to be a tireless effort to establish ourselves, justify ourselves, validate ourselves.
‐‐ Tullian Tchividjian

Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other places as well, there isn't an ability to identify with a national heritage - you'll never hear a Jew say 'I'm German' or 'I'm Polish,' without saying something about being Jewish as well, and for good reason.
‐‐ Adam Mansbach

Because Judaism and Christianity are both covenantal religions, the relationship of the individual Jew or Christian to God is always within covenanted community.
‐‐ David Novak

Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
‐‐ Francois Rabelais

Because Katrina put it out there, no one can play the pretend game anymore that there isn't poverty and inequality in this country. The Millions More Movement - Katrina gives it added significance.
‐‐ Marc Morial

Because kids are physically smaller, there's an assumption by people who haven't read a kids' book for a long time that their ideas and themes and problems and ambitions must be commensurately smaller and less important. I would venture that sometimes the opposite is true.
‐‐ Morris Gleitzman

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.
‐‐ Louise Bogan

Because Larry, by then, was a drummer, who would sort of get bored and tired, and rather stand up and blow kisses to people. So we needed the bass to sort of drive along.
‐‐ Neil Innes

Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
‐‐ Stephen Fry

Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.
‐‐ Rich Lowry

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs.
‐‐ Henry Louis Gates

Because love encompasses everything, nothing is unimportant, including tonight's dinner menu. Think about it for a minute. If you were pure love, the loving parent of all life, how would you want people to eat?
‐‐ Victoria Moran

Because makeup happens in my life as an actor, face wash is a key. I use La Mer cleansing gel every morning, every night, sometimes three times a day. Also, I use Bobbi Brown's Hydrating Face Tonic that you put on after you wash your face. It just rejuvenates your face. It takes away that morning face.
‐‐ Eric Stonestreet

Because making movies is such an expensive endeavor, other media such as books and comics have long been a more feasible way to experiment with truly new ideas.
‐‐ Anita Elberse

Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.
‐‐ John P. Kotter

Because many of us have been in game shows for some time, there's always someone around who can share a story of Johnny O or Jay Stewart that I never heard.
‐‐ Randy West

Because many squid have brain nerve fibres that are hundreds of times thicker than those of humans, neuroscientists have long used them for research. These nerve fibres have led to so many breakthroughs in the study of neurons that many scientists joke that the squid should receive a Nobel Prize.
‐‐ David Grann

Because mechanism designers do not generally know which outcomes are optimal in advance, they have to proceed more indirectly than simply prescribing outcomes by fiat; in particular, the mechanisms designed must generate the information needed as they are executed.
‐‐ Eric Maskin

Because Melissa McCarthy actually is a fat woman, she isn't allowed to make brash statements about body acceptance. She has to apologize for her body.
‐‐ Jennifer Armintrout

Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.
‐‐ Isaac Barrow

Because microfinance is so manageable in terms of the size of the loan, people have made it the cornerstone to lifting women out of poverty.
‐‐ Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Because Microsoft seems to sometimes not trust customer choice, they salt XP with all these little gizmos and trap doors to get people to try Microsoft stuff. But the reality is that we're downloading more players than we ever have on a worldwide basis.
‐‐ Rob Glaser

Because Mint has access to all of your bank accounts and credit cards, we can detect fraud or unusual spending patterns faster than your bank, then send an email or text message alert to users.
‐‐ Aaron Patzer

Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take.
‐‐ Kathy Ireland

Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.
‐‐ Camille Paglia

Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.
‐‐ Laura Riding

Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
‐‐ Jim Harrison

Because Mr. Mandela's early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
‐‐ Aberjhani

Because muscle is heavier than fat, dancers weigh more than you might think, but they are usually very lean.
‐‐ Deborah Bull

Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.
‐‐ Marianne Wiggins

Because my business life is so busy, my home is really my sanctuary. That is where I reflect and spend quality time with my girls.
‐‐ Rachel Roy

Because my career has been based so much on my looks, when I finally pass my 'sell-by' date, I think I'll probably pack it in. Unless I make the changeover into playing witches or something, I don't see what career I can have.
‐‐ Kate O'Mara

Because my career has gone so fast, I haven't been able to become confident.
‐‐ Leon Bridges

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God.
‐‐ Joyce Meyer

Because my dad died when I was young, and I have a severely disabled sister, I couldn't really push the envelope at home.
‐‐ Rory Kinnear

Because my dad's Chinese-American, and they're very concrete, he said, 'There's no money to be made in literature.' So he told me to go into the sciences. And I was a good girl. And I did what Daddy said. And that's how I ended up being a doctor. But you know, you just can't stamp out that desire to tell stories.
‐‐ Tess Gerritsen

Because my father is French, my first school was the Lycee Francais de Londres in Kensington.
‐‐ Claire Tomalin

Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system.
‐‐ Trisha Goddard

Because my father was an army officer, I was told to enter the military school during the war. Luckily or unluckily, one month before the entrance examination, I got polio, which made my right arm numb. It's still numb.
‐‐ Masatoshi Koshiba

Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased.
‐‐ John James Audubon

Because my hair is colored, I always make sure to find shampoos and conditioners that don't contain sulfates.
‐‐ Bethany Mota