All Quotes

Because someone stole Gregory Peck's star on Hollywood Blvd., I have hired a Brink's guard to protect my star!
‐‐ Rip Taylor

Because sorry to say, women run the house. They run the family. They hold things up. I mean, it's like you don't ever see your mom get sick because she handles everything. And it's kind of amazing I think to show people just how strong women are.
‐‐ Sophia Bush

Because storytelling, and visual storytelling, was put in the hands of everybody, and we have all now become storytellers.
‐‐ LeVar Burton

Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.
‐‐ Daniel Berrigan

Because tax cuts create an incentive to increase output, employment, and production, they also help balance the budget by reducing means-tested government expenditures. A faster-growing economy means lower unemployment and higher incomes, resulting in reduced unemployment benefits and other social welfare programs.
‐‐ Arthur Laffer

Because technically actors are just public servants really. They just tell stories because people need to be told stories. That's all it is. And yet we get treated as though we're important.
‐‐ James McAvoy

Because TED is for, and by, unbelievably rich people, they tiptoe around questions of the justness of a society that rewards TED attendees so much for what usually amounts to a series of lucky breaks.
‐‐ Alex Pareene

Because teenagers don't have adult responsibilities yet, you can create your own drama, and it's a universe of your own emotions.
‐‐ Andrea Seigel

Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science.
‐‐ Steven Spielberg

Because terms limits are so popular, the interest of a member of Congress in staying in office would be congruent with supporting my term limits joint resolution.
‐‐ Ron DeSantis

Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven.
‐‐ Derek Walcott

Because that's just the way it is, and don't sleep on what you did before, you know, because it can... not hurt you, but you can find yourself sleeping on something that happened in the past, but you dare to progress and there is always room for progression.
‐‐ Thierry Henry

Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in.
‐‐ Diane Lane

Because the Asian market is so omnivorous, it affects all the shark populations up and down the Central and South American coast, and to a certain extent the East Coast of the United States as well.
‐‐ Peter Benchley

Because the better an organization is at fulfilling its purpose, the more it attracts people who see the organization as an opportunity to advance themselves.
‐‐ Robert Shea

Because the biological mechanisms that affect our health and well-being are so dynamic, when people change their diet and lifestyle, they usually feel so much better, so quickly; it reframes the reason for changing from fear of dying to joy of living. Also, the support that patients give each other is a powerful motivator.
‐‐ Dean Ornish

Because the Bush Administration will set no timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, both chambers of Congress acted to make sure our troops will not be left in Iraq indefinitely.
‐‐ Jan Schakowsky

Because the casual music listeners are the ones who turn on the radio and they don't really care what's playing, they just know that they kinda like it or it's easy to drive to or it's easy to sing along to or whatever.
‐‐ Michael Stipe

Because the competitive landscape of the web is such that the site which looks and works best gets the most traffic, developers and designers put a premium on the presentation of that content and let structural markup take a back seat.
‐‐ Mike Davidson

Because the completion of labour service was a precondition for permission to study at the university, I was able to begin my studies of Germanistics and Classical Philology during the summer term of 1939.
‐‐ Heinrich Boll

Because the fees associated with a reverse mortgage are high, such loans make sense only for borrowers who expect to live in their home for a number of years.
‐‐ Charles Duhigg

Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.
‐‐ Hanoi Hannah

Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?
‐‐ Jean Paul

Because the idea of zombies seems to make sense, and seems to, in a certain sense, be possible, I think one can use that to argue against the thesis that everything is purely physical. Now many people, I think, agree that the idea of zombies are conceivable, including people who want to be physicalists.
‐‐ David Chalmers

Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.
‐‐ George Ryan

Because the intention wasn't always to be an actor, that hasn't been my number one guiding principle.
‐‐ David Alpay

Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of publishing or broadcasting, because that's what we're used to. So people complain that there's a lot of rubbish online, or that it's dominated by Americans, or that you can't necessarily trust what you read on the Web.
‐‐ Douglas Adams

Because the Internet's there, I have access to a lot of the legends, like Fela Kuti. I used to watch a lot of Fela Kuti videos, just to see how he performed. He inspired me a lot, actually, because he was a man of many words, many good words.
‐‐ King Krule

Because the kind of nonfiction I write has a plot, the events and transactions that make up a life, nonfiction offers me a break from plotting.
‐‐ Kathryn Harrison

Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
‐‐ E. O. Wilson

Because the majority of my readers are women, I feel that one public service I can provide to them is to spread the message of regular mammograms and early detection within the strip.
‐‐ Cathy Guisewite

Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I'm thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it's our front, it's our face.
‐‐ Faith Ringgold

Because the more you write the more you're aware of the weight of your tradition and the difficulties of the form and the more you have already done that you do not want to do again.
‐‐ Tobias Wolff

Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents.
‐‐ Josh McDowell

Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
‐‐ Sam Childers

Because the picture is called 'Veronica Guerin,' you expect a biopic. But it's really about the last two years of her life.
‐‐ Cate Blanchett

Because the pop industry is cruel, if you don't do everything the label wants you to do, it has an army of other people waiting to do it.
‐‐ Rick Astley

Because the quality of living with nature and allowing it to manifest itself is different than the quality of living in a city, especially a dense city.
‐‐ Lawrence Halprin

Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000.
‐‐ Jay Inslee

Because the Savior is a resurrected and glorified being, He is not physically with every one of His servants at every moment. But He is perfectly aware of them and their circumstance and able to intervene with His power.
‐‐ Henry B. Eyring

Because the Second Amendment is an incomprehensible mess, because too many lobbyists have argued that it is an absolute protection of actions and items never considered at the time of our nation's founding, and because there is a clear state interest in protecting the lives of its citizens, the words must be removed from the Constitution.
‐‐ Kurt Eichenwald

Because the series is situated in the next century, and for the most part under water, there are many innovative technical gadgets. It's a kind of StarTrek. When I first came there, I was really impressed myself.
‐‐ Jonathan Brandis

Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets.
‐‐ Ted Allen

Because the stores worked, franchisees wanted to build more stores. If your model works, folks who are happy with it will buy out the ones who aren't happy.
‐‐ Fred DeLuca

Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned.
‐‐ Billy Higgins

Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.
‐‐ Lady Gaga

Because the task of a political leader is to do what he believes is better for his country. Sometimes the public opinion is in favor; sometimes the public opinion needs a little bit more time to understand things.
‐‐ Jose Maria Aznar

Because the theory of quantum mechanics could explain all of chemistry and the various properties of substances, it was a tremendous success. But still there was the problem of the interaction of light and matter.
‐‐ Richard P. Feynman

Because the time has come, well and truly come, for all peoples of our great country, for all citizens of our great commonwealth, for all Australians - those who are indigenous and those who are not - to come together to reconcile and together build a new future for our nation.
‐‐ Kevin Rudd

Because the truth is our wages are really competitive and they're good.
‐‐ Lee Scott