All Quotes

One of the reasons I'm an actor is because I was no physical specimen as a child. I wasn't athletic and didn't have any prowess in that regard. Growing up in Kentucky, most little boys were trying to get into sports, and it was very competitive, so that was not to be. But I did want to do something.
‐‐ Michael Shannon

One of the reasons I'm an interesting person to be married to is my intensely late-blooming self-awareness.
‐‐ John Ortberg

One of the reasons I'm reluctant to start a novel is it's such an obsessive activity. You get in there, you don't know anything else while you're in there. And that's quite a sacrifice to make, especially for us old guys where time is kind of short. You don't want to disappear for a year; you want to be outdoors.
‐‐ Thomas McGuane

One of the reasons I'm so competitive - I mean, I'm not winning much anymore - at my age was because I always worked hard and because we have a level playing field. We don't have motorbikes in the peloton anymore.
‐‐ Jens Voigt

One of the reasons I'm so passionate about science is that it wasn't correctly taught to me. I got excited at university.
‐‐ Elise Andrew

One of the reasons I moved to New York was because I thought it would be easier to say no to dreadful scripts. I wouldn't be tempted to fly back and do them. There are some things even I won't do.
‐‐ Kathryn Harrold

One of the reasons I never had a problem handing over my characters to other creators is that I knew that they would add their own influences and takes on the characters and make them better for it.
‐‐ Jim Lee

One of the reasons I started Tzadik, which is my own label, is to keep things in print. I got tired of labels dropping things out of print when they don't sell.
‐‐ John Zorn

One of the reasons I started working at 'South Park,' actually, was that I wanted to learn how to structure things and how to tell a story.
‐‐ Bill Hader

One of the reasons I survived as well as I did was my genetics. My mother and father both had very tough lives, and boy, were they survivors.
‐‐ Patty Duke

One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story.
‐‐ David Selby

One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.
‐‐ Kathy Acker

One of the reasons I've been able to be productive is that I want to do everything.
‐‐ T. C. Boyle

One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.
‐‐ A. S. Byatt

One of the reasons I've never done intensive psychotherapy or any of that stuff is that if there's anything in me that needs fixing, I want to know that I can rely on my own intuition to fix it.
‐‐ Kate Winslet

One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here, the hardest thing to go out and hear was country music. Country was taking place inside the studio and it was an export.
‐‐ Callie Khouri

One of the reasons I wanted to leave my position at Common Cause and return to politics was to regain the freedom to speak out politically - to not be constrained by a non-partisan organization.
‐‐ Chellie Pingree

One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace that I knew was possible of deaf people.
‐‐ Stephanie Beacham

One of the reasons I was so unhappy for years was because I never embraced my emotions and I was trying to stay in control.
‐‐ Demi Lovato

One of the reasons I write is to be in other people's skin.
‐‐ Kimberly Willis Holt

One of the reasons I wrote 'Airborn' was that I'd fallen in love with the great passenger airships which flew in the '20s and '30s. Their time was short-lived. They were frail, they tended to crash; and they could never be as fast, safe and efficient as the airplanes that replaced them.
‐‐ Kenneth Oppel

One of the reasons I wrote 'The Fall' is that climbing's more than a sport, it's a way of life. When you're in it, it's all you think about.
‐‐ Simon Mawer

One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don't like to think of themselves as poor.
‐‐ Jay-Z

One of the reasons it's important for me to write about war is I really think that the concept of war, the specifics of war, the nature of war, the ethical ambiguities of war, are introduced too late to children. I think they can hear them, understand them, know about them, at a much younger age without being scared to death by the stories.
‐‐ Suzanne Collins

One of the reasons it's so difficult to study the relationship between diet and disease is because many dietary behaviors are associated with non-dietary behaviors.
‐‐ Michael Greger

One of the reasons microcomputers progressed so fast is people are willing to accept crashes. It's faster to build something and try it, even if it means you'll have to rebuild later... If you spent too much time building and massaging one vehicle, you don't learn anything.
‐‐ John Carmack

One of the reasons MSNBC is plummeting is that I, not long ago, refused to play any content from them. I figured, why? I mean, it's genuine depraved partisan politics insanity, genuine extremist radical ignoramuses on that network.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh

One of the reasons my ex-husband and I broke up is that he stopped eating my food.
‐‐ Jill Scott

One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

One of the reasons people feel so alienated from the American political process is in the fights we get in here in Washington, no one's ever talking about them and the challenges they're going through.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

One of the reasons people find me a believable actor is that I don't seem like one of the gods from Olympus. I seem like someone who was lucky enough to be let into Olympus.
‐‐ John C. Reilly

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
‐‐ Cal Thomas

One of the reasons people like romances is that they're artificially shaped to give a pattern and meaning. It's not as messy as everyday life or as difficult or thorny.
‐‐ Melissa Pritchard

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
‐‐ John W. Gardner

One of the reasons so many kids bought 'Famous Monsters' was that it gave them ability to order 8mm and Super-8 versions of their favorite monster movies.
‐‐ Harry Knowles

One of the reasons so many people get burned in the market is because they start buying as they see prices going up.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.
‐‐ Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of them. On the table, the anatomy is so different from normal, that you're constantly trying to figure out, 'Can I cut this? Does this wire lead to what?' It's like trying to defuse a bomb.
‐‐ Ben Carson

One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.
‐‐ Jeffrey Eugenides

One of the reasons that I accepted, once asked to do Star Trek, was to give a single child a chance to see the long thought, to see themselves some 400 years hence. It occurred to me that we must ensure that we keep in front of children the ever-changing horizon.
‐‐ Avery Brooks

One of the reasons that I do a lot of different kinds of pictures is because I learn a lot when I'm doing them.
‐‐ Jennifer Jason Leigh

One of the reasons that I'm still in the military - or I stayed in the military - is because I think the military has been a place where certainly people could improve, advance, and were treated fairly.
‐‐ Michael Mullen

One of the reasons that I take such joy in being a trustee of the New York Public Library is the love of reading that I found as a child in the Saturday morning library events for preschoolers and first and second graders as I was growing up in Augusta, GA.
‐‐ Jessye Norman

One of the reasons that I think I do love to write is because I did have a difficult childhood and not so great teenage years. It always helped me escape from my problems.
‐‐ Meg Cabot

One of the reasons that New York became great was that it's serviced by many, many different rivers and waterways. You have the Atlantic Ocean connected virtually right to it, and it's serviced by the East River and the Hudson River and lots of tributaries.
‐‐ Donald Trump

One of the reasons that Social Security is in so much trouble is that the only funding stream comes from people who get a wage. The people who get wages is declining dramatically. Most of the income in this country is made by people at the top who get dividends and - and capital gains.
‐‐ Mike Huckabee

One of the reasons that the Senate was structured and founded the way it is, as opposed to the House, it was designed for gridlock. It was designed to stop massive new laws being passed and voted on daily. It was designed to stop the growth of government.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh

One of the reasons the deficit got as big as it did, frankly, was because of the economic slowdown, the fall-off in deficits, the terrorist attacks. A significant chunk was taken out of the economy by what happened after the attacks of 9/11.
‐‐ Dick Cheney

One of the reasons the doctors gave for hospitalizing me against my will was that I was 'gravely disabled.' To support this view, they wrote in my chart that I was unable to do my Yale Law School homework. I wondered what that meant about much of the rest of New Haven.
‐‐ Elyn Saks

One of the reasons this election is so important is because the Supreme Court hangs in the balance. We need to overturn that terrible Supreme Court decision, Citizens United, and then reform our whole campaign finance system.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton