All Quotes

The reason I use ed is that I don't want to lose what's on the screen.
‐‐ Bill Joy

The reason I've been able to maintain my position of chairman of CBS in addition to all the Viacom stuff is my team.
‐‐ Leslie Moonves

The reason I've gotten so far has to do with an extraordinary talent that I had nothing to do with.
‐‐ Shelly Burch

The reason I've never gone for pilot season even as a younger actor, and wouldn't entertain that sort of thing now, is the idea of signing a piece of paper that binds me for six or seven years.
‐‐ Martin Freeman

The reason I want to show shocking things is that they always pose an ethical question.
‐‐ Park Chan-wook

The reason I wanted to be an actor is that I don't want to play me for the rest of my life and make money out of that.
‐‐ James D'arcy

The reason I wanted to do 'The First Men in the Moon' was that there is something so challenging in the combination of space travel and the Edwardian period.
‐‐ Mark Gatiss

The reason I wanted to start directing is that as an actor I felt I came into a job late. There's a whole team of people who have been working on it for months before you start. You have this really intense period of filming and then you leave it, knowing that the director will work on it for another few months.
‐‐ David Morrissey

The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply.
‐‐ Gary Vaynerchuk

The reason I was angry all the time was that Gloria Steinem and all those people, without reading my work, were saying all these horrible things against me.
‐‐ Camille Paglia

The reason I was in most of the movies I've done is that they paid for me to be in the theater.
‐‐ Nathan Lane

The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I should spend as much time on a blogger with a million-person readership as I would pitching an editor of a publication with a million person subscription-base.
‐‐ Timothy Ferriss

The reason I went for Jenny Craig is I thought, Maybe I'm not the only one who has stupid reasons for getting fat.
‐‐ Kirstie Alley

The reason I went to an all-boys Catholic school was because they had the best football team. We won the state championship my junior year. It was super-competitive. We lost in the semifinals my senior year, and it still haunts me.
‐‐ Theo Rossi

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.
‐‐ Etgar Keret

The reason I write romance is that I like happy endings. The idea, you know, 'It's not literature unless is ends badly,' and I really don't like that. There's enough misery and bad things happening in the world.
‐‐ Ruth Glick

The reason I wrote about women's golf is because I've helped out some with the Kathy Whitworth Cup, a tournament they have in Fort Worth every year where they invite 60 of the best junior golfers in the country and even some foreign players.
‐‐ Dan Jenkins

The reason I wrote 'I'm Too Young for This!' is to spare young women the suffering of hormonal loss - and it is true suffering. You can't sleep, you gain weight for no reason, you bloat for no reason, your moods are altered, and your sex drive is diminished.
‐‐ Suzanne Somers

The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it - politics - was important... that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
‐‐ Al Franken

The reason I wrote 'You Suck' was that I so enjoyed spending time with Tommy and Jody.
‐‐ Christopher Moore

The reason inflation was brought down to manageable levels, by the time of Ronald Reagan's re-election, was directly attributable to Jimmy Carter's very courageous act, hiring a Federal Reserve chair, with the charge to induce a recession. That recession was probably the reason he didn't win a second term.
‐‐ Rick Perlstein

The reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany.
‐‐ Franz Halder

The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation.
‐‐ Leslie Charteris

The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out.
‐‐ Michael Shermer

The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.
‐‐ V. S. Naipaul

The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.
‐‐ Ibrahim Babangida

The reason it has lasted for 30 years is for one reason and one reason only: Classic Rock radio.
‐‐ George Thorogood

The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing.
‐‐ Omar Sharif

The reason it has taken so long for the robotics industry to move forward is because people keep trying to make something that is cool but difficult to achieve rather than trying to find solutions to actual human problems. Technology can be extremely expensive if you don't focus.
‐‐ Colin Angle

The reason it's hard for me to tweet is I don't want to pronounce anything, and Twitter is for pronouncing.
‐‐ Jonathan Ames

The reason it takes us from November the second to December the sixth to certify is because we have a very tedious, very comprehensive process where we audit by precinct, across the state, every vote that was cast to make sure that every vote that was legally cast is counted.
‐‐ Kenneth Blackwell

The reason it was so bruising when someone said I was from a rich family is that, like many of us, I'm deeply invested - probably overly so - in the myth of my own self-creation. I like to believe that I got where I am, such as it is, by working hard and charting my own course.
‐‐ Meghan Daum

The reason Jennifer Lawrence is allowed to be a body-positive role model to young girls and 'chubby' women is because she is representative of conventional beauty.
‐‐ Jennifer Armintrout

The reason Joy Division and New Order are as influential and successful as they are is because of the unique playing of all the individuals.
‐‐ Peter Hook

The reason kids like rock 'n roll is their parents don't.
‐‐ Mitch Miller

The reason laziness is rarely pushed as a lifestyle option is down to one simple reason: money. There are fortunes to be made out of active lifestyles. Gyms charge fees. But no one is going to make money out of sleep. It is free.
‐‐ Tom Hodgkinson

The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.
‐‐ Edward T. Hall

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
‐‐ Elbert Hubbard

The reason most comedies don't win awards is that the filmmakers put the comedy first. This means you have to create a story around the jokes.
‐‐ Paul Feig

The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they don't see enough positive role models in their own environment.
‐‐ Marla Gibbs

The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.
‐‐ David Icke

The reason most people get eating disorders is because they want to be skinny, but they do it stupidly, and they stop eating completely - nobody knows anything about nutrition or exercise. I think it should be a separate subject in school.
‐‐ Kathryn Prescott

The reason most people sweat is so they will not catch fire while they are making love.
‐‐ Don Rose

The reason my kids come to the set is so I can actually see them.
‐‐ Eric Bana

The reason my kids like McDonald's is that they always know what they're going to get. It's not gourmet food, but the french fries they order in Indianapolis are just like the french fries they order in Tampa. Wherever they get McDonald's fries, they know it will be the same. That's what McDonald's does.
‐‐ Tony Dungy

The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart.
‐‐ Sammy Hagar

The reason New Orleans is still around is because of the celebrations it has inspired since its inception as a city. I'm always excited about the possibility of what might happen. That's what drives us, and I think that's the spirit of New Orleans and the spirit of jazz.
‐‐ Irvin Mayfield

The reason nobody else in my business has any impact is because they're all comatose.
‐‐ Harry Chapin

The reason nobody investigates the men who are trading off our freedoms for private enrichment is that they are the very ones who are doing the investigating.
‐‐ Nelson Algren

The reason of my life is not to be the most beautiful woman in the world.
‐‐ Isabella Rossellini