All Quotes

The reason why bookstores are going out of business in the States is that people just can't focus on longer narratives now - even narrative film is in crisis in many ways, unless it's an adventure film.
‐‐ Barbara Kruger

The reason why Botswana has done very well is because it's the only black African country which went back to its roots and built upon its own indigenous institutions.
‐‐ George Ayittey

The reason why Broken Men only became Untouchables was because in addition to being Buddhists, they retained their habit of beef-eating, which gave additional ground for offence to the Brahmins to carry their new-found love and reverence to the cow to its logical conclusion.
‐‐ B. R. Ambedkar

The reason why China forecasting has such a poor track record is that Westerners constantly invoke the model and experience of the West to explain China, and it is a false prophet. Until we start trying to understand China on its own terms, rather than as a Western-style nation in the making, we will continue to get it wrong.
‐‐ Martin Jacques

The reason why Hollywood cranks out so many sequels and adaptations is because the audience is so overwhelmed with choices, the only way to get them in the theater is to give them something familiar.
‐‐ David Wong

The reason why I am proud of my part in the punk movement is that I think it really did implant a message that was already there. The hippies told it to me, but punk made it something cool for people to stand up for, which is that we do not believe government, that we are against government.
‐‐ Vivienne Westwood

The reason why I buy into the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party is because there are over 2,000 verses of Scripture that deal with responding to the needs of the poor.
‐‐ Tony Campolo

The reason why I called it 'I Told You' is because I wanted to show people that I have been doubted, and I have been in the face of adversity. Coming out of that situation, this is my 'I told you' moment.
‐‐ Tory Lanez

The reason why I found acting is because my father passed away. He passed away really young. I was going to go to med school. My father's dream was that all of his kids become doctors. I realized in school I didn't like it. When he died, it was like a wake-up call. Life is too short to do something you don't want to do.
‐‐ Adepero Oduye

The reason why I hate working in theatre is the tedium of memorisation. But once that is done, then you feast on this never-ending meal. If you play it correctly, every night is fraught with very high stakes that are very difficult to find in everyday life.
‐‐ Christopher Meloni

The reason why I have lost weight is that I looked at the international schedule and thought that I wanted to play for another two years. It is a very hectic schedule and if I want to get through that then I have to be in the best shape that I can.
‐‐ Shane Warne

The reason why I have survived as long as I have survived is what my friends, comrades and supporters thought was an extraordinarily cautious approach.
‐‐ Ernst Zundel

The reason why I like theater is because it's a long journey, and no matter what role you play, we are all in it together.
‐‐ Condola Rashad

The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don't always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn't have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I'm interested in the exceptions.
‐‐ Chris Cleave

The reason why I love to win is because I don't have to go through that feeling of losing. It's those times where I lose that feeling that will stick with me.
‐‐ Manti Te'o

The reason why I'm a conservative is because conservative policies work and they improve opportunities. They are the avenue for climbing the economic dream.
‐‐ Ted Cruz

The reason why I'm here today is to explain why I am running and what I will do if you give me the honor and the privilege of representing you in the United States Senate. Now I'm running for the United State Senate for a simple reason, and that is... I want to win a Nobel Peace prize.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

The reason why I'm in Parliament is not really to see my colleagues win power; it is to see us at last in a position where we can give it up.
‐‐ Michael Gove

The reason why I'm sending my super-intellectual 12-year old kid to tech school is because I don't believe he would succeed in this world unless he first learned to work with his hands.
‐‐ Casey Neistat

The reason why I meditate and pray in general is just to remind myself that it is not about me.
‐‐ Macklemore

The reason why I moved from Young Thug to Jeffery was because I felt like I did a wrong turn.
‐‐ Young Thug

The reason why I started the clothing line Licious is because I had trouble finding clothes for my body type. I figured if I'm having trouble finding clothes for me, being curvy, I know girls with my body type are probably facing the same issue. And so with the help of my designer, I came up with the idea of creating my own clothing line.
‐‐ Coco Austin

The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at an end. I can not be satisfied in any business and can not be without their companionship.
‐‐ Alex Campbell

The reason why I've been keeping private for the longest time ever here, I've always wanted to protect my wife's privacy. I don't like - I didn't want to put her picture all over the news. I just wanted to keep her private.
‐‐ Michael Schiavo

The reason why it is so difficult for existing firms to capitalize on disruptive innovations is that their processes and their business model that make them good at the existing business actually make them bad at competing for the disruption.
‐‐ Clayton Christensen

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
‐‐ John Locke

The reason why Millennials are inspiring is what they give: the music they give.
‐‐ Luis Coronel

The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.
‐‐ Alice Miller

The reason why people are huge stars is nothing to do with acting. It's the magic. Charisma is a word that's used too often; it's something special, and it's what makes stars. It's luck, and basically, it's genes.
‐‐ Shirley Eaton

The reason why people wear pajamas to the airport in the first place is so that they'll be comfortable during their flight. But you know, typically, air travel is 50 to 75 percent of the time you spend traveling. The rest of the time you spend in public places like airports and around other people. That's when looking good trumps comfort.
‐‐ Casey Neistat

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
‐‐ Samuel Smiles

The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature, was, the fall of our first parents.
‐‐ George Whitefield

The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.
‐‐ Andy Goldsworthy

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reason why there is more pessimism about technology in Europe has to do with history, the use of databases to keep track of people in the camps, ecological disasters.
‐‐ Evgeny Morozov

The reason why Three Mile Island makes such a big impact is because of a Jane Fonda movie called 'The China Syndrome.'
‐‐ Burton Richter

The reason why time plays a great part in so many of my tales is that this element looms up in my mind as the most profoundly dramatic and grimly terrible thing in the universe.
‐‐ H. P. Lovecraft

The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made me feel that maths was in tune with the other things I liked doing.
‐‐ Marcus du Sautoy

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
‐‐ Robert Frost

The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I'm just gonna tell her, 'Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they'll have to hire you, they can't really fire you, and you don't have to produce that much. It'll be awesome.'
‐‐ Adam Carolla

The reason why you were allowed to get away with that in the '60s and '70s is because this country's racist administrative policies were such that rich white kids were getting exemptions. I said no exemptions.
‐‐ Montel Williams

The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.
‐‐ Phyllis Diller

The reason you can take the leap of faith with Stephen King, when it comes to the paranormal, or the things that happen in the world that he creates, is because the characters that he writes are accessible.
‐‐ Emily Rose

The reason you do this stuff - comedy, plays, movies - is to be seized by something, to disappear in the service of an idea.
‐‐ Mike Nichols

The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm - it's elation, it's mood swings, and you're killing all that when you take the drug.
‐‐ Helen Fisher

The reason you want to act is to continue to explore every different part of the human psyche.
‐‐ Jesse Plemons

The reason you work as an artist is to stay open and ask questions.
‐‐ Robert Wilson

The reasoning for our civil-military plan is that lasting success will be when the Afghan government, security forces and people can resist the insurgents and terrorists themselves.
‐‐ Bob Ainsworth