At primary school, it was always me and this other girl, Lauren, who would fight over who was the fastest every year. I was quicker, but for some reason, she always got the glory leg in the relay team. That used to annoy me.
The reason I haven't had kids yet is because I was so focused on my acting career, hoping I could get something to break.
Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.
I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.
Whatever the reason is, I hope we can finish talking about the Olympics. It's gone, it's behind us. The schedule wasn't proper for players who went there and there is some fatigue in a lot guys' play right now.
I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.
I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.
This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.
Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.
Actually, that issue of 'Don't be evil' is probably the number one reason we throw out ideas.
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
Resorting to violence and the use of force at holy sites is unacceptable, whatever the reason might be.
I cried when I turned 34 for no other reason than 34 sounded old to me at the time.
I believe everything happens for a reason.
A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason it produces no real effect whatever on profits.
They're there because, for some reason, they have the notion that they're supposed to be there.
We must stop the Tea Party before the United States Senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no room for reason or compromise, who don't recognize common ground even when they're standing on it.
The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself as an 'artist' - I hate that word. The only way you could be 'arty' was as a fashion photographer, because it still had a certain amount of integrity involved.
What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?
Even as you enter the fourth year after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush is still misleading and deluding you and hiding the real reason from you.
Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why.
My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
I've been a little more fortunate, perhaps, than a lot of people have, for the simple reason that I've constantly been moving: so nobody can hit me - you know what I mean? Protesting is not the answer - not along those lines.
For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.
For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called.
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
I just want to make stories. They don't have to have a moral or a reason. There might be some mild cautionary notes, but they're not moral. They don't impart any Judeo-Christian ethic of any kind.
If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.
Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private.
India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
