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"I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply."
Theodore Sturgeon
"I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply."
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"For some reason in Spring Training, everything just clicked. You don't try to do anything in Spring Training but get ready, but things fell into place."
Bobby Bonilla
"For some reason in Spring Training, everything just clicked. You don't try to do anything in Spring Training but get ready, but things fell into place."
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"They're there because, for some reason, they have the notion that they're supposed to be there."
Santiago Durango
"They're there because, for some reason, they have the notion that they're supposed to be there."
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"For some reason, on that sparkling afternoon last week, I actually saw the coal that was passing by and it set me to thinking how important coal was to our everyday lives when I was a little boy."
Nick Clooney
"For some reason, on that sparkling afternoon last week, I actually saw the coal that was passing by and it set me to thinking how important coal was to our everyday lives when I was a little boy."
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"If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist."
Annie Leibovitz
"If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist."
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"Please understand the reason why Chinese vegetables taste so good. It is simple. The Chinese do not cook them, they just threaten them!"
Jeff Smith
"Please understand the reason why Chinese vegetables taste so good. It is simple. The Chinese do not cook them, they just threaten them!"
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"The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century."
E. L. Doctorow
"The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century."
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"It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason."
Clare Boothe Luce
"It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason."
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"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 in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out."
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"I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it."
George G. Simpson
"I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it."
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"But I don't think there's any reason to get married again, especially after what I've been through."
Liza Minnelli
"But I don't think there's any reason to get married again, especially after what I've been through."
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"The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt."
Maimonides
"The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt."
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"I'm really starting to think everything happens for a reason."
Samantha Mumba
"I'm really starting to think everything happens for a reason."
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"I'm not competing in Iowa for a reason."
Jon Huntsman, Jr.
"I'm not competing in Iowa for a reason."
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"As for sacred polyphony, there is no reason to be afraid of it."
Richard Morris
"As for sacred polyphony, there is no reason to be afraid of it."
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"I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say."
Elizabeth Gaskell
"I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say."
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"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason."
Jerry Seinfeld
"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason."
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"The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again."
Erma Bombeck
"The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again."
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"The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing."
Phyllis Diller
"The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing."
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"My classmates would copulate with anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself."
Emo Philips
"My classmates would copulate with anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself."
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"I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the star-less night, -- blown and flared by passion's storm, -- and yet, it is the only light. Extinguish that, and nought remains."
Robert Green Ingersoll
"I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the star-less night, -- blown and flared by passion's storm, -- and yet, it is the only light. Extinguish that, and nought remains."
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"Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever."
Arthur Keith
"Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever."
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"There's a reason screens are only this thick."
John Malkovich
"There's a reason screens are only this thick."
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"I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like."
Lara St. John
"I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like."
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"I think if you run away from who you are, that you're a Democrat and you're proud to be a Democrat, it's foolish. And the reason it's foolish is you've got a lot to be proud of."
Tim Kaine
"I think if you run away from who you are, that you're a Democrat and you're proud to be a Democrat, it's foolish. And the reason it's foolish is you've got a lot to be proud of."
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"The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself."
Johann G. Hamann
"The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself."
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"That's probably half the reason I wanted to be in a band - I wanted to see the world."
Jeff Ament
"That's probably half the reason I wanted to be in a band - I wanted to see the world."
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"The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience."
John Cale
"The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience."
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"The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason."
Navjot Singh Sidhu
"The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason."
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"There is no good reason for our cattle producers to have such limited market access. Our beef is the best in the world, and we need to be allowed to reach global markets."
Conrad Burns
"There is no good reason for our cattle producers to have such limited market access. Our beef is the best in the world, and we need to be allowed to reach global markets."
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"Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety."
Moliere
"Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety."
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"I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason."
Kevin Spacey
"I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason."
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"I always believe there's a reason why you go through everything."
John Elway
"I always believe there's a reason why you go through everything."
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"Where the senses fail us, reason must step in."
Galileo Galilei
"Where the senses fail us, reason must step in."
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"It's heartbreaking but we're trying to get over it. As disappointed as we were, I think that somehow you have to find a way to think that it happened for a reason."
Caroline Dhavernas
"It's heartbreaking but we're trying to get over it. As disappointed as we were, I think that somehow you have to find a way to think that it happened for a reason."
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"But if I've heard this saying once, I've heard it a thousand times- everything happens for a reason. And possibly it does. I just haven't found the reason that this all happened yet."
Jerry Lawler
"But if I've heard this saying once, I've heard it a thousand times- everything happens for a reason. And possibly it does. I just haven't found the reason that this all happened yet."
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"I'm driven. I am. I'm driven for some reason. But I don't know where I'm going."
Courtney Love
"I'm driven. I am. I'm driven for some reason. But I don't know where I'm going."
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"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 lasted for 30 years is for one reason and one reason only: Classic Rock radio."
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"I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it."
Alison Bechdel
"I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it."
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"Vanity is the quicksand of reason."
George Sand
"Vanity is the quicksand of reason."
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"I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely."
Ava Gardner
"I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely."
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"The real reason your pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing at you."
Phyllis Diller
"The real reason your pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing at you."
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"This generation of filmmakers is very good. They're seasoned, for some reason."
Dennis Farina
"This generation of filmmakers is very good. They're seasoned, for some reason."
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"You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way."
Martin Landau
"You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way."
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"I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well."
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"All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation."
Charles Baudelaire
"All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation."
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"For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me."
Alison Bechdel
"For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me."
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"Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness."
Giacomo Casanova
"Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness."
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"You get to a point where the factual adjudication doesn't matter because there are all these other outlets that are far less responsible, all talking about the ad, some of which have a political reason for promoting it."
David Brock
"You get to a point where the factual adjudication doesn't matter because there are all these other outlets that are far less responsible, all talking about the ad, some of which have a political reason for promoting it."
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"Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent."
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
"Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent."
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