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Reason Quotes


"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."


"Sometimes I like them artificial and sometimes I like them real. And the reason is because sometimes I like a real close sound. And I like a very specific snare sound and I can't get that in the big room."


"No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct."


"But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically."


"Obviously it's critical that the three cars are able to contribute to the program. I think that certainly has given much of the reason as to why we did so well at Indy over the last several years."


"It doesn't really seem any different anywhere. I'd say it seems like we're biggest in Australia. It's just that we've always been this underground band and for some reason in the last month has been starting to go overground."



"I know the only reason that I haven't gotten many good parts is because I am Latin - and they tell it to my face a lot of times."


"The reason we're so dangerous is because we're totally harmless."



"There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect."



"The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move."


"When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics."


"What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it."


"Every part I've done has been for one reason or another-money, or the part, or the director, or the location. I'd like to get one thing that's all of those combined."


"Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies."



"The only reason I'm coming out here tomorrow is the schedule says I have to."


"The number one reason I write is to come to schools and see my readers. I would do it for free."


"I don't believe things happen in vain. I believe they happen for a reason."


"If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose."


"I'm hyperactive, and I went in the studio and I would just start making records, for no reason."


"We shall have to pass through many a valley, many a narrow defile. Many will grow tired on the way. Of course they will mostly be those who have no reason to do so."


"As far as pacing the shoot is concerned, I know when I've got it. I don't think there's any reason to take ten takes unless you need them."


"One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need."


"Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching."


"I'm the reason why I'm overweight. No one made me do it. I did it."


"Reason and Faith are not antithetical, but rather synergistic."



"They know what my standards are. They know what I need and how to get it to me, and they know how to communicate with me if for some reason they can't get it."


"That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done."


"I believe Johnson understood that the reason was Vietnam. I also believe that he felt that if there was a way to communicate the real issues in Vietnam, that the reasons would be answered or understood. But there was just no way to communicate."



"Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint."


"Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?"


"The reason Ronald Reagan gets slammed for having so badly exacerbated the problem of deficit spending is that he so plainly deserves it."


"The only reason anyone ever called me a hero is because I get this paper, here."



"Whiskey - I like it, I always did, and that is the reason I never use it."


"The main advantage of the omniscient approach is that it's the easiest to handle. That's the major reason so many writers select it."



"Reason can be used only when looking critically back."


"One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages."
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