Because Quotes

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.

I wish President Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed. But his promises gave way to disappointment and division. This isn't something we have to accept. Now is the moment when we can do something. With your help we will do something.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

A lot of times I blend in a little bit easier because I'm not like a basketball player who's going to stand out because of his height.

Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.

All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.

When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

Sex is like washing your face - just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it.

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.

I like to write with people I have a relationship with; otherwise it's kind of scary, and you hold back because you don't want to pour your guts out to someone you never met.

I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.

I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.

Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.