Because Quotes

I prefer ordinary girls - you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl, it doesn't mean we are dating.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

I think that you should definitely listen to what people say, because everyone says it: High school is not the real world.

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

I want to do it because I want to do it.

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

We've never been people that go around and confront people that have been financially successful and say, 'We hate you. We envy you because of how well you're doing.'

I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That's not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians.

The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did.

I'm a mirror. If you're cool with me, I'm cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don't like what you see, then you've done something. If I'm standoffish, that's because you are.

I'm always very nervous about the word 'dancer' next to my name because anyone who's really trained in dance will go, 'This guy's fudging so badly.'

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

My friends love coming over because they get fed.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code.

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

I never live in the present. I'd do interviews and people will say,'Isn't this great?' or 'Can you believe?' And I would react, like, 'No, I can't believe it because I'm not living in this moment.'

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs. For my own people, it was important to imagine him as the Great Emancipator, the Moses who led us out of slavery.

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.