Because Quotes

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

I don't think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they're fans because I'm a lunatic or a weirdo. The hit songs came out of my idiosyncratic personality, not the other way around.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out - because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

The best situation is being a single parent. The best part about is that you get time off, too, because the kids are with their mom, so it's the best of both worlds. There's a lot to be said for it.

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.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we're scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don't have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.