#because

Judy Garland's father was gay. That seems to be the consensus. They left Minnesota and went to California because he got caught with some boy backstage. ↗

— Judy Davis

#because #boy #california #caught #consensus

I drank a lot when I was a teenager and I don't drink any more, because that's when I thought, you know, I'm gonna end up a car wreck. ↗

— Kristin Davis

#because #car #drank #drink #end

We have a lot of property and we take care of it mostly ourselves, so that's what I spend a lot of time doing, which I love because I'm outside. ↗

— Mary Decker

#care #doing #i #i love #lot

Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week. ↗

— David Steinberg

#being #eighty #hours #hundred #lawyer

It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#any #because #bizarre #elephants #killed

Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#effective #extremely #formal #joys #life

I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#competitive #concept #days #excellence #explicitly

It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all. ↗

— George Gissing

#because #better #better things #capacity #individuals

We have people working for us full-time because they were forced to retire at 65. I know that I never want to stop working, and I am glad that I can offer positions to others who feel the same way. ↗

— Carl Karcher

#because #feel #forced #full-time #glad

I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#always #because #been #diary #doing