#cause

The Republican National Committee hired me, and they hired me because they wanted someone who could look members straight in the eye and tell them the truth. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#committee #could #eye #hired #look

When I started in this business, everybody said the Democrats were the better communicators because they sounded like social workers, and Republicans were awful because they sounded like morticians. In some cases. they actually dressed like morticians. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#awful #because #better #business #cases

There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas. ↗

— Robert Staughton Lynd

#arms #because #other #people #round

An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing. ↗

— Paul Lynde

#because #better #better off #knowing #lot

Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics. ↗

— Paul Lynde

#because #caused #dad #funny #generalities

I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never would have done. It made me feel very old, really, because it wasn't eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original. ↗

— Adrian Lyne

#beautifully #because #done #eccentric #fabulous

For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#beyond #cause #causes #i #just

There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#because #country #culture #cut #cutting

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#any #because #concerned #forces #great

And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#been #everybody #great #great passions #happens