#cause

You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life. ↗

— Dorothy Dunnett

#because #chess #chronicles #design #each

I wouldn't say I was bullied per se, but I did get a lot of unwanted attention because I was musical and stood out. In school you don't want to stand out; you want to blend in. ↗

— Debbie Gibson

#because #blend #bullied #did #get

Because I was in Atlanta, people didn't realize I'm one of the real forefathers in the game. ↗

— Jermaine Dupri

#because #forefathers #game #i #people

I always want to win because I never want to sit out on the sidelines outside. ↗

— Kevin Durant

#because #i #i always #never #out

I've heard a few times, in three or four years, this league is going to be yours. I don't like that. Because I think I'm established now. ↗

— Kevin Durant

#established #few #four #going #heard

I didn't miss training because it had become so painful for me. I filled the void pretty quickly as I went straight into coaching and it was great; I had to start learning all over again, and then when I went into TV I knew nothing about it so I had to start from the very beginning. ↗

— Jo Durie

#again #because #become #beginning #coaching

The decision to retire was quite an easy one for me because by that stage my knees were so badly gone. If I had been like Martina Navratilova and my body had let me I would have carried on playing a lot longer. ↗

— Jo Durie

#because #been #body #carried #decision

Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon. ↗

— Emile Durkheim

#cannot #causes #conditions #consequently #each

Of course, I'm not often the top dog, but sometimes it's better not to be top dog, because you last longer. If a movie or play flops, you always blame the lead. They say, 'He couldn't carry it.' They always blame him. But they rarely blame the second or third banana. ↗

— Charles Durning

#banana #because #better #blame #carry

For someone in my position, there's opportunities to be anything you want to be, even if you shouldn't be eligible, and I think that's left a bad taste in a lots of financers' and studios' mouths. Just cause someone's popular at one thing, letting them do the other isn't always the right thing. ↗

— Fred Durst

#anything #bad #bad taste #cause #eligible