#reason

Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

#closed #company #economic #environmental #last

I think one reason people play golf is it allows them to obsess about something other than the daily crap. It takes your mind off that. ↗

— Lewis Black

#allows #crap #daily #golf #i

The reason I do what I do is because I was influenced by Steve Martin, by Woody Allen, by Bob Newhart, by Carol Burnett, by Lucille Ball. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#ball #because #bob #burnett #carol

It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#child #crashing #into #kinds #like

One of the reasons I don't have kids is because I think people would have been very unfair to them. Think of it. You're still asking me questions about The Exorcist. ↗

— Linda Blair

#asking #because #been #exorcist #i

It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home. ↗

— Mary Kay Blakely

#deliver #every #every time #expand #god

We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#came #evil #genocide #history #how

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#cannot #deeply #enough #enough people #familiar

This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate. ↗

— Thomas Dekker

#hate #kings #love #may #old

Brenda did some little vocal arrangements for us and she got to sing as well. So, we're happy to be able to work together and that's another reason why we look forward to doing more of these. ↗

— Rick Derringer

#another #arrangements #brenda #did #doing