#reason

America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that "treason" is morally worse than murder or rape. ↗

— William Blum

#citizenry #convinced #many #morally #murder

I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#i #i tried #like #reasonable #tried

Mr. Speaker, in the years since we enacted our attack against Iraq, the threat from Iran has only grown more difficult, and our capacity to meet that threat actually has diminished. It is one of the reasons many of us opposed that action against Iraq. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

#actually #against #attack #capacity #difficult

As we get older, we tend to become more risk averse because we tend to find reasons why things won't work. When you are a kid, you think everything is possible, and I think with creativity it is so important to keep that naivety. ↗

— Heston Blumenthal

#because #become #creativity #everything #find

It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#bad #based #because #disagree #good

Personally, I'm an advocate for short engagements. Long sometimes means there is a reason for it. Two years engaged and no wedding... I'd be upset. ↗

— Emily Blunt

#advocate #engaged #engagements #i #long

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary. ↗

— Ronald Blythe

#because #extraordinary #huge #in the past #multitude

This idea was also brought out very clearly by Wallace, who emphasized that apparently reasonable activities of man might very well have developed without an actual application of reasoning. ↗

— Franz Boas

#actual #also #apparently #application #brought

I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular. We're doing it because in our judgment these stories are important to do, and at this length and this much depth. ↗

— Bob Edwards

#depth #doing #i #i think #important

From what I've been able to determine, many of our big stars are addicted to tobacco. They want to smoke in movies for the same reason I smoked as I wrote, which is that they think their performance is going to be better. ↗

— Joe Eszterhas

#addicted #been #better #big #determine