#reason

People said that way back in the early days I was probably one of the first rappers; the reason is that I couldn't sing, so I had to talk! Lou Reed was probably the one who started it all. ↗

— Alan Vega

#days #early #first #had #i

I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#changing #clubs #fading #forgotten #i

Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes - that's what it is, as an actor. ↗

— Viola Davis

#behind #i #i can #job #just

The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered. ↗

— Peter Davison

#poems #reason #remembered #will #writes

I'm the worst rider. I'm a terrible rider. Me and horses are not a good mix. For some reason, people are always trying to get me on a horse in a movie. ↗

— Dana Delany

#get #good #horse #horses #i

I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#book #communication #hard #i #information

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#broadest #convincing #dinosaurs #eventually #explanations

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#century #made #need #reason #terrifying

As a matter of fact they'd blacken us down. I guess there's a reason that according to what the Caucasian wanted us to look like. He wanted us to look-if we were Black, then he had his idea of what we look like. ↗

— Billy Eckstine

#black #caucasian #down #fact #guess

The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#american express #bill #commercial #express #i