No Reason Quotes - Page 5

• Some things just strike me as funny. The way things play out just makes me laugh sometimes. It drives my wife crazy sometimes because I'll just be laughing for no reason.

  W. Kamau Bell

  Crazy, Play, Laughing

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• Later, I would realize that the position of most black students in predominantly white colleges was already too tenuous, our identities too scrambled, to admit to ourselves that our black pride remained incomplete. And to admit our doubt and confusion to whites, to open up our psyches to general examination by those who had caused so much of the damage in the first place, seemed ludicrous, itself an expression of self-hatred - for there seemed no reason to expect that whites would look at our private struggles as a mirror into their own souls, rather than yet more evidence of black pathology.

  Barack Obama

  Struggle, Pride, Psych

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• I am going to say something I have never said before and this is the truth. I have no reason to lie to you and God knows I am telling the truth. I think all my success and fame and I have wanted it, I have wanted it because I wanted to be loved. That's all. That's the real truth.

  Michael Jackson

  Real, Lying, Thinking

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• To suppose universal laws of nature capable of being apprehended by the mind and yet having no reason for their special forms, but standing inexplicable and irrational, is hardly a justifiable position. Uniformities are precisely the sort of facts that need to be accounted for. Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason. Now the only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature, and for uniformity in general, is to suppose them results of evolution.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Law, Mind, Excellence

  "The Architecture of Theories". The Monist, Volume I, No. 2, p. 161, January 1891.

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• Though you have sinned much, that is no reason why you should despair, but only why you should love much, having so much forgiven.

  George Whitefield

  Despair, Reason Why, Should

  George Whitefield (1832). “Sermons”, p.537

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• The first victims of poseur environmentalism will always be developing countries. In order for you to put biofuel in your Prius and feel good about yourself for no reason, real actual people in faraway places have to starve to death.

  Mark Steyn

  Country, Real, Order

  "The Biofuels Debacle". www.nysun.com. April 28, 2008.

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• I feel I'm better now than I ever have been. You learn so much as you're doing it. I'm watching tapes and I'll see things that get me annoyed and where I know I can improve. I understand better letting the crowd play more. I've always said it was important for me who I was working with, because I like to kid around a lot. But I've also learned to use my partner better. I'm feeling good. There's no reason to stop.

  Marv Albert

  Kids, Play, Annoyed

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• There is no reason why capitalists and entrepreneurs should be ashamed of earning profits.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Entrepreneur, Earning, Reason Why

  Ludwig Von Mises (1974). “Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses”

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• Republicans favor tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, but these had no stimulative effect during the George W. Bush administration, and there is no reason to believe that more of them will have any today. As for the idea that cutting regulations will lead to significant job growth, it's just nonsense. It's just made up.

  Bruce Bartlett

  Jobs, Believe, Cutting

  "Studies challenge wisdom of GOP candidates' plans". www.washingtonpost.com. October 30, 2011.

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• Don't confuse simple, reasonable honesty with radical silliness. There is no reason to try to articulate blurry feelings or over-explain every detail. The point is to be honest instead of internalizing, not to try to extract juicy confessionals out of everyday life.

  Ann Burton

  Honesty, Simple, Feelings

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• Listen for silence in noisy places; feel at peace in the midst of disturbance; awaken joy when there is no reason.

  Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

  Silence, Joy, Reason

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• We are an intelligent species caught in an historical process. No generation which proceeded us knew what was going on, and there is no reason to assume that we know what's going on or that the generation which follows us will know what's going on. And what kind of trip is it anyway to insist on knowing what's going on?

  Terence McKenna

  Intelligent, Knowing, Historical

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• Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men and women, parents and children, people and animals, human institutions and the land all were in dynamic balance and not in any primitive sense at all. Language was fully developed, poetry may have been at its climax, dance, magic, poetics, altruism, philosophy. There's no reason to think that these things were not practiced as adroitly as we practice them today and it was under the boundary dissolving influence of psilocybin.

  Terence McKenna

  Children, Philosophy, Men

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• The 'hard swallow' built into science is this business about the Big Bang. ... This is the notion that the universe, for no reason, sprang from nothing in a single instant. ... Notice that this is the limit test for credulity. . . . It's the limit case for likelihood.

  Terence McKenna

  Limits, Bangs, Tests

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• True, this world of ours is full of hatred and disbelief, but that is no reason why we should not love and why we should not believe. We must love and believe in order to empty the hatred-sea.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Believe, Order, Sea

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• Smile, my friends, my soulful friends, smile. Let us smile. True, this world of ours is full of suffering and excruciating pangs, but that is no reason why we should not smile.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Suffering, World, Reason Why

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• I have no reason as a director to have films go up in versions that I don't like. My only experience of film after ten years is honestly that if a picture doesn't get second-guessed you're looking at four Oscars, and if a picture does get second-guessed, you're not. I've got an advanced degree in that lesson.

  William Monahan

  Years, Directors, Degrees

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not really a fan of people who think they're better than others. There's no reason to act that way. I couldn't even stand to yell at someone if they bumped right into me.

  Jackie Evancho

  Thinking, People, Fans

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• Things don't happen for no reason.

  Kristen Stewart

  Reason, Happens

  "Fictional character: Ulysses Everett McGill". "O Brother, Where Art Thou?", www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• I see no reason why I should be consciously wrong today because I was unconsciously wrong yesterday.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Yesterday, Today, Reason Why

  "Massachusetts v. United States, 333 U.S. 611, 639-40". Ddissenting opinion, 1948.

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• When I meet a person that tells me they stopped hooping for no reason, I thank them for opening my door and making it easier.

  Behdad Sami

  Doors, Reason, Easier

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• Here's what happens in a play. You get involved in a situation where something is unbalanced. If nothing's unbalanced, there's no reason to have a play. If Hamlet comes home from school, and his dad's not dead and asks him if he's had a good time, it's boring. But if something's unbalanced, it must be returned to order.

  David Mamet

  Dad, Home, School

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• All of modern physics is governed by that magnificent and thoroughly confusing discipline called quantum mechanics ... It has survived all tests and there is no reason to believe that there is any flaw in it. We all know how to use it and how to apply it to problems; and so we have learned to live with the fact that nobody can understand it.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Believe, Discipline, Confusing

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• If a subject has a delicate surface to it, you do not want to go charging in there. You need to establish some kind of presence and understanding. I will say, Try to forget I'm here. I won't ask you to pose, I won't ask you to do anything. It's important that I just be allowed to be around, to be present. Photographing people requires a willingness to be rejected. So, I think the best approach is to be honest and direct. Very often, I tell them, You don't know me. There's no reason why you should trust me... the only thing I can promise is that I'll try to do the most honest work I can.

  William Albert Allard

  Thinking, People, Understanding

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• I have a lot of pot tendencies. I'm always late, I laugh for no reason, I watch Jeopardy! with the sound off and make up my own questions.

  Dave Attell

  Laughing, Sound, Watches

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