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Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.
Do I want a character who just has the best motives and the best intentions, zero flaws, and is doing things for the right reasons? No!
I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell.
We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human.
Repetition for no reason is a sign of carelessness or pretentiousness, but there are plenty of good reasons to repeat words and phrases.
My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons.
When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it.
A lot of people said I left Nottingham Forest for the wrong reasons, but that wasn't true. I wanted to play for a top team like Chelsea.
Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.
My definition of sobriety is to be in full control and not feel drunk, but it's not abstaining for religious reasons or any other reason.
So many people around me would say they cared for the wrong reasons. A lot of people were pulling from me, taking from me and not giving.
Don't shift because fashion has shifted. Don't move from the original ethic you had, the original reasons. They're part and parcel of you.
But if you love animals for all the right reasons- and that's just love and affection- then you're going to go after animals who need you.
One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility.
Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual exile.
I'm probably a Libertarian, if I had to put myself in any category. But you don't come out and talk about these things, for obvious reasons.
One of the main reasons I came back to Mexico is because I've found freedom and democracy here, something I never found in the United States.
I still think people do have racial hang-ups, but I think one of the reasons I can joke about it is people are shedding those racial hatreds.
One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.
This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons.
When you follow your heart, you're never supposed to do things because of what you think people might say. You do it for the opposite reasons.
People say, 'Surely there's the right reasons for going to war?' And my perspective is, 'Surely there's a better way of asking that question?'
The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.
If the Eagles were to get back together, it would have to be for the right reasons. I think it would look awful if it were just for the money.
And so border security is not simply preventing people from getting in, but very often preventing somebody from leaving for the wrong reasons.
Among the most common reasons why people come to an emergency room are bouts of heart failure or pneumonia. Sometimes they have a touch of both.
Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate.
My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.
Once you accept and understand yourself, you do things for the right reasons, not the wrong ones, rather than being fuelled by your insecurities.
I say at this point, for different reasons, Bush and Hussein are both very threatening to world peace and to deny that is to be incredibly naive.
Often, if someone wants to date me because they know I'm trans, it's for specifically sexual reasons, and it doesn't ever lead to a relationship.
People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
Precise historical reasons are difficult to pinpoint, but red hair, it seems, bestows a sense of otherness. Red is the colour of blood and danger.
Beginning with the stimulus, Obama has repeatedly inserted the government into the free market for political reasons - and with disastrous results.
If someone feels that they're abandoned, there are always complicated feelings. There are always reasons for why people do the things that they do.
The story of Jackie Robinson is also the story of Branch Rickey. He had many reasons for doing what he did, but he stood up against his own people.
One of the reasons why Canadians are generally positively inclined towards immigration is we've seen over decades, over generations, that it works.
Its only when you are a great actor and are recognised for your good work that you become famous. Unless you are in the news for the wrong reasons!
There are one-hundred fifty-four games in a season and you can find one-hundred fifty-four reasons why your team should have won every one of them.
I'm a reader for lots of reasons. On the whole, I tend to hang out with readers, and I'm scared they wouldn't want to hang out with me if I stopped.
The thing I really look for in this business is there are guys who are into football and there are guys who are in the profession for other reasons.
One of the most important reasons for North Korea continuing its nuclear ambitions is to consolidate the power to stay within the Kim Jong Il family.
Once you're a winner, you can give all sorts of reasons why you're a winner. Of course, you could all those same reasons to explain why a show fails.
The U.S. relationship with the Palestinians is a limited, one-way street for a number of reasons, one prominently being a lack of common moral values.
My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?
One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn't keep on, you'll find 'em. The obstacles are all there; there are a million of 'em.