Top 100 Because I Do Quotes
#1. When I do my vocal warm-ups everyone calls me the dolphin because I do stupid siren noises.
Ella Henderson
#2. I am like the perfect horror movie viewer because I do not get scared very easily.
Tania Raymonde
#3. I don't think I'm better than other people, I think I'm different from other people, because I do different things.
Michael Jackson
#4. Next thing Driggs knew, Lex was rummaging around in the closet. 'Are you looking for your sanity?' he called after her. 'Because I do believe it showed itself out a while ago.
Gina Damico
#5. Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!
Langston Hughes
#6. I've dubbed myself as an amateur, not because I work in different field, but because I do what I do for love.
Billy Childish
#7. I like people that enjoy life, because I do the same.
Lil' Wayne
#8. According to Cecilia, Valdivia's star rose when he met me and began to decline when he left me behind, a frightening theory because I do not want the glory for his successes or the guilt for his failures. Each of us is master of his or her own destiny.
Isabel Allende
#9. For the most part, it is really nice when people come up to me, because I do think that people who are awkward relate to me, and that's really nice. It's generally good.
Rashida Jones
#10. I suppose because I do and can work in the theatre, I don't see work as closing down as an older woman.
Lindsay Duncan
#11. For me it's just so exciting to have a daughter because I do think she will have even more opportunities than I had, and I had more opportunities than certainly my grandmother had. It's the arc of history, always bending toward justice and opportunity, and she will be part of that.
Chelsea Clinton
#12. A lot of guys get slammed pretty hard. I do think there's a tendency with women performers to just sort of write them off. The "Flavor of the Month" kind of thing. Or as a novelty, because I do think women in bands are still considered a novelty, or a little confection.
Nina Gordon
#13. That's why I've never thought of retiring because I do it all the time whether on the stage or off. I found that in a precarious situation, a smile is the shortest distance between people. When one needs to reach out for sympathy or a link with people, what better way is there?
Victor Borge
#14. I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of it.
Wale
#15. Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at spinning them at a dinner table because I do go on a bit, but I love writing them, and directing is just a way of editing the story.
Mary Stuart Masterson
#16. You ask me if I love you and what you really mean is will I devour you, envelope you, obliterate life for you and worse, will I allow you to do that to me. That's why I never answer you, because I do love you, but not in the way you want, and I never will.
Rona Jaffe
#17. Every time I find myself stressed out, it's because I do things primarily driven by growth.
Tim Ferriss
#18. About 70 percent of everything is really sketched out on my keyboard beforehand, because I do want accidents to happen in the studio.
Scott Walker
#19. As far as the environment is concerned, I am becoming pessimistic because I do not see anybody stepping up and taking the long view approach. It seems like we're stuck in a tragedy of the commons where everyone is trying to contribute as little as possible to get out of this situation.
Frans De Waal
#20. I always laugh because people assume I love horror because I do a horror movie, but I'm not a huge horror fan.
Courtney Gains
#21. For me personally - because I do it myself - the scoring of a picture is fun. I edit the picture and when I've finished I go into my room and I have many many records - jazz, classical and popular music. And I have this all at my disposal. I don't have to get a composer.
Woody Allen
#22. The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.
Red Cloud
#23. I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.
Leon Krier
#24. I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you
Pablo Neruda
#25. It's almost impossible to dislike me, because I do nothing.
Jack Paar
#26. Because I do not hope to know again
The infirm glory of the positive hour
Because I do not think
Because I know I shall not know
The one veritable transitory power
T. S. Eliot
#27. Maybe because I do not like the idea of my grandmother and someone like Josef still coexisting in this world.
Jodi Picoult
#28. Success makes me happy, but it doesn't give me peace. Because I do believe that success is not enough for our cause. We are born to struggle and nothing must deceive us.
M.F. Moonzajer
#29. I do not personally agree with some of the positions that Mr. Gonzales has advocated, but that should come as no surprise, because I do not agree with many of the proposals made by the man who nominated him, President Bush.
Daniel Inouye
#30. Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?
Oliver Heaviside
#31. Just because I do a few comedy bits about gay people, that does not mean I'm out there promoting some anti-gay cause.
Sam Kinison
#32. I don't claim to be a methodologist, but I act like one only because I do methodology to protect myself from crazy methodologists.
Ward Cunningham
#33. I know this is like the worst possible time, but I really need to tell you that I love you. Okay? Because I do. And you don't have to say it back or anything, but that's how it is.
Tere Michaels
#34. I can do things at 45, not because I can do a bunch of pull-ups, it's because I do Yoga!
Tony Horton
#35. But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him.
John Green
#36. I can't eat whatever I want, definitely not. I'm always controlled because I do a lot of fitness and triathlons, not just Formula One, so I always make sure I eat the right things.
Jenson Button
#37. When I look at a beautiful painting I have tears in my eyes, but not when I look at my children. That does not mean I do not love them, because I do, with all my heart, it simply means that the meaning they produce is not sufficient to fulfill a whole life. Not mine, at any rate.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#38. I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals.
David McCullough
#39. I cannot show remorse because I do not believe I am guilty.
Lyn Nofziger
#40. Why would you think there was anything more between me and Mr. Pinter?
Because you blush when his name is mentioned. Because he follows you with his eyes. Because I do not know what to make of him, and that worries me.
Sabrina Jeffries
#41. Well, then, I must say that I do not like him at all. Though it has turned out so well for us, I do not like him at all. As it happens, there is no great harm done, because I do not think Isabella has any heart to lose. But, suppose he had made her very much in love with him?
Jane Austen
#42. Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.
Saint Augustine
#43. I think all of my songs are either based on personal experience or will be based on personal experience, because I do write a lot of songs prophetically.
Jens Lekman
#44. I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#45. The only thing I can talk about is just forgiving yourself, because I do not have everything together. And so I tell people: No, you should see my house, it's a mess.
Susan Sarandon
#46. The zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without trial and I feel guilty because I do nothing about it. I wanted to see an oyster-catcher, so I was no better than the people who caged the oyster-catcher for me to see.
Russell Hoban
#47. But of course that is because I do not respect myself. Can a man of perception respect himself at all? Come, can a man who attempts to find enjoyment in the very feeling of his own degradation possibly have a spark of respect for himself?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#48. As for the herbal cigarettes, for the most part I don't smoke as much as the guys do. I'm usually just strutting around a bit more so I don't actually have to be inhaling it. I'm lucky because I do have scenes where the cigarettes work beautifully to punctuate certain things I'm saying.
Christina Hendricks
#49. A captured pirate was brought before Alexander the Great. "How dare you molest the sea?" asked Alexander. "How dare you molest the whole world?" the pirate replied, and continued: "Because I do it with a little ship only, I am called a thief; you, doing it with a great navy, are called an emperor.
Noam Chomsky
#50. Fuck Lara, fuck Jake because I do, Alaska Young, I do love you and what else matters but that.
John Green
#51. I think I possess because I do not try to give,
Trying to give, I see that I have nothing.
Rene Daumal
#52. If other people choose to believe because I do, great. I want to show people God's love through what I do and who I am. At the same time, I don't feel I need to pass out Bibles at the concert.
Clay Aiken
#53. I try to find my deepest, often hidden feelings about what's working and what's not. This is difficult because I do lie to myself without being aware that that's what I'm doing.
Cynthia Kadohata
#54. I'm not saying this just to be self-deprecating, but I have always taken delight in playing people who are oblivious, because I do think I have giant, giant blind spots. It's a very comfortable place to be.
Ty Burrell
#55. It's because I do see sex as sacred and potentially spiritual that I believe in commercializing it and making this potentially holy experience more easily available to all.
Chester Brown
#56. My faith has cost me a lot of money. Because I do creative roles, and I guess someone could think of me as, I could play bawdy, I could play rough around the edges. And so they think, 'Oh, she'll do this. It'll be so funny.' And I'm like, 'I'm not doing that.'
Siobhan Fallon Hogan
#57. You believe I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
#58. There's many things that I am. And all of those things come together at some point. If somebody wants to limit me, you know and they'll say, 'Well, this is Walter Mosley, the mystery writer.' I don't like that. Because I do many things.
Walter Mosley
#59. It's very interesting to blur the line between eating human beings and eating animals, because I do think people should think more about what they put in their bodies, whether it is nutritionally or philosophically.
Bryan Fuller
#60. When I write, I'm sort of old-fashioned in the sense that I like to write something that I feel I could just perform alone, obviously, because I do that a lot in concert.
Sondre Lerche
#61. It is tricky because I do wear a lot of vintage on the red carpet, and usually when I'm getting ready, I'll say, 'We need to make sure that I don't look like I'm in a Scorsese film today.' Sometimes I do something a little bit more modern with my hair. You have to mix it up.
Christina Hendricks
#62. I don't find writing easy. That is because I do take great care; I rewrite a lot.
Ruth Rendell
#63. I am regarded as a usurper, as an imposter and dilettante, because I do technically come from the wrong side of the tracks in musical terms.
Rufus Wainwright
#64. Cara is not my real name, and I'm not going to tell you what it is. Only because I do live in New York and enough people already know who my parents are.
Irene Cara
#65. I'm well known because I do music at a professional level, and a certain magnitude.
Kid Cudi
#66. I want it to be so that when No. 27 is out there, they don't know what's going on because I do it all.
Brandon Jacobs
#67. And she's here. In front of me, smiling at me. Her mouth moves, and I say 'I love you too' because I do, so much more than I thought possible even yesterday.
Rebecca Timberlake
#68. In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two.
Lionel Blue
#69. There are two metaphors for Mario the person and not Mario the footballer. I think I am a man, but I don't believe I need to say it. But I could also be Peter Pan because I do things my own way and I am free. So, yes, maybe I should say that I am Peter Pan - although I am much more of a man.
Mario Balotelli
#70. If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much, but I shall stay the way I am, because I do not give a damn.
Dorothy Parker
#71. Because I do not know the names of things, I do not express them.
Thomas E. Kennedy
#72. I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.
Maya Angelou
#73. I do have a nickname with my family; I'm called Snappy, because I do get to be a bit snippy at times. They call me Snappy Bear. That's from New Hampshire. My dad's called Crazy, my mother's Happy - it's a whole thing.
Eliza Coupe
#74. Stop that, Anna scolded him. You don't need to hurt because I do.
But I do, Charles replied, more honestly than he intended.
Patricia Briggs
#75. I need to be agile because I do all my own stunts.
Luke Goss
#76. And they'll vote for me because I'm the best liar, because I do it honestly, with a certain finesse. They know that lies and truth are very close, and that something beautiful rests between.
Mark Helprin
#77. I have been going to Italy since 1980, but I always went to do work. I did not live overseas, because I do not like running around with everything I own in a paper bag.
Bill Dixon
#78. I feel about mothers the way I feel about dimples: because I do not have one myself, I notice everyone who does.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
#79. I will continue modeling until they don't want me anymore basically because I do love it very much.
Claudia Schiffer
#80. I don't want you to go. Is that what you want to hear? You want to hear that I want you? That I need you? Because I do, Olivia. I need you.
Lauren Layne
#81. It is difficult to adjust because I do not know who is adjusting; I am no longer that old person and not yet the new.
Peter Matthiessen
#82. The same law applies to me. Nobody has sued me for libel because I do not defame my enemies.
Lee Kuan Yew
#83. Because I do not accept the hand of God; I do not believe in divine intervention or predestination. I cannot believe that our paths are pre-chosen and that our lives have no will. That there is no such thing as choice.
Carrie Ryan
#84. I am shocked both that I hurt him and that my shoe hit him, because I do throw like the proverbial girl. I hurl stuff around secure in the knowledge I'll miss my target.
Syd McGinley
#85. When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him." I
John Green
#86. It's always nice to do a family movie, because I do a lot of R-rated stuff.
Craig Robinson
#87. I suppose it's a sentimental thing, but I wouldn't want to do more 'Lewis' than we did 'Morse' because I do still think of it as an offshoot.
Kevin Whately
#88. Years ago I was on television having a discussion with Billy Graham about atheism. He was saying, even if you're right and I'm wrong, and there's nothing after, I will have had a better life than you, because I do believe there was something. And I couldn't argue with that, even though I wanted to.
Woody Allen
#89. They want a race war. We must be peaceful people. They are gonna poke and poke and poke, and our government is going to stand by and let them do it. We must be - we must take the role of Martin Luther King, because I do not believe that Martin Luther King believed in, Kill all white babies.
Glenn Beck
#90. Happiness runneth after me. That is because I do not run after women. Happiness, however, is a woman.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#91. You would not have known,' Baynes said, 'because I do not in any physical way appear Jewish; I have had my nose altered, my large greasy pores made smaller, my skin chemically lightened, the shape of my skull changed. In short, physically I cannot be detected. ...
Philip K. Dick
#92. Sometimes my mistakes turn into interesting music because I do things that aren't supposed to be done.
Ziggy Marley
#93. I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone.
Abraham Lincoln
#94. I'm not saying I don't ever improvise because I do that quite a lot, especially with other people, but generally I've got an idea in my head and then I'll pursue it 'til I get there.
Thighpaulsandra
#95. I would not be President because I do not aspire to be President. But l'm sure that a woman will be President. When? I don't know. It depends. I don't think the woods are full of candidates today.
Ella T. Grasso
#96. If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#97. I have a very high tolerance for gore and blood. I am, like, the perfect horror movie viewer because I do not get scared very easily. I can really stomach anything so, as a result, I have watched a lot of really disgusting stuff that I should probably never have seen.
Tania Raymonde
#98. I don't count myself as a fashionista because I do a lot of other things. That's just a small part of my life.
Iris Apfel
#99. What we're trying to look for is a process that is not responding to political pressures, but one that is responding to economic reality, because I do believe ... that it's in the best interest of the Chinese people to allow a market-based currency.
Lindsey Graham
#100. everything i know about love
is that it hurts
and is almost always never returned
the way you want it to.
but i have hope
because i do not know everything.
AVA.
