Top 100 Because You Quotes
#1. The minute you make a record because you think somebody's going to play it on the radio is the minute you ought to quit.
Chris Thile
#2. Working on a novel is very solitary and I get to be the boss. I'm the dictator, so I win every battle. So, in that sense, novels are easier because you don't have to answer to anyone. And then, you go into something like film and there are more cooks in the kitchen, so to speak.
Nicholas Sparks
#3. I've had a pretty good lesson in human nature. It's more important to try to surround yourself with people who can give you a little happiness, because you only pass through this life once, Jack. You don't come back for an encore.
Elvis Presley
#4. Take the first chance that you get, because you may never get another one.
Lil' Wayne
#5. We learned that a product doesn't sell just because you're trying to do good in the world. You still have to have a healthy distribution, a good marketing strategy, and price the product properly.
Ben Cohen
#6. You don't discourage children from reading because you feel they are reading the wrong thing. Fiction you do not like is the gateway drug to other books you may prefer them to read. And not everyone has the same taste as you.
Neil Gaiman
#7. It's true that you might be socially isolated because you're reading in the library, at home and so on, but you're intensely alive. In fact you're much more alive than these folk walking the streets of New York in crowds, with no intellectual interrogation and questioning going at all.
Cornel West
#8. The biographies are very enlightening because you realise, Oh my God, all these people I've admired - and tried to emulate even - when I was younger died tragically from substance abuse.
Eva Mendes
#9. Marco Rubio, as an example, he's got no money, zero.I think that's fine, that's OK, maybe it's good politically to say you owe money because you overborrowed on your credit cards. He's got nothing. I mean, he's got nothing.
Donald Trump
#10. Reminding her that just because you lose a few battles doesn't mean you'll lose the whole war.
J.M. Darhower
#11. Just because you have beautiful eyes doesn't mean you're deep: a love story. When
Melissa Broder
#12. Exercise must become a regular part of your day or personal effectiveness system. Do not wait to start exercising because you want to lose weight or because the doctor has given you some scary update on your health. Exercise to keep fit and stay healthy. It's not too late to start now.
Archibald Marwizi
#13. Comedy is probably a lot harder for me. Maybe it's because I've been doing drama for so long or maybe it's because ... you don't want to search for a laugh; you can't try to be funny, you just have to naturally be funny or be in a situation that's funny.
Nina Dobrev
#14. If I do a scene with an actor who doesn't have much experience, I say, 'I tell you what we're going to do: You just listen to me, and then you respond. We don't have to do any acting.' And that's good advice because you shouldn't see the acting.
Jon Voight
#15. Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.
Jimmy Durante
#16. I personally think if something's not a challenge there's no point doing it because you're not gonna learn much.
Cillian Murphy
#17. I don't agree with the whole 'my mother's my friend' approach, because you're their mum and there has to be a difference between the generations.
Jane Asher
#18. I DID my life - one thing to do after another, always something else to do. Because you don't need a heart to DO, but you do need one to live.
Patti Callahan Henry
#19. I think number one is what my mom and dad preached to me when I was a little kid: Just because you may have athletic ability and you may be able to play a sport doesn't make you any more special than anybody else. Doesn't mean God loves you more than anybody else.
Tim Tebow
#20. It may be bliss not to know a tornado is coming because you have no need to worry or take action. But while your head is in the sand your bum is in the air, the tornado is still coming.
David Icke
#21. Don't get like these assholes and fall in love with the fighting. Then you're just setting off bombs because you like the noise they make.
Hugh Howey
#22. Being an actor is such a humiliating experience because you are selling yourself to the public, your face, your personality, and that is humiliating. As you get older, it becomes more humiliating because you've got less to sell.
Katharine Hepburn
#23. Don't assume, because you are intelligent, able, and well-motivated, that you are open to communication, that you know how to listen.
Robert K. Greenleaf
#24. In a way, education by its nature favours the extrovert because you are taking kids and putting them into a big classroom, which is automatically going to be a high-stimulation environment. Probably the best way of teaching in general is one on one, but that's not something everyone can afford.
Susan Cain
#25. My fingers curl on his cheek, and all self-consciousness is gone, forgotten. "I'm not afraid of whatever you're talking about. I think you keep warning me away because you're the one who's afraid.
Lisa Renee Jones
#26. I think we all should try and eat a good diet. It's actually a
wonderful to eat a good diet, because you're eating all of these different
kinds of foods ... and they all taste good, and when you get used to it, you
feel better!
Bruce Ames
#27. It doesn't get any easier to breathe," Max told him, "but you learn to live with it, because you can't live without it.
Suzanne Brockmann
#28. In TV, you're always confused because you legitimately don't know what you're doing the next week.
Lamorne Morris
#29. When you find out there is no ultimate good and evil in which you can place your faith, the world does not fall apart at the seams. It simply means that every decision is more difficult, more critical, because you are creating the good and evil yourself and they are very real.
Anne Rice
#30. A soldier is the most-trusted profession in America. Americans have trust in you because you trust each other. No matter how difficult times are, those of us who love the Army must stick with it.
Richard A. Kidd
#31. You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
Victor Hugo
#32. I think that it is a great tragedy that a child can lose their mother, father, sister or brother, because you and I made a decision that getting loaded was more important than they are.
Pamela Barrett
#33. you know what doesn't work when people are tasering you? It's shouting 'Stop tasering me.' If they're tasering you already, they won't stop because you ask them to.
Adam Rex
#34. Just because you're bigger doesn't mean you have to be a bully."
"Just because you're a woman doesn't mean I'm going to let you get away with bullshit.
Nalini Singh
#35. [J]ust because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain the exercise of that right ...
Barack Obama
#36. Sometimes God uses people to test you. Be patient with people because you never know how God can use them to bring you your breakthrough.
Jeanette Coron
#37. Cooking at home is easier than cooking in the restaurant because you don't have to write a menu or try to please everybody.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
#38. I had endless issues with my appearance in Star Wars. Real ones - not ones you bring up so people think you're humble because you secretly find yourself adorable. What I saw in the mirror is not apparently what many teenage boys saw.
Carrie Fisher
#39. TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.
Sharon Stone
#40. I'm actually part of a number of minorities. I grew up being a horribly awkward kid. A terrible student. And now I find myself as a filmmaker, and you feel kind of alone in the world because you're separate from everyone else.
Bryan Singer
#41. If you see a gaggle of teenagers walking towards you, you tend not to make eye contact, because you know they're going to recognise you. You learn to adapt: 99.999 per cent of people aren't looking to be harmful or unpleasant; they just want something, a photograph or an autograph.
Robert Sheehan
#42. Just because you're on the Disney Channel and you always have a smile on your face, they think you're perfect, and it's obvious that nobody's life really is.
Demi Lovato
#43. I don't need anything else. I get out of bed every morning and face the world because you're in it.
Sylvia Day
#44. If you think that you are where you are just because you worked hard, it is easy to become self-righteous and make classist moral judgments about others.
Charlotte Bunch
#45. I grew up in a household where we didn't really talk about our feelings, and where the only reason you went to a doctor was because you'd accidentally cut off a limb with a chain saw.
Jodi Picoult
#46. When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.
Eartha Kitt
#47. Unfortunately, you can't vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place
Noam Chomsky
#48. Just because you're taught that something's right and everyone believes it's right, it don't make it right.
Mark Twain
#49. I think everybody's political. The act of being alive is political. Unless you choose to be a hermit, you're automatically political because you're part of a community.
Julianne Moore
#50. When I have you, sweet boy, it will be because you want me to. Not against your better judgment, not in spite of my surname, and definitely not to annoy your aunt."
Stephen went red, but his voice was defiant. "Well, what was that, then?"
Crane shrugged. "You seemed tense.
K.J. Charles
#51. Enjoy the music in your earbuds in your own head. Dancing and singing because you enjoy the tune so much you can't contain yourself doesn't amuse others in Starbucks.
Paula Heller Garland
#52. We're always supposed to be happy and positive. There's something about letting yourself slip into that vulnerable space because you can really feel things there. It helps you grow as a person. I tend to enjoy being in a vulnerable space, in a weird way.
Tristan Prettyman
#53. Comedy is like math - you can check your answer because you know you've gotten it right if you get a laugh. It just makes sense to me. I feel like because I've had to keep that tool in my box for so long, I'm ready to show it off a bit.
Jennifer Carpenter
#54. I certainly have gotten caught up in the music business at various times in my life, mostly because you want to get along with whatever record company you're dealing with. I don't want to be flaky. I don't want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.
Frank Black
#55. Just because you become a mother, doesn't mean you stop being a woman.
Nicole A. Walker
#56. I'm constantly scared. I'm constantly fearful of what's to come and people don't realize that just because you're doing something doesn't mean that you're fearless but you get up every day and you do it. It takes a lot of courage to be real.
Adrienne Bailon
#57. He broke up with me."
"Because you weren't in love with him. That's an iffy proposition, and I think he's handling with grace. A lot of teenage boys would sulk, or lurk around under your window with a boom box."
"No one has a boom box anymore. That was the eighties.
Cassandra Clare
#58. Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.
Madeleine L'Engle
#60. There are too many books. The books are terrible. And this is because you have been taught to have self-esteem.
Fran Lebowitz
#61. Craftsmanship means dwelling on a task for a long time and going deeply into it, because you want to get it right.
Matthew B. Crawford
#62. There are a lot of people that get interested in something, and they hear about it, and they read about it, and then they watch it happen, and that's why I had quite an interest in the lottery because you'd interest a lot of people, and then just a few would win a chance to do something.
Buzz Aldrin
#63. I always think it's hard for any young actor to make that transition to more grown-up roles. Because you don't want to alienate your audience who has been supportive of you for so many years, so you kind of have to tiptoe through that process.
Alexa Vega
#64. She got up , walked around the table, and gave him a lingering hug, running her fingers through the back of his hair. She'd been finding more excuses to hug him lately.
"What was that for?" Dill asked.
"Because you looked like your heart stepped on a Lego.
Jeff Zentner
#65. 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
#66. I like garage band for writing because you only have crayons and there are only five crayons in the box. Your choices are limited and I find that to be very good for me.
Erin McKeown
#67. Never dislike anything in life because you may struggle when you get it.
DK Publishing
#68. When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
C. K. Williams
#69. You can't play an emotional condition; you have an emotional condition, and because you have that condition, you try to overcome it with active doings (intentions).
Larry Moss
#70. Improvisation helps because you get what's on the page and you make it a little more palatable to your tongue. And that's the beauty of creating and being spontaneous. That's the way I love to work.
Taraji P. Henson
#71. My - I grew up in - I grew up in public housing. My dad, for most of my life, worked for the post office, which was a terrific job to get because you couldn't lose your job.
Lloyd Blankfein
#72. He said, "I've always liked the name Jane." Blue's eyes widened. "Ja - what? Oh! No, no. You can't just go around naming people other things because you don't like their real name.
Maggie Stiefvater
#73. The school reports say you don't concentrate. But you don't concentrate because you are thinking. They don't understand that. They think intelligence is all about soaking up knowledge. But true intelligence- the intelligence that really counts- is the ability to interpret facts to make them you own.
Chris Priestley
#74. I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
Aarti Sequeira
#75. When something is hard, but you do it anyway and get stronger because you did it, that's building character.
Susan Wiggs
#76. SO THIS IS HOW NOAH FELT. You wake up one morning and God has forgiven you and you walk around squinting all day because you've forgotten how sunlight feels warm and rough against your skin like a kiss on the cheek from your dad, and the whole world is brighter and cleaner than ever before,
John Green
#77. Let's pretend it is a threat, because you need to understand that the other officers aren't keeping me safe from you; they're keeping you safe from me.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#78. I love being creative. I love acting, but I also love directing because you get to have a vision for the whole and bring that vision to fruition.
Juliet Landau
#79. Because you didn't and someone did, and that has made all the difference! So either have the courage to ask her out prior, or have the decency to watch her with someone else.
Sarvesh Jain
#80. I'm star-struck when I see Paul Scholes because you never see him. On the pitch you can't catch him. Off the pitch he disappears.
Luis Figo
#81. The baseball fights, you don't ever see the squaring off like you do in hockey, and in some instances, that's where baseball fights can be potentially more dangerous because you've got guys running all over the place and people throwing punches at you that you don't even see half the time.
Tom Glavine
#82. There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them.
Richard O'Brien
#84. I would use the debt limit. I don't want to say - I want to be unpredictable, because, you know, we need unpredictability. Everything is so predictable with our country.
Donald Trump
#85. 91. Just because you're paranoid, does not mean they're not out to get you.
Kurt Cobain
#86. I just thank God that I didn't grow up with so much money or privilege because you had to create ways to make it happen.
Kim Basinger
#87. Just because you're breathing, doesn't mean you're alive.
Carew Papritz
#88. It's very painful to love someone who is wrestling with either an addiction or a mental illness because you want the best for them. And it seems so hard, and it's frustrating.
Maya Forbes
#89. Just because you don't know if other people are experiencing the same thing as you are, it doesn't mean that it's not happening. Everybody doesn't necessarily share everything. Just know that what you're going through, other people are going through it, too.
Tyra Banks
#90. Because you've put the past behind you and it doesn't bother you anymore that she
Ruth Cardello
#91. Never cry because you have mountains of problem in your hands to solve. Always smile because each problems will someday resolve.
Santosh Kalwar
#92. There's nothing I've done that I feel a lot of regret over because I stuck to my guns, even when it got uncomfortable - and it will get uncomfortable because you're going up against the wall.
Shirley Manson
#93. Wanting to win races is detrimental to courage. You tend to run too conservatively because you want to wait and sprint. If you are there to force the pace, to CREATE greatness rather than to have greatness, Courageous moves are a part of your race.
Gerry Lindgren
#94. One way of pointing to this realization is, when you think you have big problems, ask yourself, "What problem do I have at this moment?" Usually, you will find that you don't have a problem at this moment because you're sitting here and you're breathing, you're looking out the window, and it's fine.
Eckhart Tolle
#95. You know you knit too much when ... You will check out a book from the library just because you heard that one of the characters knits.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#96. You don't get your prebaby body back, ever, because you cannot go back to being a person who hasn't had a baby. Because you had a baby.
Wednesday Martin
#97. Just because you're good at something doesn't mean that's what you should be doing.
Shelly Crane
#98. Kitten, four hours of sleep while holding you is far more beneficial to me than eight hours of endless tossing and turning because you're not there. -Bones from This Side of the Grave
Jeaniene Frost
#99. The world doesn't exist because you gave it permission.
Aimee Carter
#100. You spend so much time developing a character when you do a film; so much of your work is done before you get set to shoot because you've been working on the character: the way he walks, the way he talks, what might upset him, what might make him happy.
Justin Timberlake
