It seemed that the time would come evolutionarily when humans might have acquired enough knowledge of generalized principles to permit a graduation from class-two (entropically selfish) evolution into class-one (syntropically cooperative) evolution, thereafter making all the right moves for all the right reasons.
A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
In rock 'n' roll it's really about being as vulnerable as possible and giving them what they want. But onstage it's about pausing, about internal life, it's about internal triggers - that's one of the reasons I'm really challenged to do a play.
Sometimes when things seem to be going wrong, they are going right for reasons you are yet to understand.
I'm very shy. That's probably one of the reasons I got so heavily into drugs.
A full-blooded encounter for a number of reasons, many of them illegitimate.
In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social reasons.
There are two types of people: The ones who give you 50 reasons it can't be done. . . and the ones who just do it.
The idea that we criminalize fellow human beings based on optics, based on the need to progress in politics and gain power, and for economic reasons and financial reasons, for financial gains, and we throw out humanization for criminalization.
We can always find noble reasons for what we want to do.
One of the main reasons I paint is because I think nature is so wonderful. I want to try to get my feelings of that down on canvas, if possible.
It's no secret - I love detective fiction. One of the reasons I love being in London is because I like to watch all the shows on TV. I watch them all.
Reasons never matter, once Death comes cold and bold and takes the living by the hand. You count up your dead, every one.
What I strive to do is make my characters seem like real people so that the reader experiences them as people - that's something I've been working on all of my life. I couldn't have written this novel at twenty or thirty, for technical reasons - I didn't have the technique then - but above all because I didn't have the life experiences I have now at sixty-seven.
Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.
The best advice that anyone can give you for choosing a specific career is never to accept someone else's advice. Indeed, one of the biggest reasons for choosing the career you have chosen should be that no one told you to.
I'm not the one or two take guy, but I'm not the 20, 30, 50, 70 take guy either. If I do a bunch of takes, like more than five or six, it's usually for some technical reasons.
Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.
You can't judge my choices without understanding my reasons.
People may believe correct things for the damndest and weirdest of wrong reasons.