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Well, I think probably the main reason people overeat is stress. -- Jenny Craig
The main reason for the armed resistance is the American military presence. -- Muqtada al Sadr
The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live. -- George Carlin
I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely. -- Ava Gardner
The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path. -- Florence Griffith Joyner
History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting. -- Sarah Vowell
To my mind, the main reason for the Depression in the United States as a whole, is the bondage of debt and the spirit of speculation among the people. -- Heber J. Grant
The main reason why we look constantly to the Gita is that, whenever we need help, we may get it from the Gita. And, indeed, we always do get it. -- Vinoba Bhave
We do foreign assistance for altruistic reasons, certainly for humanitarian reasons, of course. But the main reason we do foreign assistance is we do it in the American national interest. -- Roger Wicker
We do live in an environment of crony capitalism, and the main reason we do is that loopholes are for sale, and both parties have their hands out through those loopholes. -- Gary Johnson
I think the main reason a lot of child stars don't make it is that it's hard to see someone as cute and then all of a sudden see them as having more depth. -- Christina Ricci
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I listen to the people. That was a big reason for my life, maybe the main reason, I'm singing because I love it when people say to me, 'Thank you.' I thank them. It's a marriage. -- Julio Iglesias
That's one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there's more jealousy in Switzerland because it's so little and they don't have so many athletes. -- Martina Hingis
Why do I use the same actors in different movies? One of the things I really stress in casting is I need to find someone who is suitable for the role in the movie. That's always the main reason. -- Stephen Chow
The main reason I write the daily observations is because I want to know where I'm wrong. So lots of times if somebody points something out it helps me, and I want to have a diversified bet of uncorrelated bets. -- Ray Dalio
In the Bhagavad Gita, there is no long discussion, nothing elaborate. The main reason for this is that everything stated in the Gita is meant to be tested in the life of every man; it is intended to be verified in practice. -- Vinoba Bhave
I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer. -- Linda Sue Park
They wanted me to do Scream 2, and I hate talking about movies I turned down, because it sounds judgmental. There's nothing wrong with horror movies. I enjoy watching them. The main reason I turn a part down is if I think I won't be good. -- Casey Affleck
The wealth-income ratio in the United States has always been lower than in Europe. The main reason in the early years was that land values bulked less in the wide open spaces of North America. There was, of course, much more land, but it was very cheap. -- Robert Solow
Alan Moore does have a sheen of class. He's a smart guy, and I'm sure there was a metaphoric level, I'm not denying that, but let's face it. the main reason he was doing a super-hero comic was because he was working for a super-hero comic book company. -- Chester Brown
The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold. -- Edward Bach
It's true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I learned about this kind of simple, swift-paced style, but the main reason for the style of my first novel is that I simply did not have the time to write sustained prose. -- Haruki Murakami
I was going to shave it. It went in two parts. I got a bob first but it kept falling all over my face. Then it was off, short. The main reason it was long was because my mother cut it short when I was little and I was trying to make up for that. -- Cathy Freeman
I've really hung in there with my BlackBerry. The main reason I like it better than an iPhone is that I can type better. I saw Rachel Zoe using a white one and I was jealous. The risk, of course, is that it could look like a Lady BIC. I've just learned to own it though. -- Andy Cohen
I've had a lot of fun, and when I talk to kids in journalism schools, I say, look, I know what the journalism teachers tell you that this is a great way to perform public service and all that, but I say the main reason, if you decide what you want to do is be a reporter, the main reason you want to do it is because it's just so much fun. -- Bob Schieffer
The main reason for healing is love. -- Paracelsus
Enemy images are the main reason conflicts don't get resolved. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
The main reason women are crazy, is that men are stupid. -- George Carlin
Reason is the main resource of man in his struggle for survival. -- Ludwig von Mises
The main reason nerds are unpopular is that they have other things to think about. -- Paul G
Raisin cookies that look like chocolate chip cookies are the main reason I have trust issues. -- Woody Paige
Lack of rule of law is the main reason Pakistan could not join the ranks of progressive nations. -- Imran Khan
In the history of battles and wars, the massacres of civilians were the main reason of revolutions success. -- M.F. Moonzajer
The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach -- Bobby Knight
Troubadours travelled from town to town. They didn't really sing too good, which is the main reason they kept going. -- Art Linkletter
The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters. -- Saul Bellow
No gangster is ever happy when he's at peace. The main reason he's in the business is to eliminate his enemies. -- Lorenzo Carcaterra
I'm sure some cynical people would point to that as the main reason for doing it for a lot of people. -- Jo Brand
The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me. -- Daniel Ek
The main reason for the colossal objects is the obvious one, to expand and intensify the presence of the vessel - the object. -- Claes Oldenburg
The main advantage of the omniscient approach is that it's the easiest to handle. That's the major reason so many writers select it. -- Arthur Herzog
If there is a rotten government in a democracy, the main reason for this is that there is a rotten majority over there! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The main reason why God gave us imaginations is to allow us to have a specific power that can help us make realistic decisions. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Some people are mistaken, they think birds need feed to survive, but they don't. The main reason to feed birds is to enjoy them. -- Maggie Elizabeth Jones
The main reason I did 'Captain America' was because I wanted to get out of my own head and stop taking my work so seriously. -- Hayley Atwell
Conservative Denyers and Delayers are the main reason America lacks the consensus and the political will to take up the fight against catastrophic climate change. -- Joseph J. Romm
My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably. -- George Bernard Shaw
The main reason for people's lack of success is their willingness to give up what they want most of all, for what they want right now! -- Zig Ziglar
I'm not unaware of the fact that probably my biggest audience is lesbians, and is probably the main reason why I've attained the success that I have, -- Sharon Gless
A person cannot make another happy, but he can make him unhappy. This is the main reason why there is more unhappiness than happiness in the world. -- Thomas Szasz
The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval. -- Franz Grillparzer
Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid. -- George Carlin
I said to the president's wife, Vietnam is the main reason we are having trouble with the youth of America. It is a war without explanation or reason. -- Eartha Kitt
The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide. -- Kurt Vonnegut
The main reason I want someone to read a story of mine is so they can enjoy it and feel like they got something interesting out of it. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
I've never been on Wall Street. And I care about Wall Street for one reason and one reason only because what happens on Wall Street matters to Main Street. -- Ben Bernanke
To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That's the reason I'm still alive. -- Keith Richards
The main reason guys will never admit to having even the teeniest clue about what women really want is because if they did, they'd have to do something about it. -- Barbara Graham
Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did. -- Douglas Adams
Theoretical physicists accept the need for mathematical beauty as an act of faith... For example, the main reason why the theory of relativity is so universally accepted is its mathematical beauty. -- Paul Dirac
You see, I don't belive that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, that has been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians. -- Graham Chapman
The main reason God has given us minds is that we might seek out and find all the reasons that exist for treasuring him in all things and above all things. -- John Piper
The main reason I like UFC is not just the martial arts aspect, but it's about one person against the other person. It's about being able to test yourself with the truth. -- Donnie Yen
the real reason I had wanted to grow up, the main reason I had been willing to even consider becoming an adult, was so I could have as many pets as I wanted. -- Betsy Byars
As Vice President one of the things I spend time on is the continuity of government; that's the main reason I'm here is a back up for the President if anything happens to him. -- Dick Cheney
I am not one of the people who believe that the main reason why a chap becomes a bookmaker is because he is too scared to steal and too heavy to become a jockey. -- Noel Whitcomb
First I did animation films, when I was young, in time-lapse. And then in the '80s I went directly to video. The main reason for that was that I could control all the steps. -- Pipilotti Rist
There's a reason why the NRA's not here. They're just down the street. And since this is the main reason they exist, you'd think that they'd be prepared to have a debate with a president. -- Barack Obama
The main reason for choosing a project is not really the renown of the director that's making the project. I feel like it's the fact of an actor to constantly want to do different things. -- Song Kang-Ho
Experience is the main reason why we`re here, I think, in the world -- to gain experience. And from our experience we gain knowledge ... and if we get any knowledge, then we gain liberation. -- George Harrison
The main reason we are held hostage by the most destructive technology on earth is simple: the complete lack of international resolve to ban nuclear weapons and banish them from the arsenals of the world. -- C. G. Weeramantry
You can never judge any music by their audience. That's the main reason people in England have a prejudice against someone like Skrillex. You judge people by their music. That's always been first and foremost. -- Diplo

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