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Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans. -- Neil Gaiman
Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl. -- Alison Bechdel
I do actually like Los Angeles. Partly because I was told I wouldn't. -- Hugh Laurie
[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men. -- Margaret Mead
Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person. -- Joan Jett
How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity. -- Robert Gottlieb
Partly, the Russian system succeeds because, in contrast to the Western industrial economies, it makes full use of its manpower. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained. -- David Frum
Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored. -- Renee Fleming
Partly I was honing my self-consciousness into a torture device, sharp and efficient enough to last me the rest of my life. -- Lucy Grealy
Yes, I think I have the best swing on the Tour. Why have scores comedown in the last ten years? Partly because they are imitating me. -- Lee Trevino
There's definitely something broken in the music industry clearly. Partly from downloading and partly the obstacles for discovery and listener choice and artist distribution are gone. -- Doug Walters
Partly because his life ended before the age of 50, Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers, and he managed, with amazing consistency, to alienate most of them. -- Ron Chernow
Why do we like being Irish? Partly because It gives us a hold on the sentimental English As members of a world that never was, Baptized with fairy water -- Louis MacNeice
I definitely care about how the concept of New York punk was constructed, and why it mattered. But I wasn't gonna do that. Partly because I'm not a great journalist. -- Jonathan Lethem
Partly it was a sort of hymn to the wisdom and majesty of Big Brother, but still more it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise. -- George Orwell
Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy. -- Val Kilmer
I laughed. Partly at the joke, partly at how Afghan humor never changed. Wars were waged, the Internet was invented, and a robot had rolled on the surface of Mars, and in Afghanistan we were still telling Mullah Nasruddin jokes. -- Khaled Hosseini
I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase. For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper. -- John Berger
I don't listen to a huge amount of music generally. Partly because you've sat in a studio for 10 hours and then when you come home you just want to read a book, and listen to the sound of your central heating system. -- Herbert
Once 'Walk Two Moons' received the Newbery Medal, I decided to write full-time. Partly because there seemed to be an audience out there who wanted to read what I wanted to write, and partly because I could now support myself financially through writing. -- Sharon Creech
In certain ways, I think the work in the Evangelical community has been the most interesting and the most promising. Partly because Evangelical congregations may be harder to convince about issues but, on the other hand, are more likely to do something about it. -- Bill McKibben
Partly why I love to operate is that I love to watch an actor within a shot. When you watch a shot, and you know that everything's come together, I feel I'm the first person watching it. I always get pleasure out of that. -- Roger Deakins
Well, we're grasping for two things at once. Partly for communion with others - that's the deepest instinct in us. And partly, we're seeking security. By constant communion with others we hope we shall be able to accept the horrible fact of our total solitude. -- Ingmar Bergman
I Don't Think There's A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I'm Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain, Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You're Alive Is By How Much Pain You're Experiencing, Or How Little... -- Jerry Garcia
I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can't let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn't even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something. -- Dave Grohl
On Fantastic Mr. Fox, I got used to working with animated storyboards as a way of planning for the shoot. We did a lot of sequences that way with this movie. Partly as a result of that, I decided to build more sets in order to do certain shots. -- Wes Anderson
I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics. -- James Hillman
Half of us are partly German! Half our language and culture, generally, in Anglo-Saxon terms, is German. -- Martin Freeman
Nobody would say, 'I'm voting for this guy because he's got the stronger chin,' but that, in fact, is partly what happens. -- Daniel Kahneman
I first had the idea of writing a popular book about the universe in 1982. My intention was partly to earn money to pay my daughter's school fees. -- Stephen Hawking
As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others. -- Lord Byron
Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or not, the spectator adjusts in his own mind. -- Paul Rand
I don't care much for equations myself. This is partly because it is difficult for me to write them down, but mainly because I don't have an intuitive feeling for equations. -- Stephen Hawking
The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted. -- Charles Babbage
Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power. -- Mahatma Gandhi
In the past, I've visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldn't ordinarily explore. -- Pico Iyer
I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release. -- Joaquin Phoenix
You want to enjoy life, don't you? If you get your job done quickly and your job is fun, that's good isn't it? That's the purpose of life, partly. Your life is better. -- Yukihiro Matsumoto
I'm an early bird, partly because I like to have some quiet time and partly because by 9am emails begin arriving, the phone starts ringing and I have dragons to kill of one sort or another. -- Andrew Motion
I definitely spend the most money on shoes, partly because vintage footwear can be a little funky - in a bad way. I like to keep things pretty simple up top and then go weird with the shoes. -- Chloe Sevigny
I'm riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, 'megaramp' skateboarding and half-pipe snowboarding. I'm fascinated partly because the sports are so exhilaratingly acrobatic. But I'm also captivated by the fear that a terrible accident might happen at any moment. And accidents do happen. -- Lucy Walker
Women have made tons of progress. But we still have a small percentage of the top jobs in any industry, in any nation in the world. I think that's partly because from a very young age, we encourage our boys to lead and we call our girls bossy. -- Sheryl Sandberg
I'm certainly not a person who spends their every waking moment soaking themselves in signs and signals of the sort that cult studies people study; and it's partly, I suppose, because some of those signs and signals aren't worth bothering about. You have to be selective about these things. -- Peter York
If I'm on a train, with headphones, MP3s are great. At home, I prefer CD or vinyl, partly because they sound a little better in a quiet room and partly because they're finite in length and separate things, unlike the endless days and days of music stored on my laptop. -- Jonny Greenwood
People have had certain assumptions in the past about Conservative governments, partly because of some of the things that happened in the 1980s, and partly because of the tone of some of the debate in the 1980s that appeared to say public spending on the arts was something you might want to progressively reduce. -- Jeremy Hunt
I'm sure I would have been considered a more significant artist if I was a singer-songwriter. It's just not the way I roll. I love being a curator and a musicologist. People write me letters and thank me for turning them on to Fred McDowell and Sippie Wallace, and that's partly my job this time around. -- Bonnie Raitt
The most important factors for a long life, I think, are partly in the genes; number two is lifestyle, which includes healthy diet and regular exercise. I walk, run and swim every day. However, I think too much exercise is also unhealthy because of over-stress; sometimes people who exercise too many hours per day die early. -- John Gokongwei
Perfect' is about a set-up that looks perfect from the outside - beautiful country house, beautiful wife and mother, everything where it should be - and the deep fissures that, in fact, lie beneath that. 'Perfect' was partly a response to the shock of my first book, 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry,' being a success. -- Rachel Joyce
The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly 'cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field. -- Bill Gates
The message of Jesus is summed up partly in the Sermon on the Mount, and partly when he begins his ministry and quotes the passage from Isaiah: 'I have come to set free the prisoners and restore sight to the blind.' And certainly, his mission is also to bring hope. It was to heal people, to befriend the outcast. -- Dan Wakefield
Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the cause that made the ancient learned affirm it was a divine, and no human skill, since all other knowledges lie ready for any that have strength of wit; a poet no industry can make, if his own genius be not carried into it. -- Philip Sidney
I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully. -- Dave Matthews
Every neurotic is partly in the right. -- Alfred Adler
Interior decoration partly thrives on being social. -- Nicholas Haslam
I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern. -- Eric Allin Cornell
Unfortunately, satisfaction is linked partly to results -- Emma Pooley
Weather tonight: dark. Turning partly light by morning. -- George Carlin
Man partly is and wholly hopes to be. -- Robert Browning
I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless. -- Neal Shusterman
I've become 40, my audience is partly the same age. -- Jean-Claude Van Damme
Truth is in all things, even partly, in error. -- Jean-Luc Godard
MSN became a quagmire, partly because of Microsoft's hubris. -- Donald Clark
The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time. -- Marsilio Ficino
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
I can't believe we really made it, I'm partly surprised. -- Drake
Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice. -- Julian Barnes
Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism. -- Nicholson Baker
Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery. -- William Golding
Growing old is partly an inescapable process of accommodation and adjustment. -- Kathe Kollwitz
The weather today is partly angry, leading to resignation and ultimatums. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Good writing is formed partly through plan and partly through accident. -- Ken Macrorie
What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted. -- Robert Burns
I think seeing happens partly through the eyes, but not entirely. -- Wim Wenders
To partly remain a child: that is to be really mature. -- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
The desire to belong is partly a desire to lose oneself. -- Eric Hoffer
To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and I'm not religious. -- Alastair Campbell
Terrorism is partly linked to people who have no jobs in Pakistan. -- Mian Muhammad Mansha
My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach. -- Seneca the Younger
I'm convinced the Beatles are partly responsible for the fall of Communism. -- Milos Forman
People judge their capabilities partly by comparing their performances with those of others -- Albert Bandura
Becoming a woman is an act partly of nature and partly of self-invention. -- Caitlin Flanagan
In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public. -- Clay Shirky
Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself. -- Bertrand Russell
No company fails in communist China, because they're all partly owned by the government. -- Jim Bunning
The effects of outcome expectancies on performance motivation are partly governed by self-beliefs of efficacy -- Albert Bandura
There can be little doubt that many egalitarians are motivated at least partly by envy. -- Henry Hazlitt
Visionary people are visionary partly because of the very great many things they don't see. -- Berkeley Rice
It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true. -- J. D. Salinger
Sometimes it is easier to see the light when you stand partly in the darkness. -- Garth Nix
My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate. -- Alastair Campbell
School plays were invented partly to give parents and easy opportunity to demonstrate their priorities. -- Calvin Trillin
K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things. -- Bill Gates
Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life. ~ Bran -- Patricia Briggs
Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience. -- Arnold Palmer
Women were quite terrifying until I was older. I think that's partly down to confidence. -- Jimmy Carr
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs. -- Lucretius
The cat that Prim got hates me, I think partly because I tried to drown it. -- Suzanne Collins
The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway. -- Bette Davis
Curiosity being one of the forms of self-revelation, a systematically incurious person remains always partly mysterious." -- Joseph Conrad
I live my life on self-belief and I live it partly on going with the flow. -- Melanie Brown
Claims like 'Slavery is wrong' are not fully common-sensical, so they must be at least partly theoretical. -- Catherine Wilson
The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right. -- Bill Maher
I think that globalization is partly responsible for the spread of the hostile, radical forms of Islam. -- Franklin Foer
I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government. -- George McGovern
The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty. -- Gail Caldwell
A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France. -- Quentin Blake
I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath. -- Jack Steinberger
We haven't had a recession for 25 years in Australia. It's partly because of our trade with China. -- Richard Glover
A writer's mind seems to be situated partly in the solar plexus and partly in the head. -- Ethel Wilson
The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered. -- C. S. Lewis
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself. -- Henry David Thoreau
That's who we are. That's partly why we've been successful. Spread it around and run our stuff. -- Matt Hasselbeck
I have to say I do read partly for escapism. Why can't I escape and learn something? -- Christopher Bollen
Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that. -- Jean Anouilh
A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul. -- Erica Jong
Everything foreign is respected, partly because it comes from afar, partly because it is ready made and perfect. -- Baltasar Gracian
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [a predisposition to notice the beautiful, in everything.] -- Christian Nestell Bovee
A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers. -- John Calvin
I've long been against illegal aliens, partly because they distract us from an even bigger threat: real aliens. -- Stephen Colbert

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