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The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain. -- Wendy Wasserstein
The real reason for coming to Montour is my love and respect for football. -- Dick Butkus
A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. -- J. P. Morgan
The real reason why general relativity is widely accepted is because it made predictions that were borne out by experimental observations. -- Brian Greene
The real reason your pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing at you. -- Phyllis Diller
I tend to not listen to my own music when I'm not working on it. No real reason other than it's nice to get away from it. -- Trent Reznor
I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time. -- Bill Cosby
My mom is great and I make sure that we pray together before every race. She helps me put everything in perspective and remind me of the real reason I run. -- Allyson Felix
We were told that we were attacked on 9/11 because the terrorists hate our freedoms and democracy ... not for the real reason: because the Arab Muslims who attacked us hate our Middle Eastern foreign policy. -- Cindy Sheehan
Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation. -- Paul Twitchell
I think that the fact that a relationship becomes public is a bit of a bummer. Because it can distract from the real reason why you're together, which is that you just like each other. -- Chris Martin
Distance is a bad excuse for not having a good relationship with somebody. It's the determination to keep it going or let it fall by the wayside; that's the real reason that the relationships continue. -- James McAvoy
If you look on Amazon - if you do a search for personal finance, there are literally 20,000 books written on personal finance, and there's no real reason for it. I mean, personal finance is pretty simple. -- Aaron Patzer
Mr. Speaker, I am deeply concerned that many regions of this world are suffering from the effects of armed conflicts with religious aspects. I believe that the differences of faith are not the real reason for these conflicts. -- Alcee Hastings
Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart... But that is a lie: The real reason is because I'm an incurable Gambling addict. -- Hunter S. Thompson
When somebody gives up their friends and everything they do just to be with a person, they wake up miserable one day. They're denying themselves for no real reason other than they think that's the thing to do. -- Brian Austin Green
I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies. -- Peter Lynch
My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera. -- Alton Brown
I think the real reason for my improvement is because I had such a long period in the off-season just working as hard as I could on all my new dives; making sure I did lots of repetition to get them consistent. -- Tom Daley
The real reason Jews don't have more Hanukkah music is that, historically, American Jewish singer-songwriters were too busy making Christmas music. 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,' 'Silver Bells' and 'The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting)' were all written by Jews. -- Matisyahu
We felt if we didn't have new material in us and we didn't have a real reason to exist, then we probably wouldn't have done an 80's revival thing. We are very conscious about the fact that's what we are as a bunch of people. -- Andy Taylor
The real reason to oppose increasing tax rates on the wealthy is that it's a good bet they could do more to help the economy if they keep their money rather than have their earnings confiscated by the government and spent on another round of stimulus. -- Terry Savage
I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else. -- K. Eric Drexler
Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a company's existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being. -- David Packard
Women are the real reason we get up every day. I'm talking about real men. If there were no women, I would not even have to bathe, because why would I care? These are guys I'm hanging with. I wake up for a woman every day of my life to make it happen for her. -- Steve Harvey
I went through that phase where I wanted to almost be different than my brother. Just kind of argued a little louder or if there was a curfew, I always came in a little later than I was supposed to. If it was set for 12, I would come in at 12:45. I would test the limits a little. There was no real reason and I grew out of it, eventually. -- Eli Manning
The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge. -- Thomas C Foster
Something incomprehensible is not for that reason less real. -- Blaise Pascal
There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense. -- S. E. Hinton
Real optimism has reason to complain but prefers to smile. -- William Arthur Ward
The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts. -- Rita Mae Brown
The only real reason to write professionally is that you love it enough. -- Sloan Wilson
A feeling of real need is always a good enough reason to pray. -- Hannah Whitall Smith
The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend. -- Anne Frank
Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe. -- C. S. Lewis
The real reason for health claims is well established: health claims sell food products. -- Marion Nestle
There has to be a real strong reason to do something with someone for me. -- Pat Metheny
A true friend sees past your excuses to the real reason it's not your fault. -- Robert Breault
The only reason that we like complex numbers is that we don't like real numbers. -- Bernd Sturmfels
Real happiness is when you are happy for no reason at all; you are simply being. -- Deepak Chopra
There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you. -- Mark Twain
We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors. -- John Archibald Wheeler
Real friends. The kind that don't purposely hurt your feelings or stop liking you for no reason. -- Kristin Hannah
Real success means creating a life of meaning through service that fulfills your reason for being here. -- Oprah Winfrey
She had reason to doubt him; he was real good at planning but real bad at doing. -- Junot Diaz
I think the reason people connect so well with my music is because there is a real connection. -- Tristan Prettyman
The reason I started to do comics for kids, the real reason is because it worked for me. -- Francoise Mouly
The closer you get to your dream, the more your personal legend becomes your real reason for living. -- Paulo Coelho
With 'The Flash' in existence, there's no real compelling reason for us to do superpowers on 'Arrow.' -- Marc Guggenheim
When the path becomes difficult, that's no reason to give up. In fact, it means you're making real progress. -- Ralph Marston
Your goals are constantly revised according to circumstance, but your purpose, your real reason for being, that supercedes everything. -- Jim Tressel
The real reason we have faces," Margot Lassiter observes, "is to hold back what we're thinking from the world. -- Eli Gottlieb
I left Real Madrid for the same reason Di Maria did. We work hard but only others get the praise. -- Xabi Alonso
The only reason I wouldn't go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump. -- Boris Johnson
Its so real out here right now, the only reason why you see anything is cuz I got the flash on. -- DJ Khaled
On parties it's not about who you are. The real reason to which a party revolves is how good you look. -- David Lee Roth
A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love. -- Joseph Conrad
The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris. -- Xavier Niel
The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over. -- Ernest Hemingway
The studies that show the reason Washington real estate is booming and there are so many lobbyists in town, it does pay. -- Mark Shields
So take the time to think. Discover your real reason for being here and then have the courage to act on it. -- Robin S
In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of 'reason' as single sources of authority. -- Bernard Crick
Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it. -- Walter Kirn
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Faith goes beyond reason. It goes beyond what you can see. But it is as real as anything you can touch or feel. -- Henry Cloud
I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real thing. -- Conor Oberst
I feel everyone is put here for a reason. Everyone has a calling. I always thought my real calling was to help other people. -- Janet Jackson
If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons. -- Seth Godin
The real reason we haven't had peace is because of a persistent refusal of the Palestinians to recognize a Jewish state in any border. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
Comparing objects like cars, houses, clothes, and defining life according to those comparisons, instead of trying to discover the real reason for being alive. -- Paulo Coelho
[Plato] was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it-against reason-as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience... -- Erwin Schrodinger
I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds. -- Bertrand Russell
The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them. -- Thomas Merton
And it's his illusions about whatconstitutes the real world which are inhibiting him...His reality, his reason, his society ... These are what must be destroyed -- Luke Rhinehart
In real life, I'd say that your commitment-phobe/narcissist/bad boy boyfriend is a lost cause, but romance is shelved in fiction for a reason. -- Sarah MacLean
I've decided that I am totally against jewelry. So I have all fake. There's no reason to have real diamonds. People think it's real anyway. -- Liza Minnelli
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Even as you enter the fourth year after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush is still misleading and deluding you and hiding the real reason from you. -- Osama bin Laden
There's a reason why bullying takes such a strong form online. People don't have to push back as much as they would in real life. -- Bridgit Mendler
There is no real reason to fail a child," "Once children start failing, they begin to believe that they can't do anything. They give up. -- William Glasser
The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real. -- Chuck Close
Celebrity culture has gone crazy, and I think the reason is that real news is just not bearable, and it also seems impossible to change anything. -- Chris Martin
But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere. -- Garrett Hardin
We are within measurable, or imaginable, distance of a real Armageddon. Happily there seems to be no reason why we should be anything more than spectators. -- H. H. Asquith
When people give you their stated reason for doing something always assume they are giving you a reason that sounds good, but not the real reason. -- James Altucher
I think so much of art is unconscious anyway, the artist doesn't know the real reason they're doing it. They're just kind of going along with it intuitively. -- Eric Drooker
How can days and happenings and moments so good become so quickly ugly, and for no reason, for no real reason? Just - change. With nothing causing it. -- Philip K. Dick
After 9/11, we realized that all these silly culture wars, and arguing about rock lyrics... who cares? You know, we, for some reason, remembered what our real problems are. -- Frank Rich
How can days and happenings and moments so good become so quickly ugly, and for no reason, for no real reason? Just - change.With nothing causing it." -- Philip K. Dick
Things rarely happen for a single reason. Even the cleverest and most skilled manipulators recognize that their real art lies in making use of that which they cannot predict. -- Tom Clancy
The reason "other churches" don't grow: "Jim, the truth is, I couldn't have a real prayer meeting in my church. I'd be embarrassed at the smallness of the crowd..." -- Jim Cymbala
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 real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it. -- Alma Gluck
A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination. -- Ray Bradbury
They say that in the second before our death, each of us understands the real reason for our existence, and out of that moment, heaven or hell is born. -- Paulo Coelho
I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it. -- Alison Bechdel
The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does â??what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing itâ? -- Alma Gluck
There's no real reason for me to be so obsessed with trying to understand the true nature of things. You can live a perfectly happy life being utterly confused and not knowing. -- James Mercer
The primary reason in starting a business part-time is not so much to make a product great. The real reason for starting a part-time business is to make you a great businessperson. -- Robert Kiyosaki
I've talked to a lot of pretty good lawyers around the world. I'm non-extraditable. That's the real reason the US government was pissed off, even when I was initially in Hong Kong. -- Edward Snowden
It must be remembered that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind; good and evil are local expedients--or their lack--and not in any sense cosmic truths or laws. -- H. P. Lovecraft
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
I must fight with all my strength so that the little positive things that my health allows me to do might be pointed toward helping the revolution. The only real reason for living. -- Frida Kahlo
The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. ... Is this true? -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Each new development starts from something else. It does not come out of a blue sky. You make use of that which has already entered the mind.... That is the real reason for accumulating knowledge. -- Robert Crawford

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