Because Quotes

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head.

Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.

If your neighbors think you're a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a redneck.

We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.

I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.

I personally think skateboarding is harder because it has so many moving parts. With snowboarding, your feet are strapped to your board.

Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you.

I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.

I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

I love where I'm from. I don't live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It's what's inside, it's not what's outside that determines the culture and the feeling.

It's interesting that I had such a close relationship with my grandfather. Because your parents always judge you: they say, 'You shouldn't do this, you shouldn't do that.' But with your grandparents you have a feeling that you can say anything or you can do anything, and they will support you. That's why you have this kind of connection.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.

If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.

I never say never, because I don't want to be one of those guys.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look.

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.