"The only reason I'm acting in films I direct is to get the money to make them, quite frankly, it's not what I'm interested in doing."
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"A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself."
"Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors."
"The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all."
"To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true."
"Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits."
"Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it"
"Reason is intuition's servant."
"The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency was meant to serve. Their common characteristic is obviously their sordid avarice."
"...if men are to be ruled, then the enemy is reason."
"It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices."
"It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons."
"I've always been connected to football, but for some reason, there's never been a connection."
"And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be living in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street of them merely got you invited to the very best social occasions."
"Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate."
"I wonder if the reason I tend to say yes to everything is because I deeply believe that I can survive anything."
"I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason."
"The only reason to build a website is to change someone. If you can't tell me the change and you can't tell me the someone, then you're wasting your time."
"A lot of my work is with children and there's a reason for that, because they really level you."
"Everybody does what they want to do for their own specific reasons."