Gaga and Stefani are my nicknames. I guess when people meet me for the first time and call me Stefani, it bothers me. Because it's something that's reserved for only the people who are closest to me. It's not because I don't like my given name; it's that I became somebody else. I became somebody else for a reason, you know. This is part of what my message is - you can become whoever you want to be, to escape your past.
I'm loved unconditionally, for no other reason than simply because I exist.
For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.
Sometimes I'm not nice for a reason. It's a way to find out what someone's made of.
Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.
The beliefs of your country mostly become your own beliefs! Not the reason but the empty tales shape you!
Each man does seek his own interest, but, unfortunately, not according to the dictates of reason.
The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.
For some reason I have a visual intuition that allows me to design things in an interesting way, and I don't know where that came from. Because I don't have this formal training, I seem to drift in a different direction.
Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.
I should like to know for what reason idleness is so popular with many young people that it is impossible to dissuade them from it either by words or by chastisements.
Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.
People say I stole a lot of bases. I stole the bases for a reason. I crossed the plate.
This belief in God has to be based on faith which transcends reason.
The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.
When I ran, people know I have a very big business. So I mean they elected me I guess partially for that reason.
Because people are more than emotions. People have thoughts and reasons for doing things.
There is a reason it is called fossil fuel-it is an outdated method of getting power.
Blaming the imperialists nowadays is obviously absurd, as is blaming the Americans, who obviously don't have the slightest desire to control anything in the Middle East. The American desire is to get out as quickly as possible and the general view is that now that the Cold War is over and the Soviets are no longer a problem, we have no reason to stay there, let's get out. They will have to confront their own problems. Israel provides a useful scapegoat but it's a limited one.
The only reason to have a 300-foot-long boat is because they're bigger than 200-foot-long boats.