The idea that China and India will just abandon climate action is not true, because they're doing it for more reasons than we are.
At the moment of truth, there are either reasons or results.
American exceptionalism? Exceptional at what? Waging wars against innocent people for fake reasons? Exceptional at what? Being addicted to pharmaceutical drugs that have people's minds wasted? Exceptional at what? Eating more junk food and becoming the most obese nation on Earth?
I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.
When your reasons to move forward outweigh your excuses for staying put, you will move forward.
What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand well enough how human beings may struggle and murder for good material reasons - reasons connected, for instance, with their physical survival. It is much harder to grasp how they may come to do so in the name of something as apparently abstract as ideas. Yet ideas are what men and women live by, and will occasionally die for.
Obviously there's something very seductive about movies, which can be attractive in a bad way if you're doing them for the wrong reasons - for money, or for fame.
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.
Convictions do not imply reasons.
Do not need to look for reasons to hate when there is reason to love.
Sometimes there are good reasons to do bad things.
I've been fighting for nine years and in the beginning there was a lot of backlash and non-supporters of women fighters. We could never find many women fighters and when we did sometimes we were put on the card for the wrong reasons. It was frustrating. When I'd go train in gyms, it seemed like the guys at the gym were skeptical and didn't think I was as serious as they were because I was a woman, but today things are different.
I propose to put forward an apology for mathematics; and I may be told that it needs none, since there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy.
The heart has its reasons that the mind knows not?
We revolt simply because, for many reasons, # WeCantBreathe.
Strong reasons make strong actions.
I didn't die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn't survive certain things. . . people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst. . . for many reasons, I shouldn't be here.
There's so much joy in doing comedy work, and that's one of the reasons I like to do it - because it's just a hilarious day at work.
At my age, I know myself. If I make a project, it's a way to help me. I don't do it for therapeutic reasons, but I know that the therapy can be a side profit.
There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they didn't.