I try to find stories that I would think that everyone would find interesting, and just a good entertaining story, and then… — Norman Jewison Copy Share Image
It's not going to be my political raison d'etre, I think it would be presumptuous to take a leadership role. But I… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
“Each alter personality had a common goal and raison d'etre, namely my survival. They didn't all realize that though, and so were… — Carolyn Bramhall Copy Share Image
I want to get to a point where we can have guys like me in a film and I'm just there. Where… — Adam Pearson Copy Share Image
The less subsidy we have, the more the 'producers' take over, and the 'bottom line' becomes the raison d'etre. That's quite an… — Marianne Elliott Copy Share Image
“We are women. We talk. We all do. I love to talk. It's my reason for being. No. It's my raison d'etre.… — Suzy Valtsioti Copy Share Image
Securing, not prohibiting, the orderly transfer of wealth from A to B, based on wealth differentials, is the raison d'être of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life has no meaning. It doesn't need a meaning. A meaning is an arbitrary thought formulation that we affix to it because… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think in a way the great irony or paradox about America is that it makes it so hard for the sensitive… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
“If you read this, read it for that reason that Lestat is talking again, that he is frightened, that he is searching… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“The tragic irony of modern anti-fascism is that the more successful it is, the more its raison d'etre is called into question.… — Mark Bray Copy Share Image
“Although the art world reveres the unconventional, it is rife with conformity. Artists make work that "looks like art" and behave in… — Sarah Thornton Copy Share Image
The central fact for me is, I think, that the [role of the] intellectual... cannot be played without a sense of being… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
“The eternal raison d'etre of America is in its being the "sweet land of liberty". Should a land so dreamed into existence,… — Frank Norris Copy Share Image
What was once a cottage industry dedicated to the discovery and development of new voices and works has become instead the raison… — Caridad Svich Copy Share Image
You have to look at the fundamental raison d'être of the business - what is it doing? What's the nature of the… — Kevin Kinsella Copy Share Image
“For it is clear immediately: human life as such is a defeat. All we can do in the face of that ineluctable… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d'être to the imperfection of man and can attain their… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The "social contract," in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“To Mr. Blot, who went through life an unconscious example of the raison d'être of the British Empire, a shipwreck was merely… — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
“I just don't understand why some people think that every book you read ought to be "improving". No one goes to the… — Catherine Jones Copy Share Image
“That was what made Vincent so perfect. His raison d'être. He was feminine to the point of being non-threatening, and masculine enough… — Nicole Castle Copy Share Image
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