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Sun Yang

There are indeed people with ulterior motives who don’t wish Chinese swimming well; they even don’t wish Asian swimming well. We cannot let these people’s plans succeed.

– Sun Yang

Sukarno

What America did in Vietnam and the Congo – we feel. And as a result come these demonstrations. I am not defending the act of burning USIS books. We deplore it. But we can understand the motives of the students.

– Sukarno

Steven Spielberg

Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did.

– Steven Spielberg

Sophie Hannah

For me, a big part of writing psychological thrillers is choosing crimes committed for motives which would only apply to a particular person in a particular situation; a unique, one-off motive that is born out of someone’s particular range of psychological afflictions.

– Sophie Hannah

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I don’t think anyone doubts my motives, really. I do what I do and it’s not very complicated. Of course, you might hate the music that I make, but I don’t think people feel threatened by me just getting on with what I’m up to.

– Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Siouxsie Sioux

It’s funny: now we’re starting to do interviews, we’ve just begun to understand what we’re doing, whereas before, without doing interviews, we never really thought about motives.

– Siouxsie Sioux

Sidney Hook

Before impugning an opponent’s motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.

– Sidney Hook

Sharmila Tagore

When you are doing a film for money or to help a friend out, be clear about the motives and then finish what needs to be done.

– Sharmila Tagore

Shannon Purser

I feel like, especially in Hollywood, you meet people with ulterior motives, who are trying to get something from you.

– Shannon Purser

Seth Moulton

There will always be people who question your motives.

– Seth Moulton

Scott Morrison

I can understand that people who have a very different view to mine are motivated by the purest of motives. All I ask is that they might give the same benefit of the doubt to those with whom they might disagree with.

– Scott Morrison

Ruth Rendell

In judging other people’s work, particularly short stories, I have noticed how novice writers tell the readers everything about their characters in the first paragraphs, disclose their motives, reveal their recent activities and their future intentions.

– Ruth Rendell

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