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• I was always annoyed by too much explaining.

  Clint Eastwood

  Annoyed, Too Much

  "Eastwood and Hanks talk 'Sully,' their film about the ‘humble, smiling hero’ who landed on the Hudson River". Interview with Rebecca Keegan, www.latimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• I remember my mum explaining to me what adoption meant when I was still at primary school. 'Son,' she said to me, 'you didn't grow under my heart, you grew in it'.

  Michael Gove

  Heart, School, Son

  "Michael Gove В has 'no charisma' but insists he is the 'change candidate' and will spend ВЈ100m a week on the NHS" by Christopher Hope, Kate McCann Cristina Criddle, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 1, 2016.

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• I actually went on lectures at Harvard, Stanford, Oxford and all the business schools eight years ago, explaining what the implications were and how the platforms could be powerful in creating the narrative of your brand and mobilizing your life so that you become humanized as well. I understood that and thought that was really empowering, not only to artists, but to brands as well and in general.

  MC Hammer

  Powerful, School, Artist

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• [Barack Obama] will spend long periods of time explaining to people why he won't use it. At the end of the explanation, nobody knows why he still won't use it because the explanation is no good. And I mean, honestly we have a president that in my opinion really doesn't know what he's doing.

  Donald Trump

  Mean, Long, People

  Source: time.com

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• I often get the question from people, "well how can you sell luxury at that price?" What I'm explaining to everyone is I'm still paying the same factory cost as I paid when they were $800. I pay the same as my competitors who are in the luxury space pay, I just don't mark them up as much because I haven't put them in a wholesale channel. I don't have to put that extra margin on them.

  Tamara Mellon

  Luxury, Space, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• It struck me that Steve Jobs, known to be such a brilliant speaker, had a very difficult time explaining things when he was younger. He was describing technology that didn't exist. He had MIT engineers, and he was trying to tell them what he wanted; but there were no terms for what he wanted yet. I think a lot of his early frustration was trying to quickly get his vision to the finish line.

  Joshua Michael Stern

  Jobs, Frustration, Technology

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• Man is the only mammal whose normal method of locomotion is to walk on two legs. A pattern of mammal behavior that emerges only once in the whole history of life on earth takes a great deal of explaining.

  Elaine Morgan

  Men, Two, Mammals

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• When it comes to social issues, Republicans dont just need to be more empathetic. They also need to be more emphatic in explaining to voters what they believe, and why.

  Gary Bauer

  Believe, Issues, Needs

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• In politics, when you`re explaining, you`re losing.

  Jim Moore

  Losing

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• Here we have perhaps in Mike Pence someone uniquely capable of explaining [Donald] Trump and being Trump and explaining for people who Trump is and what he is. And defending against whatever predictable insults and assaults on Trump that [Tim] Kaine comes up with.

  Donald Trump

  People, Insult, Assault

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Writing about why you write is a funny business, like scratching what doesn't itch. Impulses are mysterious, and explaining them must be done with mirrors, like certain cunning slight-of-hand routines.

  Patricia Hampl

  Writing, Mirrors, Hands

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• We have never recognized that Iran lives in a dangerous neighborhood. And it's not surprising that they want some protection. We have not been forthcoming about explaining a security relationship for the region, in which Iran can feel secure and thus maybe willing to do something.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Iran, Want, Protection

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• There are doubtless all kinds of ways of explaining why people want security, but I do not think we can start with the psychological explanations. Even psychological states like fear or desire for safety are conditioned by social and political forms of intimidation and scare-mongering that intensify those emotions, and even work to persuade people that nothing less than their survival is at stake.

  Judith Butler

  Thinking, Safety, People

  Interview With Cihan Aksan, Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• The idea of explaining why free trade is good, why immigration is good, why the world is so connected, that we need to think in terms of humanity and being generous to each other, you know, that's proving to be a challenge.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Ideas, Challenges

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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• I reached out to [Brett Favre] early on; sent him some of my books and a letter. Then I had two or three arranged times with him, and was blown off. Then I sent him another letter, and he sent me a text, explaining that he didn't wish to talk. I'm not mad - it's his right, obviously. Plus, his family members were amazingly open and cool.

  Jeff Pearlman

  Book, Two, Mad

  Source: lombardiave.com

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• Without explaining why, and, most of all, without naming other authors or books, I can only say my novels are influenced by love and death.

  Alice McDermott

  Book, Love And Death, Novel

  Source: www.salon.com

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• [Miranda Hentoff] was teaching once at Lincoln Center, and the hall was full of other professionals - musicians, professors, teachers. And she was explaining how [Béla] Bartok composed his second piano concerto. And she explained how the music was interwoven with the rhythms and what he had in his mind. And I was just stunned. This is a kid who used to work - on a piano with a cracked keyboard.

  Nat Hentoff

  Teacher, Teaching, Kids

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• You have to convince the adults that if a child is to learn his culture, he or she will have to see his mother and father reading about it, and explaining it to him. Then it gets a legitimacy it otherwise would never have. Until then, his learning is limited.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Mother, Children, Father

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Driven, Found

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.396

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• Friendship is the unspeakable joy and blessing that result to two or more individuals who from constitution sympathize. Such natures are liable to no mistakes, but will know each other through thick and thin. Between two by nature alike and fitted to sympathize, there is no veil, and there can be no obstacle. Who are the estranged? Two friends explaining.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Mistake, Blessing

  Henry David Thoreau (1973). “Winter: From the Journal of Henry David Thoreau”

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• I think that metaphor really is a key to explaining thought and language. The human mind comes equipped with an ability to penetrate the cladding of sensory appearance and discern the abstract construction underneath - not always on demand, and not infallibly, but often enough and insightfully enough to shape the human condition. Our powers of analogy allow us to apply ancient neural structures to newfound subject matter, to discover hidden laws and systems in nature, and not least, to amplify the expressive power of language itself.

  Steven Pinker

  Thinking, Law, Keys

  Steven Pinker (2007). “The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature”, p.282, Penguin

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• The idea of tiny changes cumulated over many steps is an immensely powerful idea, capable of explaining an enormous range of things that would be otherwise inexplicable.

  Richard Dawkins

  Powerful, Ideas, Tiny

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.95, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When your child is very young, you must protect him from doing harm to himself and others, then later by precept, explaining to him what is going to be for his eventual happiness.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Children, Harm, Young

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Kings, Queens, Book

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• It's hard to explaining exactly what happened, but I felt in that moment that the divine, however we may choose to define such a thing, surely dwells as much in the concrete and taxi cabs as it does in the rivers, lakes, and mountains. Grace, I realized, is neither time nor place dependent. All we need is the right soundtrack.

  Josh Radnor

  Taxi Cabs, Rivers, Lakes

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