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• If anything, I believe that when I die, I will have to stand in front of all the children who went to bed hungry while I was on earth and read aloud a list of my eBay purchases. I shudder to think of it. Explaining to a poor child with a swollen belly why I didn't give his village fifty cents a week but spent twenty-seven dollars in a bidding war for a Mars Attacks coffee cup.

  Dana Gould

  Children, War, Coffee

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• Music has an immediate effect. If you want to go beyond that and look underneath, film is a good way of explaining.

  Stewart Copeland

  Looks, Want, Way

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• Talent is important, and some background as well. This really is not beginner's school. I want to work with people that have achieved a certain level and with whom i can easily communicate, which means you don't have to do too much explaining so you won't waste precious time. I don't do much explaining during rehersals and we are just adjusting minor details. Simply, there is no space nor time for one to learn and each of them has to do their homework on time. That means practising, transitioning from a level to level.

  Vlatko Stefanovski

  School, Mean, Space

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• Is it logical to ask how far away are we from the pope explaining that abortion can be justified, "in certain circumstances, in certain regions," and if it might be related to the evils of American capitalism and our immigration policy?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Evil, Abortion, Immigration

  "The Pope: Trump’s Not a Christian". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• As a philosopher, you define constraints for any good theory explaining what you are interested in, then you go out and search for help in other disciplines.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Discipline, Helping, Philosopher

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Diversity hasn't a thing to do with why this country is great. Diversity is not a factor in any way when defining or explaining America's greatness.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Greatness, America

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We should not lay all past mistakes on Chairman Mao. So we must be very objective in assessing him. His contributions were primary, his mistakes secondary. In China, we will inherit the many good things in Chairman Mao's thinking while at the same time explaining clearly the mistakes he made.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Mistake, Past, Thinking

  Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

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• When I watch Dan Rather explaining how America is going to be attacking, where we're going to attack, what routes we're taking, what kind of planes we're using, how to stop them, how to stop us, it is a little bit disconcerting. I've never seen this, where newscasters are telling the enemy how we're going about it, we have just found out this and that. It is ridiculous.

  Donald Trump

  America, Enemy, Watches

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue.

  Sofia Coppola

  Stories, Way, Dialogue

  Source: www.chud.com

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• I think of my job on television as explaining things.

  Rachel Maddow

  Jobs, Thinking, Television

  Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.

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• I like explaining things, and I believe that you can do very high-level explanation on basic cable news provided you are willing to work hard enough to be a good storyteller.

  Rachel Maddow

  Believe, Hard Work, News

  Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.

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• I do believe in hell. Jesus spoke more about hell than heaven - I trust him as the authority, not you, me or anybody else. If hell is not real, then Jesus was a liar and God has a lot of explaining to do on His justice and things like that.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Real, Liars

  "Rick Warren Clarifies Doctrine, Purpose Driven Life with John Piper". Interview with John Piper, www.christianpost.com. May 28, 2011.

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• If [Pope's Francis] media-generated popularity, fragile as that may turn out to be when the world discovers that the pope is really a Catholic, opens windows of possibility for explaining that divine mercy leads us to the truths God revealed to us (and inscribed into the world and into us), then his reanimation of the papacy will advance the "Church in permanent mission" for which he called in Evangelii Gaudium, which is the grand strategy document of his pontificate.

  George Weigel

  Media, Catholic, Church

  Source: eppc.org

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• What's the purpose of NATO? Well actually we have an official answer. It isn't publicized much, but a couple of years ago, the secretary-general of NATO made a formal statement explaining the purpose of NATO in the post-Cold War world is to control global energy systems, pipelines, and sea lanes. That means it's a global system and of course he didn't say it, it's an intervention force under US command, as we've seen in case after case. So that's NATO.

  Noam Chomsky

  Couple, War, Mean

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• By explaining the difference between segregation and separation. Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals. If I have children and they live in my house, I care for them, they're dependent upon me. And their dependence upon me puts me in a position to regulate their lives, control their lives, tell them where to go, where they can't go. That's a form of segregation.

  Malcolm X

  Children, Two, Differences

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• Long ago I decided that this program has nothing to do, the success of the program depends nothing at all on who wins or loses elections. "Are you abandoning [Donald] Trump?" No, no, no, no, don't misunderstand, I'm just explaining. I should have told you. I get emails constantly from people asking me when am I going to Trump Tower. I'm not going to Trump Tower.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Winning, Long Ago, Should Have

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I have made some headway in addressing these questions, however, and succeeded in explaining how it is that the category of knowledge might play an important role in empirical theories. To the extent that talk of knowledge can be shown to play an explanatory role in such theories, the analogy I wish to make with paradigm natural kinds such as acids and aluminum starts to make a good deal of sense. This is, of course, connected with the issue of the role of intuitions in philosophy.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Philosophy, Play, Issues

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Rather, although belief may be adequate for explaining the behavior of individual animals - an animal which believes that p will behave no differently from an animal which knows that p - talk of knowledge is necessary once one begins to look at explaining the cognitive capacities of a species.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Believe, Animal, Looks

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I don't know if you've ever seen some of the Sidney Lumet movies, like Dog Day Afternoon [1975] or Network [1976]. They're real events that happen in real time, and there are all of these different characters experiencing the same thing in different parts of the movie ... I am so bad at explaining my films. But it's in the world of finance and the world of media, and how they connect. It was a big undertaking. A big, mainstream movie, which stars Julia Roberts and George Clooney. But for me, it's really just a small story about character and people.

  Jodie Foster

  Dog, Stars, Real

  "The Legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Saoirse Ronan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• I think because I am a physical person, and because my way of expressing and performing and storytelling or explaining has always been with my body, if I can combine the two I find it really liberating.

  Zoe Bell

  Thinking, Two, Body

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't remember explaining that I was making electronic music to anyone, but I don't remember anyone being curious about it, either.

  Nicolas Jaar

  Remember, Curious, Electronic Music

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Most of the spiritual traditions were very theistic and the idea of an external god pulling the strings didn't resonate with me. I then discovered Buddhism and found the perfect path. I felt so grateful to the Buddha for having given the path, and not just explaining the end result, but showing so clearly how to get there.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Spiritual, Grateful, Buddhism

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• A lot of people expend great time and effort explaining why they don't like me, but none of them ever try to explain why their opinion should matter to me. I think most of them sense, but would never be brave enough to admit, their subordinate role in the food chain relative to me.

  Jim Goad

  Thinking, People, Effort

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• More than two years after Mad About the Boy was published, the [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries ] movie started coming together. I felt better about the material, and found myself writing a letter from Bridget to her son: explaining the original story of how he came to be, from his own Mum.

  Helen Fielding

  Baby, Writing, Son

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• When I write a political column for the Chicago Sun-Times, when liberals disagree with me, they send in long, logical e-mails explaining all my errors. I hardly ever get well-reasoned articles from the right. People just tell me to shut up. That's the message: "Shut up. Don't write anymore about this. Who do you think you are?"

  Roger Ebert

  Get Well, Writing, Thinking

  Source: progressive.org

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