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• Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don’t understand.

  Megan Chance

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• I’ve gone to skin doctors and they’ll say to you, ‘We should remove this because it’s pre-cancerous,’ and I’ll say, ‘Explain pre-cancerous to me.’ I’ll listen for about twenty minutes and I’ll say excuse me, ‘Is pre-cancerous like pre-dead? So you’re saying it could turn into cancer but it’s not cancer?’

  George Hamilton

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• I can’t explain it. It’s what turns you to powder, being ground between what you can’t do and what you must do. You just turn to dust.

  James Salter

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• Never explain yourself. Your friends don’t need it and your enemies won’t believe it.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

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• It’s funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: ‘So, what does it take to make it?’ Well, first explain to me what you mean by ‘making it’: Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?

  Eddie Van Halen

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• Men explain things to me, still. And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don’t. Not yet, but according to the actuarial tables, I may have another fortysomething years to live, more or less, so it could happen. Though I’m not holding my breath.

  Rebecca Solnit

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• I was a normal kid. I can’t explain how normal I was.

  Suraj Sharma

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• I often think about image, and image is something that – but in truth, the real artistic process, as I’ve understood it, is 95 percent intuitive, like seat-of-the-pants, at-the-moment decisions that you can’t even explain, you know?

  George Saunders

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• Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive; it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes.

  Jonathan Sacks

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• Sometimes it can feel like the whole globe is spinning with irredeemable losses, capricious natural disasters and crimes so outrageously evil they dismantle any attempt to solve or explain them.

  Karen Russell

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• Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word.

  Mstislav Rostropovich

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• Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.

  Unknown

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• I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn’t explain away afterwards.

  Rudyard Kipling

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• I like working with actresses, and I like women a lot, not for obvious reasons, but just in that that there’s so much about what they bring to the scene that keeps it so interesting. Their instincts are so different, and they never explain them to you.

  Ryan Gosling

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• I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.

  Julie Andrews

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• Now Speaker Gingrich says interesting and insightful things. He can explain them well. On many occasions he also says outrageous things that come from nowhere and he has a tendency to say them at exactly the time when they most undermine the conservative agenda.

  Jim Talent

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• You can’t ask me to explain the lyrics because I won’t do it.

  Lou Reed

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• I’m interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of the process of being honest is – in my mind – talking about the idea that you’re watching a movie. You’re sitting here watching a movie. And I like that. It appeals to me intellectually, and also in a way I can’t even explain.

  Charlie Kaufman

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• Never explain yourself. Your friends don’t need it, and your enemies won’t believe it.

  Belgicia Howell

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• If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

  Albert Einstein

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