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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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• 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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• 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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  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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• You can’t explain much in 60 seconds, but when you show Michael Jordan, you don’t have to. It’s that simple.

  Phil Knight

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• It’s hard to explain why I like Europe so much.

  Broderick Crawford

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• I would go to them and I would explain this is the price of going forward. We’re going to move ahead in all these other areas. We’re moving ahead in tax reform and GST, we are moving ahead on trade, but this will not be done at the cost of the environment.

  Brian Mulroney

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• In every interview I’ve got to explain something about being white but still being into hip hop. It’s gone way beyond the musical aspect of the business. And I’m as critical about music as everybody else is.

  Brian Austin Green

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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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• How do I explain Neil Young? Great question! I explain Neil Young as, I would kill to see his acoustic shows.

  Bob Mould

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• There are words that work, that are meant to explain and educate on policies that work, on products that work, on services that work. I’m not going to ever try to sell a lemon. I don’t do that.

  Frank Luntz

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• So often corporate America, business America, are the worst communicators, because all they understand are facts, and they cannot tell a story. They know how to explain their quarterly results, but they don’t know how to explain what they mean.

  Frank Luntz

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