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Reality is very, very contradictory, and so I try to write just perfecting what I see, what I read, what I feel, in a feel-thinking way. Not only giving ideas, or receiving ideas, or trying to explain something, but mainly feel-thinking, a feel-thinking language able to tie the heart and the mind, which have been divorced.
Eduardo Galeano / Journalist
Contradictory
Divorced
Giving
Heart
Reality
Receiving
Writing
Explain
Mainly
Perfecting
Tie
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The anti-war politicians who have risen to power in Washington, London, Ottawa and Brussels have never had to explain why they were offering the persecuted people of Iraq nothing that was in any way more useful to them than the shoddy, outrageously ill-planned intervention that was on offer from Blair and Bush back in 2003.
Terry Glavin /
Anti War
Blair
Brussels
Intervention
London
Offering
Ottawa
Persecuted
Risen
Power People Way
Useful
Bush
Washington
Politicians
Explain
Shoddy
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I was well-dressed and good at firing people because I really did care. I cared about giving them the opportunity to talk through the situation and was always sincere. I would explain that 'This was a bad match,' and they were probably meant to do other things if they weren't giving their all to this, which paid $10 a hour.
Al Madrigal / Comedian
Firing
Sincere
Good Always Opportunity
Cared
Explain
Match
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It's a fun uphill struggle, making health insurance as a comedian, actor, and author. But it's hard to explain to people how I make a living. In New York, most people know enough creative types that I make some sense. But when I'm talking to someone like my suburban cousins or my mom's friends, it doesn't always go smoothly.
Chris Gethard / Actor
Comedian
Author
Explain
Health Insurance
Insurance
Smoothly
Suburban
Types
Uphill
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My mom was like, 'What did I do as a mom for you to want to become a wrestler?' They just didn't understand, and it's really hard to explain what made me love wrestling so much. There's something about it that made me fall in love, and ever since I laid my eyes on it, I knew I wanted to be a professional wrestler in the WWE.
Sasha Banks /
Fall
Wrestler
Wwe
Love Mom Me
Explain
Eyes
Laid
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One has to explain to people that the EU in this form is the answer both to 1945 and to the 21st century, in a dramatically altered world with new heavyweights, and that Germany benefits from the continued integration of Europe in political, economic and societal ways. And, of course, that means the Germans will have to pay.
Peer Steinbruck / Former Federal Ministry Of Finance (Germany)
Altered
Benefits
Germany
Integration
World Political People
Political World People
Dramatically
Eu
Explain
Heavyweight
Germans
Societal
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Filming costs so much money, so it's such a nerve-racking process, whereas being in a studio is quite cheap compared to that, so you have more time to work on things until you feel good about them. That makes it easier to explain a certain feeling and be in a vulnerable place while making sure it does what you want it to do.
Robyn / Record Producer
Easier
Feel Good
Process
Time Work Good
Quite
Nerve-Racking
Cheap
Compared
Filming
Explain
Work Time Good
Studio
So Much Money
Whereas
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To find money to make a film, you have to write maybe 50 pages to explain what you'd like to do, what the film will be, but everybody lies. Because he doesn't know what the film will be. Everybody writes 50 pages and sends it to a TV channel, a producer, to get money, but everybody lies. Or else your film is not interesting.
Rithy Panh / Film Director
Film
Interesting
Pages
Money Your Will
Tv
Channel
Explain
Money Will Your
Lies
Maybe
Producer
Sends
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The book, '12 Rules For Life,' is a very serious book. There's elements of humor in it, but I'm trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it's necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there's hell to pay if you don't do that.
Jordan Peterson / Psychologist
Humor
Elements
Hell
Moral
Noble
Serious
Struggle
Truthful
Rules
Deepest
Explain
Life Is A
Necessary
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A state of shock is what results when a gap opens up between events and our initial ability to explain them. When we find ourselves in that position, without a story, without our moorings, a great many people become vulnerable to authority figures telling us to fear one another and relinquish our rights for the greater good.
Naomi Klein / Author
Authority
Authority Figures
Events
Figures
Greater
Greater Good
Position
Results
Shock
Good Great Fear
Good Fear Great
Explain
Gap
Initial
Opens
Relinquish
Telling
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I just want to be at peace with myself, personally and professionally. I want to lead my life the way I want to without having to worry about what the other person may be thinking. Professionally again, I would like to be able to just do films that I want to without having to explain my reasons to my friends, family and fans.
Rani Mukerji / Film Actress
Fans
Thinking
Worry
Life Family Peace
Explain
Professionally
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The reason why China forecasting has such a poor track record is that Westerners constantly invoke the model and experience of the West to explain China, and it is a false prophet. Until we start trying to understand China on its own terms, rather than as a Western-style nation in the making, we will continue to get it wrong.
Martin Jacques / Journalist
China
Forecasting
Invoke
Poor
Prophet
Track
Track Record
Constantly
Nation
Explain
False
Model
Record
Terms
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I went to a technology conference in Germany, and there were these beautiful, model-like women standing there in front of the products. I asked a question, and she had no clue what the product was. She had to call someone from the back to explain it to me. To me, that's using a woman as an object. To me, that's totally wrong.
Manal Al-Sharif /
Clue
Germany
Conference
Explain
No Clue
Object
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You need virtual reality to understand high level science or high level math. It's very helpful to explain third and fourth dimensional things that people are constantly addressing in quantum physics. But, as soon as you're creating an avatar, and you can live and you can start to feel sensations on VR, that has gone too far.
Jaden Smith / Actor
Science
Creating
Fourth
Helpful
High Level
Math
Physics
Quantum
Quantum Physics
Reality
Sensations
Virtual Reality
Understand
Addressing
Avatar
Constantly
High
Explain
Far
Soon
Start
Third
Virtual
Vr
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Along with racial equality and the late bloom of women's rights, future generations will have to explain how, in the past, gays were misunderstood and publicly humiliated for loving each other, and, eventually, how they stood together and conquered stupidity and hypocritical hatred, and fought their way out of marginalization.
Io Tillett Wright /
Equality
Generations
Humiliated
Hypocritical
Stupidity
Bloom
Conquered
Explain
Fought
Future Generations
Gays
In The Past
Publicly
Racial
Stood
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I guess it's because I do have a younger audience that, you know, parents worry about the role model thing. But when I was younger, I looked up to people, but I never wanted to be them. I always had my own identity. I'm an entertainer when I'm on stage, and they need to explain that to their kids. That's not my job to do that.
Britney Spears / Artist
Audience
Identity
Stage
Worry
Younger
Entertainer
Explain
Model
Guess
Looked
Role
Role Model
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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 / Screenwriter
Appeals
Being Honest
Sitting
Life Time Truth
Explain
Life Truth Time
Intellectually
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Growing up in New York, I was sort of shocked when I realized that my children are Californians. They are 14 years old, and I explain to them frequently that they will never realize the glory of a snow day. You wake up and the world says, 'Oops, it's too much fun to go to school, you've got to stay home and deal with the snow!'
Adam Savage / Industrial Designer
New York
Californians
Children
Glory
Growing Up
Shocked
Snow
Wake Up
Explain
Frequently
Wake
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I almost literally wake up in the morning starting to think of my next idea. It's almost always driven by what's in the news. The hard part, really, is getting from knowing what I want to say to figuring out how to say it in an image. I'm still not entirely sure how to explain how that happens... Suddenly, something just works.
David Horsey /
Driven
News
Wake Up
Hard Part
Entirely
Explain
Figuring
Literally
Suddenly
Wake
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One is constantly trying to figure out what came together in one's childhood. Lots of people spend significant portions of their lives in therapy - especially in the States - trying to work out who they are. I'm certain there is a little of that in the business of writing. That would explain why certain images and themes recur.
Paul Muldoon / Poet
Portions
Significant
Therapy
Work Out
Explain
Images
Recur
Themes
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In 1995 I decided to stop eating meat. I could never really quite explain why; I think it was something to do with watching a documentary where they cooked a cat and partly because I had a really crap job working for Wolves Poly and felt my life was slipping away. It definitely wasn't anything to do with any 'vegetarian month'.
Rob Manuel /
Cat
Crap
Meat
Slipping
Life My Life Never
Month
Life My Life Eating
Cooked
Documentary
Explain
Partly
Wolves
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A person looking after a frail former lover is not working and not contributing to economic growth. But if he or she stopped, the state would probably have to take over, thereby adding to growth. So, to increase growth, we should stop looking after our loved ones. Could anybody explain to a passing Martian how this makes sense?
Guy Standing /
Contributing
Economic Growth
Former
Frail
Loved Ones
Passing
Adding
Lover
Explain
He Or She
Martian
Thereby
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I just love cake, confetti cake, to be specific. It has little colored candies inside the cake, and then you get the confetti icing, which is really hard to find sometimes. It's really hard to explain to people, because it's not icing with sprinkles on top. It's icing that actually has candies inside of it. It's Funfetti icing.
Channing Tatum / Actor
Cake
Icing
Inside
Love People Sometimes
Colored
Explain
Specific
Top
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If I can stay healthy, then I can wrestle every single week. I want to make every single town that I can, see the whole world, feel every crowd in every arena, and pull those emotional strings. I can't explain what it feels like to be in the center stage connecting with thousands of people, but I'm having the best time doing it.
Roman Reigns / Professional Wrestler
Arena
Connecting
Strings
Time Best World
Best Time
Center
Best Time World
Crowd
Explain
Pull
Thousands Of People
Wrestle
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It's a spectacular signal. It's a signal many of us have wanted to observe since the time LIGO was proposed. It shows the dynamics of objects in the strongest gravitational fields imaginable, a domain where Newton's gravity doesn't work at all, and one needs the fully non-linear Einstein field equations to explain the phenomena.
Rainer Weiss /
Domain
Dynamics
Equations
Newton
Spectacular
Time Work Where
Einstein
Phenomena
Explain
Gravitational
Imaginable
Observe
Proposed
Signal
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The bells cease, and the power goes from me, and I descend again to the world of the living; and if in some foolish confiding moment I try to explain why I want to re-live those old days, to tear the Truth out of the past so that all men shall see plainly, perhaps someone will say to me, 'Oh, the War! A tragedy - best forgotten.'
Henry Williamson / Author
Bells
Cease
Foolish
Forgotten
Old Days
Tragedy
Descend
Explain
Perhaps
Plainly
Shall
Tear
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I made a movie to explain to the American public what had been achieved in regards to disarmament of Iraq and why inspectors aren't in Iraq today and detailing the very complex, murky history of interaction between Iraq, the United Nations and the United States. It is most definitely not a pro-Iraq movie. It is a pro-truth movie.
Scott Ritter / Critic
Disarmament
Interaction
Iraq
Nations
Today
United Nations
United States
Achieved
American Public
Complex
Detailing
Explain
Murky
Regards
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I was raised a Calvinist. You might think you know what that means, but let me explain it the way my mother preached it to my three sisters and me back when we were at home: 'I buy my girls Calvin Klein clothes, so that's all they know. Then, when they graduate from college, they have to figure out how to pay for them themselves.'
Karen Finerman / Television Personality
Clothes
Raised
Home Mother Me
Sisters
Calvin Klein
Home Me Way
Explain
Figure
Graduate
Preached
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In my late 20s, I realized that I had a very clear social conscience and strong opinions about things like diversity, equality, and education, and while I tried to become more politically literate, I just couldn't catch on. It felt like I had walked into a movie that had already started, and no one would explain what had happened.
Tracee Ellis Ross / Actress
Conscience
Catch
Explain
Literate
Opinions
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The professed war-weariness among populations who have sent only a small percentage of their sons and daughters to fight in recent wars may derive from a failure to communicate effectively what is at stake in those wars and explain why the efforts are worthy of the risks, resources, and sacrifices necessary to sustain the strategy.
H. R. Mcmaster /
Failure
Communicate
Resources
Strategy
Worthy
Daughters
Among
Wars
Derive
Effectively
Efforts
Explain
Percentage
Professed
Recent
Sacrifices
Sent
Sons
Stake
Sustain
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I can get along great with the Hispanics. In fact, I sure would like to meet them, even the politicians, maybe in the back room or whatever, have a couple of beers and try to explain. But they need to understand that I enforce the laws. I want to listen to them and hear their problems. I want them to tell me what their problems are.
Joe Arpaio / Maricopa County Sheriff's Office
Beer
Couple
Law
Politicians
Enforce
Explain
Hispanics
In Fact
Meet
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I want to get violence - I want schools to start from K through 12 to just every day have teachers understand that they don't want to talk about anything that is violent, and they want to explain to the children how bad violence is and how behavior - violent behavior, is something that they really should not practice and think about.
Bill Cosby / Comedian
Teacher
Children
School
Teachers
Explain
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Everyone on the Left has a favorite story that allows them to kind of excuse Reagan, explain away Reagan, say he was dumb, but unless we reckon with that kind of emotional intelligence and his ability to kind of speak to the aspirations of the American people, the less liberals are going to be able to understand the soul of his appeal.
Rick Perlstein / Historian
Dumb
Emotional Intelligence
Excuse
American People
Appeal
Aspirations
Explain
Liberals
Reckon
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Since I stayed in a colony where either one was an engineer or a scientist, everybody thought I would be a scientist. This was the expectation everybody had apart from my parents. Honestly, I, too, wanted to be a scientist. I think it was the way Dad would explain us scientific theories and concepts that made the subject more intriguing.
Shreya Ghoshal / Playback Singer
Dad
Colony
Concepts
Honestly
Intriguing
Wanted
Since
Apart
Either
Expectation
Explain
Parents
Scientific
Stayed
Subject
Theories
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Taking dishes straight off the restaurant's menu and putting them into a cookbook doesn't work, because as a chef you have your own vision of what your food is, but you can't always explain it. Or you can't pick recipes that best illustrate who and where you are and what you're doing. And if the recipes don't work, you don't have a book.
Marcus Samuelsson / Chef
Chef
Cookbook
Dishes
Recipes
Vision
Best Work Food
Explain
Illustrate
Menu
Pick
Putting
Restaurant
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A trial is a powerful vehicle to explain things. It is the most time that anybody spends really thinking about one thing. Unless you are the analyst on the National Security staff that's assigned to monitor Putin, and that's all you do, day in and day out, very few people ever spend the time on a single subject that is spent during trial.
David Boies / Lawyer
National Security
Putin
Staff
Vehicle
Time Thinking Day
Analyst
Assigned
Explain
Few People
Monitor
Trial
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That's the thing: once it's in their hands, it's not my book anymore, it's theirs. I have no idea what happens when they start to digest it. So when someone writes me to explain how they read it, what it was like, what they enjoyed, there's a thrill. Writers who don't make their email addresses public are missing out on something wonderful.
Rosecrans Baldwin / Novelist
Enjoyed
Missing
No Idea
Thrill
Digest
Explain
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There's this terrific kid in Maine who saw all the waste generated by straws handed out in restaurants. So he made up these little pop-up cards and asked restaurant owners put them on the tables to explain why straws wouldn't be handed out unless requested. Of course, the restaurant owners couldn't resist a 9-year-old kid, and so it worked.
Philippe Cousteau, Jr. /
Cards
Maine
Owners
Restaurants
Tables
Terrific
Waste
Explain
Handed
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When I want to explain why empowering girls and women is critical to fighting poverty, I often tell a person's story. It's easier to relate to a personal story than to global data telling us that the majority of the billion people who live on less than $2 per day are women and girls. We are often told to never treat a person like a statistic.
Helene D. Gayle /
Critical
Data
Easier
Empowering
Fighting
Majority
Poverty
Relate
Billion
Explain
Global
Per
Personal
Statistic
Telling
Treat
Women And Girls
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I've had experiences in my life that leave no doubt in my mind about the fact that God exists. I'm quite willing to debate people who don't think so because I want them to explain to me how did our solar system get so organized and how is the universe so complex and yet well-organized that we can predict 70 years hence when a comet is coming?
Ben Carson /
Debate
Doubt
Mind
No Doubt
Organized
Solar System
Universe
Willing
Years
Life God Me
Predict
Life God Mind
Life God Universe
Quite
Did
Comet
Coming
Complex
Leave
Exists
Explain
Fact
Hence
My Life
Solar
System
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Theatre is real-time - you get that real-time audience reaction, which is fantastic. And with art pieces, people don't ever have to explain themselves. You can do something and really follow a research. With architecture, you have to be much more public. You have to build consensus. You have to work within the law. There are more complexities.
Elizabeth Diller /
Architecture
Consensus
Art Work Architecture
Complexities
Explain
Work Art Architecture
Reaction
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The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism.
Bernard Williams / Philosopher
Combination
Dislike
Empty
Genes
Speculation
Tone
Ancestors
Evolutionary
Explain
Hominid
Morally
Unimaginative
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I remember going to a theater once, and there was a stairway that wound its way out to the back. And I was very young, a small child, and I said to my mom, 'Why are those people going up those stairs?' And she said, 'You know, I don't know how to tell you this, I don't know how to explain it, but it won't always be that way, because it's wrong.'
Joe R. Lansdale / Author
Small Child
Stairs
Mom Always Remember
Explain
Wound
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A long time ago, we had to build interfaces to connect with other companies, and I thought that was a great idea. The company had to pay a lot of money to build it and basically launched it, but our whole operating system almost broke. So, we couldn't continue it. In the end, I had to go on the train to Paris to explain that I had spent millions.
Gillian Tans /
Broke
Great Idea
Long Time Ago
Time Money Great
Explain
In The End
Operating
Operating System
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