Robert Smith
Musician
"I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me."
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Explaining
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Sofia Coppola
Filmmaker
"I like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writer, Journalist
"The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true."
Tom Hanks
Actor, Producer
"Mama always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them."
J. C. Watts
Politician
"If you are explaining, you are losing."
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"I myself do not believe in explaining anything."
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"I was always annoyed by too much explaining."
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"I like doing movies with kids in them, and you're explaining things. They're teaching you and you're teaching them, and the audience can loop through that."
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"I had a clear idea about what time is till I was asked to explain it and ceased to understand it altogether as soon as I began explaining it."
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"A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations."
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"Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell. (in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy)"
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"The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors."
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"When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining."
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"The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems."
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"The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it."
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"There is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason."
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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."
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"It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things."
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"Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved or avoided."
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