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I still have friends from primary school. And my two best girlfriends are from secondary school. I don't have to explain anything to them. I… — Emma Watson
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. — Oscar Wilde
Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of… — James Wolcott
The things I talk about and explain couldn't happen - yet, they don't seem impossible - you could say I talk about the world in… — Steven Wright
Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain. — Elizabeth Bowen
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of… — Stephen King
People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone… — Joss Whedon
I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards. — Rudyard Kipling
I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know everything, and there may… — Philip Pullman
As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway. — Bill Watterson
Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If there is no god, what is left but science? What is left to endow us with any grace? You can tell me the chemical… — Sharon Shinn
Explain me to myself, youâ€™ll make me choke on my lunch. Feel sympathy for me, Iâ€™ll puke monkey blood on your understated shoes. — Don DeLillo
But something occurred to me as I sped through that dirty shroud of fog, something Vonnegut has been trying to explain to the rest of… — Steve Almond
Inevitably we construct ourselves. Let me explain. I enter this house and immediately I become what I have to become, what I can become: I… — Luigi Pirandello
However, withered, I still feel myself to be exactly the same person I've always been. Hard to explain that to the young. we may look… — Ian Mcewan
Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all,… — John Derbyshire
All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it… — Wayne Dyer
Asking the head I have now to explain its own thinking is as pointless as dialing your own telephone number on your own telephone: Either… — Nick Hornby
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon… — Albert Einstein

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