Explaining Quotes

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I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck,… — Van Jones
On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me. They are… — Van Jones
I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant - just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant. — Ben Stein
I was always explaining why my term papers were never on time. I think that's where I got my acting training! — Greg Kinnear
There's nothing to prove, nothing to figure out, nothing to get, nothing to understand. When we finally stop explaining everything to ourselves, we may discover… — Steve Hagen
During the Nuremberg trials, Oswald Pohl, an SS Lieutenant General,...is shown here explaining how Farben operated such concentration camps as Auschwitz and Buchenwald. — G. Edward Griffin
If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Explaining why he was forced to cut a utility player: You just got caught in a position where you have no position. — Sparky Anderson
A garden full of sweet odours is a garden full of charm, a most precious kind of charm not to be implanted by mere skill… — Louise Wilder
I furnished the body that was needed to sit in the defendant's chair.[Explaining his role in the Scopes Monkey Trial.] — John T. Scopes
The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me. — Scott McCloud
History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story. — Donald Kagan
The difficulty of explaining â€˜why I am a Catholicâ€™ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It hardly needs explaining at length, I think, how much authority or beauty is added to style by the timely use of proverbs. In the… — Desiderius Erasmus
I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft… — Poppy Z. Brite
I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying. — Anita Diament
No doubt exists that rent seeking in general leads to serious inefficiencies in this direct sense, but its indirect damage is even worse. Drawing the… — Gordon Tullock
Lobbyists are in many cases expert technicians and capable of explaining complex and difficult subjects in a clear, understandable fashion. They engage in personal discussions… — John F. Kennedy
The hardest thing to write was explaining what anxiety feels like. Every time I'd try to really write about what it feels like to have… — Jenny Lawson
Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them. — Peter Mandelson

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