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There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.
With all the problems we are having, I won't be afraid to tell leadership, 'You need to explain to me why I should follow you anywhere.'
There's plenty about God that I don't understand and can't explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He's for us.
My only vice is 'Keeping up With The Kardashians.' I can't really explain what it is that fascinates me so much, but it just sucks me in.
Having a kid is hard to explain, but when you talk to another parent, you have mutual understanding of what that does to you as a person.
No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull and it would also make no sense.
At the moment there are some England players who are the stars of their club teams, but not for their country. It's difficult to explain.
We live in a country where John Lennon takes eight bullets, Yoko Ono is walking right beside him and not one hits her. Explain that to me!
The tough thing about these senatorial jobs is you get 'yes' or 'no' votes. Your whole job is to either say 'yes' or 'no' and explain why.
The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.
At five years old, I became the man of the house. When he left, my dad let me know that. It put a certain drive in me that I can't explain.
Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten.
I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.
I remember thinking, in Kansas my name will be Evett - which is my middle name. I didn't want to explain to anyone how to say Em-a-yat-zee.
If I write something set 60 years in the future, I am going to have to explain how humanity got there, and that's becoming quite a big job.
Teach your kids emotional intelligence. Help them become more evolved than you are. Explain that, for instance, not everyone will like them.
Every time I'd get a job, they'd say: 'You'll be good at loading trucks.' I couldn't explain that there was more to me than carrying things.
I was a popular professor. My teaching ratings were usually good. I could take complicated subjects and explain them in an entertaining way.
It takes about three times as long to explain to someone why you won't give them an autograph as it does to actually give them an autograph.
I wanted to explain that just because I'm rapping in this funny way doesn't mean that I'm not worthy of actually being evaluated as a rapper.
I've always been in my own world, even as a young girl. But I fell in love with music because it made me feel something that I can't explain.
The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable.
To say that what a planet is doesn't matter would be to imply that a planetary scientist couldn't explain to someone what the field is about.
For every manager, it is important to explain your ideas. It's very important the club understand those ideas and are ready to work together.
I'm not sure a lot of companies know their story, or can explain why they exist and who they are, without just spewing just corporate speech.
It's very hard to explain to people who don't program, but the object-oriented programming system made programming the Mac and iPhone so easy.
I just play, that's all. When I'm in the field, I always connect with what I'm doing. I can't explain it. I can't control it. It just happens.
One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane.
If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.
Kublai noticed this uncommon perception that Marco Polo has, with the idea to explain and talk about his country so vividly that he can see it.
The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of their imagination, somewhere to go.
I guess trying to throw my body into the guitar is so natural for me that I don't even know how to explain it. I can't imagine life without it.
I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.
The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.
I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.
I felt more like a scientist exploring nature, and Windows was my environment. You don't pass judgment on nature; you just explain how it works.
Please explain to me what being an icon is. How do you define it? I haven't been given a script. I don't know what the dialogues of an icon are.
How do you explain the bond between man and wife? Well, for one thing, it's private. What people do in their own marriage is their own business.
I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain what is, at heart, illogical.
I juxtapose and slice up reality and fiction quite easily. I'm aware that it is up for grabs and a powerful tool to explain how we take control.
Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.
Parents of all girls must simultaneously explain overt and covert sexism, name it whenever they see it, and teach their daughters to do the same.
I can tell you from personal experience it gets a little tiring having to make the rounds on cable shows to explain 'what's up with black folks.'
Every time someone tried to explain to me there are limits to what one man can do, I pointed to the boundless sky and said, 'There is the limit'.
I think it's crucial to go out and explain to people who you are and where you come from, your hardships - that's the kind of stuff I connect to.
I imagine explaining a work of art to my grandmother in five minutes, and if I can't explain it in five minutes, then it's too obtuse or esoteric.
I have to trust something that gives me power; I have to believe in something, but in my career I have a lot of moments I cannot explain with God.
We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves.
We all kind of have moments like that, where we don't know why we're acting a certain way, or we can't even explain the emotion that we're feeling.
You can't explain why people are friends and why those friendships last, but there certainly is magic in it. It's just something that you treasure.