Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.

A good theory explains a lot but postulates little.

The first 12 bars of 'Pre-Occupied' explains my entire career.

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.

Science explains what nature is doing; money often explains what we're doing.

We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here.

Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.

Cheap labor explains why there is so much resistance to protecting America's border.

Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.

I was born in the Chinese year of the rooster, so maybe that explains my affinity with chickens.

Years at sea probably explains why I'm single. But every person in the military makes sacrifices.

We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time it makes a decision.

Keeping it simple, 'Bounce Back' explains my trust issues. I'm sure everyone can relate in some way.

The past explains how I got here, but the future is up to me - and I love to live life at full throttle.

My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?

I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.

I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.

Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.

I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever.

You either like something, or you don't; you won't change your opinion because somebody explains why you should like it.

Who knew we had all this O.C.D. in the world? Well actually, I suppose it's pretty obvious. It explains Sudoku, doesn't it?

The first iron rule of American politics is Follow the Money. This explains, oh, about 80 percent of what goes on in Washington.

I never knew my father, which explains the Clint thing. He called himself Daddy... I loved it then, because it filled a great void.

I was told that Ganesha sat between Lakshmi and Saraswati. My quest to attain the blessings of both goddesses explains my physique.

Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

The euphoria around economic booms often obscures the possibility for a bust, which explains why leaders typically miss the warning signs.

I have a lot of security - I lost my mother to the Taliban because of a lack of security - and that explains partly why I can be so vocal.

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.

Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

The ethnic differences among Filipinos are very real. The paucity of arable land, for instance, explains the industry of the Ilokanos and the Cebuanos.

The freedom enjoyed in Western society under the rule of law and constitutional government explains both the quality of its civilization and its wealth.

Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.

I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion.

If someone explains me the definition of love, I will give my life to the person. Love is a thing which is difficult to understand. Love is always evolving.

It is curious to note how fragile the memory is, even for the important times in one's life. This is, moreover, what explains the fortunate fantasy of history.

Openness explains the ability to innovate and come up with big ideas because you're open to them, and fluid intelligence explains the ability to go and execute.

Everyone wants to be liked. It's a basic human impulse for some of you, and that explains the turn-on-a-dime hypocrisy from people like Jim Carrey and Sean Penn.

There is a 'patrician arrogance' to James Taylor that accounts in part for his popularity while it at the same time explains the critical resistance to his work.

Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.

I'm a Catholic by background. I was raised in Goa, a part of India that was visited by Portuguese missionaries a few hundred years ago, which explains my last name.

I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.

You take 35 degrees out of 360 degrees and call it a photo. No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.

It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do.

The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true.

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