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In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.


Adele


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We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd read; you can say something, you don't have to explain it.


Kevin Ayers


#books #could #explain #had #knew

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.


Julian Barnes


#books #did #explained #life #say

Although Darwin was able to persuade much of the world that a modern eye could be produced gradually from a much simpler structure, he did not even attempt to explain how the simple light sensitive spot that was his starting point actually worked.


Michael Behe


#actually #although #attempt #could #darwin

You never get quite down to the bottom of the barrel, but we are much higher than that at the present time. There is quite a lot left in the barrel that could be explained by them. If they have some weapons, if they have some anthrax, they should deliver that.


Hans Blix


#barrel #bottom #could #deliver #down

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.


Isaac Newton


#appearances #both #causes #explain #more

I get heartfelt thanks from all kinds of people. Today I heard from a waitress in Georgia who has lost her job and is trying to figure out how her local bank can change the terms on her credit card, and I heard from a physicist at a major research university who wants to explain a better theory of financial stress tests.


Elizabeth Warren


#better #card #change #credit #credit card

Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual, so ceasing to do so is like finally dropping the weights and sprinting towards his goals. Those who insincerely misunderstand, who intentionally distort the motives of a pure-intentioned individual, then, no longer have the opportunity to block his path; instead, they are the ones left to stand on the sidelines shouting frustratedly in the wind of his trail.


Criss Jami


#burdens #explaining #explanations #frustration #goals

... things are the way they are in our universe because if they Weren't, we would not be here to notice.


Brian Greene


#explain #explains-a-lot #life #meaning-of-life #philosophy

The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.


Douglas Adams


#conversation #different #difficulty #explained #had






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