#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. ↗

— Lillian Gish

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The one thing I seek above all else is understanding. Sometimes I'm so frustrated and I don't get it. But I'm lucky to have a good management team and people around me who explain things and answer my questions. ↗

— Justin Guarini

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It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood? ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

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Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it. ↗

— Max Jacob

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Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language. ↗

— Roman Jakobson

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Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando. ↗

— Orlando Jones

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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, fighting for the future. ↗

— Van Jones

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It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

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

— James Joyce

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Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl. ↗

— Benjamin Jowett

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