#lana

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#childish #evil #explanation #ignore #looked

The non-comic, factual explanation is that I felt there was a myth about terrorist bombers being medieval-minded, 'fundamentalist, primitivist' people. There seems to be a lot of evidence to contradict that, especially in Britain. Some of the ideology behind what has become modern jihadism was socially progressive, certainly in Egypt, for example. ↗

— Chris Morris

#become #behind #being #bombers #britain

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#current #explanations #fabric #fit #making

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#even #explanations #mystical #shallow #thought

And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy. ↗

— Denis Norden

#explanation #got #offer #root #then

I loved making 'The Hunger Games' - it was the happiest experience of my professional life. Lionsgate was supportive of me in a manner that few directors ever experience in a franchise: they empowered me to make the film I wanted to make and backed the movie in a way that requires no explanation beyond the remarkable results. ↗

— Gary Ross

#beyond #directors #empowered #ever #experience

So how does Liz Phair feel about Lana Del Rey? Well, as a recording artist, I've been hated, I've been ridiculed, and conversely, hailed as the second coming. All that matters in the end is that I've been heard. ↗

— Liz Phair

#artist #been #coming #conversely #del

Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#explanation #genetics #intellectuals #invokes #mind

And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#actual #biology #chemistry #explanations #founded

For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#come #explanation #human #human beings #music