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Don't waste your time explaining who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.
LeCrae

Don't expend energy elucidating your identity to those who are determined to misconstrue you.
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2.
Stop explaining yourself. Shut up and act!
Craig MacDonald

3.
Writing has been a way of explaining to myself the things I do not understand.
Rosario Castellanos

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I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.
Robert Smith

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I am only describing language, not explaining anything.
Joseph Kosuth

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I like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue.
Sofia Coppola

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The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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A writer is not interested in explaining reality, he’s only interested in capturing it.
Brendan Kennelly

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God is more interested in declaring than explaining.
Matt Chandler

10.
Mama always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them.
Tom Hanks

11.
If you are explaining, you are losing.
J. C. Watts

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You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.
Peter Garrett

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It's very hard not to be condescending when you're explaining something to an idiot.
Bill Maher

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I don't want to spend my life explaining myself. You either get it, or you don't.
Frank Zappa

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I myself do not believe in explaining anything.
Shel Silverstein

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Teamwork is wasting half of one's time explaining to others why they are wrong.
Georges Wolinski

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If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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I was always annoyed by too much explaining.
Clint Eastwood

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When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view.
Katy Perry

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If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
Alan Perlis

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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
Jonathan Safran Foer

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I like writing in an illustrative, descriptive way. I prefer describing to rather than explaining.
Iron & Wine

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As a legislator, I saw how effective I could be by being transparent, posting and explaining all of my votes.
Justin Amash

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when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.
Maria Edgeworth

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History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.
Donald Kagan

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I'm used to explaining to people why my jokes were funny.
Gilbert Gottfried

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When you start explaining why something's funny or finding a formula for it I think it loses some of its funniness.
Betty White

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If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.
Eliezer Yudkowsky

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This is one of those times when explaining a feeling cannot measure up to actually having the feeling
Adriana Trigiani

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There's nothing cooler than someone explaining to you, as if it was easy, how they create antimatter. And they kept saying things like, "Well obviously you know that..."
Will Farquarson

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I want my music to do the explaining.
Demi Lovato

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Friendship...is like pain. Explaining it is impossible.
Norma Fox Mazer

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When I'm explaining something to you, if I'm being long-winded, and twisty in a non-productive way, I could make you feel vaguely insulted. And you'd have a right to be.
George Saunders

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You may not be aware of this but Leonard Bernstein won another award, for explaining the music of Igor Stravinsky... to Igor Stravinsky!
Victor Borge

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I don't remember explaining that I was making electronic music to anyone, but I don't remember anyone being curious about it, either.
Nicolas Jaar

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And the venality of those Judaized is incapable of explaining anti-Semitism as a social phenomenon, we will call it the anti-Semitic theory.
A. C. Cuza

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I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.
Richard Dawkins

38.
A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations.
Mark Richard

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I like doing movies with kids in them, and you're explaining things. They're teaching you and you're teaching them, and the audience can loop through that.
Aaron Eckhart

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Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell. (in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy)
Joseph Brodsky

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If a theory purports to explain everything, then it is likely not explaining much at all.
Massimo Pigliucci

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I had a clear idea about what time is till I was asked to explain it and ceased to understand it altogether as soon as I began explaining it.
Saint Augustine

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I wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are about, but they didn't do it.
Dick Dale

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When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.
Yoko Ono

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There is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.
Myrtle Reed

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He's just explaining the situation to her, but he's all over her every chance he gets! Kureno! Touching Tohru!!!
Natsuki Takaya

48.
Without explaining why, and, most of all, without naming other authors or books, I can only say my novels are influenced by love and death.
Alice McDermott

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Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved or avoided.
Kurt Vonnegut

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A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.
Dorothy Nevill