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I just want someone to explain to the American public why investing in transportation in Iraq is so much more important than investing in passenger rail right here in the United States of America.
Corrine Brown
Important
States
Someone
More
Investing
Passenger
Iraq
Than
America
American
Just
Want
Explain
Public
Much
American Public
Transportation
United
Rail
Why
United States
United States Of America
Right
Here
If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.
D. A. Pennebaker
You
Phone
Problems
Somebody
High
See
Something
He
Like
Deal
Doing
Camera
Very
List
Just
Want
James
Whether
Explain
Really
Hard
Filming
We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.
Dale Archer
Parenting
You
School
Car
Drive
Mandatory
Think
Alcohol
Ought
Kids
High
License
Able
Classes
High School
Give
Parent
More
Put
Emphasis
Than
Explain
Should
Who
Starting
I can't wait until we get to the stage where we don't have to explain anymore.
Dan Hawkins
Wait
Stage
Until
Get
Where
Anymore
Explain
Psychologists and economists love to talk about the notion of two selves: present self and future self. It's a nice way to explain the tendency to have one preference about the future, but a very different preference when the future becomes the present.
Daniel Goldstein
Love
Future
Nice
Way
About
Tendency
Self
Economists
Talk
Becomes
Very
Selves
Different
Psychologists
Explain
Preference
Notion
Nice Way
Present
Two
The left brain is responsible for making order out of chaos, for making sense of things in the world that don't always add up. To do this, it often makes up stories, fantastic confabulations in some cases, just to be able to explain what we're experiencing.
Daniel Levitin
World
Sense
Add
Chaos
Out
Responsible
Able
Some
Cases
Makes
Always
Making
Brain
Left
Up
Often
Just
Order
Experiencing
Stories
Explain
Fantastic
Things
'Do not track' probably won't spell doom for online advertisers. But it will put the burden on them to explain to consumers what targeted advertising is and why it's good for them. They'll have to come out of the shadows; they'll have to be honest with people. What a radical concept. I'm all for it.
Daniel Lyons
Good
People
Burden
Will
To Be Honest
Radical
Spell
Out
Shadows
Online
Consumers
Put
Come
Concept
Advertiser
Advertising
Track
Targeted
Doom
Explain
Them
Why
Honest
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.
David Brooks
Logical
Unknown
Known
Form
Procedure
Explain
Theological
Lunacy
The best way to explain it is that I'm not yearning anymore, on or off the course. I appreciate what I have. I feel like I'm blessed.
David Duval
Best
Blessed
Way
Best Way
Feel
Like
Course
Yearning
Off
Anymore
Explain
Appreciate
The problem is that Americans use the state as a moral compass. For libertarians, it is often frustrating to explain that advocating the decriminalization of x is not synonymous with endorsing x.
David Harsanyi
Problem
State
Synonymous
Libertarians
Moral
Moral Compass
Advocating
American
Often
Endorsing
Frustrating
Explain
Use
Compass
I almost literally wake up in the morning starting to think of my next idea. It's almost always driven by what's in the news. The hard part, really, is getting from knowing what I want to say to figuring out how to say it in an image. I'm still not entirely sure how to explain how that happens... Suddenly, something just works.
David Horsey
News
Morning
Wake Up
Think
Say
Out
Entirely
Something
Driven
Part
Almost
Idea
Knowing
Sure
Always
How
Still
Wake
Up
Getting
Just
Want
Literally
Happens
Explain
Really
Next
Hard
Hard Part
Figuring
Works
Suddenly
Image
Starting
You have to talk about why things happened the way they did. You can't actually explain my political life except by a series of situations rather than by some carefully constructed, rigidly progressed ascendancy.
David Lange
Life
You
Political
Carefully
Way
Some
About
Rather
Constructed
Except
Talk
Political Life
Than
Did
Situations
Ascendancy
Happened
Explain
Series
Why
Actually
Things
I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the subject - the cultural and sociological geography - to capture them in a way that will explain them no matter what they are doing.
David Maraniss
Time
Matter
Will
Focus
Books
Way
Shape
Forces
Geography
Test
Doing
Subject
Cultural
Want
Explain
Them
Stand
Capture
Sociological
Last
People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of the town, or explain how a suspension bridge really works.
David McCullough
You
People
Walk
Will
Section
Something
Through
Town
How
Doing
Stop
Suspension
Explain
Really
Show
Helpful
Works
Bridge
I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow.
Dean Koontz
Life
Dog
Past
Believe
Would
Only
Like
Snack
Past Life
The Only Thing
Explain
Why
Thing
A producer has to want you. And if the producer trusts you and asks for your vision, it frees you up so much, not having to explain or fight for every decision. You're allowed to create.
Dee Rees
You
Fight
Vision
Decision
Every
Having
Allowed
Up
Trusts
Want
Explain
Ask
Create
Much
Producer
Your
If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore.
Denis Johnson
Loneliness
You
Yourself
Lonely
Others
Enterprise
Write
Share
Advantages
Get
Anybody
Anymore
Fiction
Anything
Explain
Certain
Who
Whole
We live in a country where John Lennon takes eight bullets, Yoko Ono is walking right beside him and not one hits her. Explain that to me!
Denis Leary
Me
Country
Live
Beside
John
John Lennon
Takes
Him
Bullets
Walking
Hits
Eight
Where
Explain
Lennon
Her
Right
I hate it when I'm reading a comic, and the dialogue looks like stickers stuck on top to explain what's going on. For me the best is when your eye goes in a certain point and moves through the composition and then springs out on the dialogue, or gets confused in the image and then goes to the dialogue for an explanation.
Denise Mina
Best
Me
Hate
Confused
Reading
Top
Eye
Out
Composition
Point
Through
Stuck
Like
Looks
Comic
Dialogue
Springs
Goes
Gets
Going
Moves
Explain
Explanation
Then
Certain
Your
Certain Point
Image
I have never had trouble with any actor being able to visualise things. They are amazing. As long as you have your monster head on a long stick, so you can hold it up there and you can wave it around and let them see it and explain it to them, they are just great.
Dennis Muren
Great
You
Amazing
Long
Trouble
Monster
Wave
Visualise
See
Able
Never
Had
Head
Stick
Around
Up
Any
Just
Being
Hold
Explain
Them
Your
Actor
Things
Most people who call themselves conservatives can't explain the American value system.
Dennis Prager
People
Value
Conservatives
Value System
System
Most
Call
American
Explain
Themselves
Who
There was no way that I could explain to dogs, friends, or parents my compelling need to return to Africa to launch a long-term study of the gorillas.
Dian Fossey
Parents
Way
Launch
Could
Study
Long-Term
Return
Dogs
Friends
Africa
Explain
Compelling
Need
I wish I could help everyone to understand this one simple fact: we believe in God because of things we know with our heart and mind, not because of things we do not know. Our spiritual experiences are sometimes too sacred to explain in worldly terms, but that doesn't mean they are not real.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
God
Spiritual
Heart
Simple
Sometimes
Mind
Wish
Believe
Too
Worldly
Everyone
Our
Simple Fact
Fact
Could
Sacred
Know
Terms
Because
Understand
Real
Experiences
Explain
Mean
Help
Things
It's hard to explain music when it goes in your gut and makes left and right and turns and moves you and resonates with you.
Dion DiMucci
Music
You
Resonates
Gut
Makes
Left
Goes
Moves
Explain
Turns
Your
Hard
Right
History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.
Donald Kagan
History
Own
Way
Telling
Had
Historians
Story
Explain
Explaining
Things
Well, unless you've suffered from panic attacks and social anxiety disorders, which is what I was diagnosed as having, it's hard to explain it. But you go on stage knowing you're actually physically going to die. You will keel over and die.
Donny Osmond
You
Anxiety
Will
Stage
Panic
Unless
Having
Physically
Attacks
Over
Knowing
Well
Diagnosed
Go
Die
Going
Which
Explain
Social
Disorders
Hard
Keel
Suffered
Actually
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