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I'm really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don't even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.
Kanye West
Try
Energy
Think
Bad
Find
Inside
Beam
Inspiration
Answer
Answering
Opposed
Question
Questions
Jump
Explaining
Them
Really
Next
Even
One of the challenges for lawyers can be explaining, first of all, what the legal issue is and, second, its significance. And both of those are important.
Ken Cuccinelli
Challenges
Legal
First
Important
Those
Significance
Lawyers
Both
First Of All
Issue
Explaining
Second
Our public schools arbitrarily define science as explaining the world by natural processes alone. In essence, a religion of naturalism is being imposed on millions of students. They need to be taught the real nature of science, including its limitations.
Ken Ham
Alone
Nature
Religion
Science
Natural
World
Public Schools
Our
Define
Students
Schools
Limitations
Real
Imposed
Essence
Taught
Being
Processes
Public
Explaining
Naturalism
Including
Millions
Need
I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.
Kevin J. Anderson
Politics
You
Science
Before
Sense
Too
Books
Kings
About
Feel
Like
Make
Course
Court
Making
Queens
Wanted
Explaining
Epic
Fantasy
When I was a child, I pretended that I had my own cooking show. I would stand at the kitchen counter with an empty bowl and spoon and talk in a silly voice, explaining the concoction I was creating.
Kimberly Schlapman
Cooking
Own
Would
Pretended
Silly
My Own
Voice
Kitchen
Had
Counter
Talk
Spoon
Bowl
Empty
Child
Explaining
Creating
Stand
Show
Cooking Show
I keep explaining this to people: I can do more than one thing.
Kristian Nairn
People
One Thing
More
Than
Explaining
Keep
Thing
I always struggle with explaining my relationship with my sister Kim. I am not sure why I am not always able to be myself when I am around her.
Kyle Richards
Myself
Relationship
Struggle
Sister
Kim
Able
Sure
Around
Always
Am
Explaining
Why
Her
The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders.
Leo Burnett
Service
Business
Sole
Sole Purpose
Purpose
Advertising
Which
Explaining
We should keep in mind that it is easy to concoct stories explaining the past or to become confident about dubious scenarios of the future. We should view both explanations and prophecies with skepticism.
Leonard Mlodinow
Future
Mind
Become
Past
Easy
About
Scenarios
Prophecy
Both
Dubious
Confident
Stories
Explaining
Skepticism
Explanations
Should
View
Keep
I have always enjoyed explaining physics. In fact it's more than just enjoyment: I need to explain physics.
Leonard Susskind
Physics
More
Fact
Always
Than
Just
In Fact
Explain
Explaining
Enjoyed
Enjoyment
Need
I'm a great believer that scientists should spend as much time as possible explaining, and you do explain in the process of teaching.
Leonard Susskind
Time
Great
You
Great Believer
Spend
Possible
Scientists
Process
Explain
Explaining
Much
Should
Teaching
Believer
My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
Mahershala Ali
Good
Mom
Sometimes
Strict
Kid
Out
Date
Never
Taking
Understand
Answer
Go
Were
Just
Interested
Explaining
Who
Why
Needed
We need scientists and mathematicians explaining why they are excited about their subjects but also why they are important for solving social problems, informing political debate and for the economy.
Marcus du Sautoy
Political
Debate
Problems
Important
Solving
About
Excited
Economy
Also
Scientists
Political Debate
Mathematicians
Subjects
Informing
Explaining
Social
Social Problems
Why
Need
I have to keep explaining to people that screen kissing isn't quite the same; it's close, but it isn't quite the same as a normal, real-life kiss.
Margot Robbie
People
Kiss
Kissing
Normal
Close
Same
Quite
Screen
Explaining
Keep
In 1962, President Kennedy succeeded in captivating Americans by explaining the advantages of being the first country to reach the moon and the dangers of allowing another nation to beat us there.
Mario Cuomo
Moon
First
Country
Nation
President
President Kennedy
Dangers
Beat
Allowing
Advantages
Reach
Another
American
Being
Explaining
Succeeded
Us
Captivating
Kennedy
I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different.
Martin Gore
Me
Hate
People
Other
Something
Absolutely
Songs
Because
Always
Different
Explaining
Mean
Away
You go to a protest, and you've got all these different groups saying things you don't necessarily agree with. If I went to a protest, my placard would have to be very long, explaining the ins and outs of my position.
Mike Bartlett
Saying
You
Long
Would
Protest
Got
Go
Very
Different
Explaining
Agree
Groups
Things
Necessarily
Position
In his second Inaugural Address, on March 5, 1821, Monroe admitted at last to a general depression of prices, but only as a means of explaining the great decline in the federal revenue. Despite this, he asserted that the situation of America presented a 'gratifying spectacle.'
Murray Rothbard
Depression
Great
Situation
Monroe
Despite
Address
Admitted
General
Only
Federal
Prices
He
Revenue
His
America
Explaining
Decline
Means
Asserted
Gratifying
March
Spectacle
Second
Last
Presented
It is actually the neuroscientists and evolutionists who do the best job of explaining the reasons behind the most unreasonable behavior.
Nancy Gibbs
Best
Behavior
Job
Unreasonable
Most
Behind
Explaining
Who
Reasons
Actually
For commercial books in a genre, readers' and editors' expectations may be fairly rigid. Some romance lines, for instance, issue fairly detailed writers' guidelines explaining exactly what must happen in a book they publish (and what must not).
Nancy Kress
Book
Publish
Books
Guidelines
Rigid
Must
Detailed
Exactly
Exactly What
Some
Writers
Instance
Genre
Fairly
Readers
Editors
Issue
Lines
Commercial
Expectations
May
Romance
Happen
Explaining
Fossil fuels are - they're inherently centralized. And you need a lot of infrastructure to get them out, and you need a lot of infrastructure to transport it, as Obama was explaining in front of all that pipe, right? Whereas renewable energy is everywhere.
Naomi Klein
You
Energy
Everywhere
Out
Obama
Renewable
Renewable Energy
Lot
Pipe
Get
Front
Whereas
Explaining
Centralized
Infrastructure
Them
Fuels
Inherently
Transport
Fossil
Fossil Fuels
Right
Need
On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength.
Naomi Watts
Life
Strength
Own
Carpet
About
Red
Feel
Red Carpet
Stuff
Suppose
Come
Talking
Comfortable
Where
Explaining
Your
Naturally
Film
Necessary
Set
Quantum physics forms the foundation of chemistry, explaining how molecules are held together. It describes how real solids and materials behave and how electricity is conducted through them... It enabled the development of transistors, integrated circuits, lasers, LEDs, digital cameras and all the modern gadgetry that surrounds us.
Neil Turok
Together
Physics
Digital
Chemistry
Through
Development
Quantum
Quantum Physics
How
Real
Materials
Integrated
Cameras
Surrounds
Behave
Modern
Forms
Explaining
Them
Us
Held
Molecules
Electricity
Foundation
A lot of people think that persuasion is all about values and aligning values. I largely disagree. I think persuasion generally, and political persuasion more particularly, has much more to do with explaining in new ways and connecting dots in new ways than just invoking emotions and values.
Nick Hanauer
People
Emotions
Disagree
Political
Values
Think
Ways
About
More
Generally
New
Invoking
Particularly
Lot
Than
New Ways
Just
Explaining
Dots
Much
Persuasion
Connecting
Largely
You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.
Peter Garrett
Life
You
Yourself
Spend
Want
Explaining
Your
I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years.
Poppy Z. Brite
Death
Book
First
Several
About
Absolutely
Write
Contained
New
Without
Years
References
New Orleans
Wanted
Anyone
Explaining
Much
Certainly
Who
Lived
Orleans
Incomprehensible
Draft
Here
Honest
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