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At the moment there are some England players who are the stars of their club teams, but not for their country. It's difficult to explain.
Diego Maradona

Country, Moment, Difficult

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
Donald Knuth

Art, Science, Everything

For some reason I can't explain, artist and musicians tend to look younger than our age. Being in music, you need this youthful sense of discovery and wonder for what you're doing and keep your imagination open. That's a youthful way of looking at life and I think that reflects in how you age.
Joshua Bell

Life, Music, Age

Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty.
Marcus V. Pollio

Science, Learning, May

Although Darwin was able to persuade much of the world that a modern eye could be produced gradually from a much simpler structure, he did not even attempt to explain how the simple light sensitive spot that was his starting point actually worked.
Michael Behe

Simple, Light, Able

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.
Martina Navratilova

Job, Why, Easier

The frenzy of the little-girl culture is something very unique, and I can only say that because I was one. The obsession - I can't really explain it. Everything is heightened to the maximum.
Nikki Reed

Everything, Unique, Culture

It was Jung who first said to explain the symbol as if talking to a man from mars who knew nothing about our life on earth.
Henry Reed

Life, Nothing, Said

It bugs me that people think my songs are personal because it means I have to explain myself all the time.
Ray LaMontagne

Time, Personal, Means

We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself.
Goldwin Smith

Mind, Everything, May

I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.
Charlotte Gainsbourg

Someone, Why, Difficult

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.
Simon Callow

Religion, Human, Situation

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

Yourself, Loneliness, Lonely

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, Off

If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.
Ed Harris

Job, Here, Able

The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.
Roberto Unger

Away, Treasure, Scientist

When we imagine our Universe to be just one out of a multitude of possible worlds we devalue this world, the one we see, the one we should be trying to explain.
Roberto Unger

Trying, Universe, Possible

There's no excuse, it's just an opportunity that presented in a limited way and that happened and as soon as the press rang me I didn't deny it I just said 'that's it' and I had to go home and explain it.
John Prescott

Home, Said, Happened

You might call me a tech intermediary. I know how to talk to the people in Silicon Valley and then take that information and explain it to everyone else.
Marc Ostrofsky

Else, Talk, Everyone

I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not.
Kazuo Ishiguro

Time, Book, Different

I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence reduced - that Alan Dershowitz used to have my sentence - it came down eventually to eight years.
Jim Bakker

Book, Down, Write

How do you explain certain physical qualities that somehow sell on screen? You're born with it... Certain people are just more watchable, and I was more watchable, but I don't think I understood acting or drama very well when I was a kid.
Joan Chen

Acting, Born, Kid

The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began.
Phillip E. Johnson

Life, Nature, Science

Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place.
Phillip E. Johnson

Human, Place, Within

Any time they try to describe the tsunami to us, I am so touched by how high they look in the air, when they explain it with their hands-they go so high.
Connie Sellecca

Time, Try, High

I've occasionally wished I had Caller ID. Even telemarketers, I hate to hang up on them. I try to explain I'm not interested, but they have all these canned responses so I end up having to hang up on them anyway.
John Shelton Reed

Now Speaker Gingrich says interesting and insightful things. He can explain them well. On many occasions he also says outrageous things that come from nowhere and he has a tendency to say them at exactly the time when they most undermine the conservative agenda.
Jim Talent

Time, Says, Nowhere

Yes, it's a very difficult thing to do, to promote a record, do television shows, and to still want to remain private, it's really quite difficult to explain to people what you're trying to do. I mean I'd actually quite like to be a recluse, but you know, you've got to promote the record as well.
Chris Lowe

Mean, Trying, Difficult

I cannot explain something that no one has ever figured out.
Chris Noth

Cannot, Figured

It always weirds me out and makes me unhappy that some people think I'm Justin. I'm not. People can be talking to me and I know they think they are talking to Justin. It's hard to explain.
Randy Harrison

Hard, Makes, Unhappy

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