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I loved it, it's such fun. I like that people are seeing it and then talking about it. Like when I took my son and his friends to see Napoleon Dynamite last year, we spent the next six weeks trying to explain it.

The moment you have massive social and political commentary trying to explain a phenomenon, then you know we are no longer dealing with a strictly psychiatric question.

I just love cake, confetti cake, to be specific. It has little colored candies inside the cake, and then you get the confetti icing, which is really hard to find sometimes. It's really hard to explain to people, because it's not icing with sprinkles on top. It's icing that actually has candies inside of it. It's Funfetti icing.

Everyone on the Left has a favorite story that allows them to kind of excuse Reagan, explain away Reagan, say he was dumb, but unless we reckon with that kind of emotional intelligence and his ability to kind of speak to the aspirations of the American people, the less liberals are going to be able to understand the soul of his appeal.

I've had experiences in my life that leave no doubt in my mind about the fact that God exists. I'm quite willing to debate people who don't think so because I want them to explain to me how did our solar system get so organized and how is the universe so complex and yet well-organized that we can predict 70 years hence when a comet is coming?

The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.

You have to be talented. You have to work hard; you have to get the right pieces flowin' for you at the right time. And that's just what happened to me. I can't explain what happened.

I love 'Sunday in the Park with George.' I saw that when I was just, just starting theater school, and I remember singing 'Finishing the Hat' or at least reading the lyrics to 'Finishing the Hat' and other songs from 'Sunday in the Park with George' to my mom to try to explain why I wanted to be an artist.

Many philosophers say it's impossible to explain our conscious experience in scientific, biological terms at all. But that's not exactly true. Scientists have explained why we have certain experiences and not others. It's just that they haven't explained the special features of consciousness that philosophers care about.

Because the theory of quantum mechanics could explain all of chemistry and the various properties of substances, it was a tremendous success. But still there was the problem of the interaction of light and matter.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

I wanted to make a film about my dad, a sort of love letter, and explain what I understood of his cinema, which was so utopian. I also wanted to give the sense of his cinema, because they have never been very big box-office, but they were very influential.

Physicists explain creation by telling us that the universe began with the Big Bang, an intense energy singularity that continued expanding. But who created the singularity?

I entered the health care debate in response to a statement in the United States press in summer 2009 which claimed the National Health Service in Great Britain would have killed me off, were I a British citizen. I felt compelled to make a statement to explain the error.

Women right now kind of have this idea of success - putting your career first and then having kids. On one side, it's perfect and it's a great plan, but on the other side, they don't explain to you that after age 35, you start losing eggs.

I can't consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

The job of the president of the United States is to talk to the public, is to explain to them. Now, some presidents talk too much, like Bill Clinton. Some presidents try to talk but don't know how, like George Bush senior.

More than 170 flags will fly on the south lawn of the White House today as a way to visually and symbolically explain that the world is coming together to fight this threat to civilization and to freedom.

My advice to you is this. Keep your famous good humor, take your time, and explain the procedural posture of the cases and exactly how you ruled as a judge, or the position you took as a lawyer. Americans know these matters are often complex and will appreciate your answers.

One of the reasons it's so important to me is it has allowed me to reach out to youngsters, explain to them where we came from, what we did, why the game was so important. We could compete with anybody. They can win as well and do anything they want to do if they want to do it bad enough.

My understanding is the coroner thought it appropriate that he be given the opportunity to explain his part of the story.

One of the other things I like about the April program is it gives me a chance to talk some to the audience. In researching this, I found some interesting connections between these pieces. During the time ragtime was popular, it was a world-wide craze. Brahms wrote some, and so did Stravinsky. In fact, the last thing Stravinsky wrote before 'A Soldier's Tale' was a ragtime piece, and that helps explain the quirky style of that piece.

One of the main purposes is to explain why the studies found in the literature have such divergent results.

One of the biggest complaints readers have about my work is that I don't tell them often enough what they can do. I do think this is an area where journalism sometimes falls short. We describe a really grim situation but don't really explain to people what they can do about it.

NCAR is now embarking on a focused series of computer experiments capable of resolving thunderstorms and the details of tropical cyclones, ... The results will help explain the observed intensity changes and extend them to realistic climate change scenarios.

I wish I could explain it. Everybody wishes they knew the secret.

I wish I could explain it. I really do. We don't bring much full-court pressure. We do one trip here and one trip there. We don't do it four or five trips in a row. Things just kind of fell our way. (Akron-Wayne) just missed some shots. Once we get the lead, we play so much better. We're more at ease when we're in the lead. It just took us a while to get to that point.

I wish I could explain it. We have somebody new show up every night. We've had 14 different starting lineups. We just plug them in till something works.

I wish I could explain what happened. Nothing seemed to be where I wanted it and it was after Holliday's at-bat that it seemed to change.

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.

If we going to sell this to the public, we are going to have explain how these dollars are going to be used.

One thing about Shanksville, you don't have to explain to people where its located,

I would have to have someone kind of do the math for me and tell me, explain to me, how it would be a better deal. Show me how it would lower my monthly payment, ... Any change would be welcome.

When I asked Kellogg's to explain why their cereal bags are so hard to open, at first they seemed responsive, and sent an e-mail saying they'd assigned someone to help me. But the next thing I knew they told me they just didn't have the manpower to address it and were going to take a pass.

My father told me it was not a job, that I wouldn't make a living at tennis, ... The toughest part was trying to explain to him that I could be the first one from Morocco to do it. But he didn't want me to play. We didn't talk for a year. That was when I knew I couldn't fail. I had to show him it was the right decision. It was a great motivation.

Like I said earlier, I don't know how to explain it. It's something we have to turn around. We're putting ourselves behind the eight ball at the start of the game and it's not working for us. We have to figure out something.

Like any recruit, when we talk to them individually, we explain where they're going to fit in so they understand exactly what it is we expect of them, ... And when I recruit kids, the main thing is if they'll be a good fit to the program, and with these two that was an easy decision.

One of the things we least understand is why animals evolved so late in Earth history. Why did animals wait until the 11th hour, whereas evidence for more primitive life dates back billions of years? One of the best bets to explain the difference is an increase in oxygen concentration in the atmosphere.

No one fundamental reason can explain this whopping fall, ... There is concern that demand, particularly from the airline industry, could fall. There are clear recessionary concerns.

Of course, if there are people who need to get that money refunded, then we will work to get that done. For those in Louisiana, especially in Baton Rouge, we're going to offer a presale opportunity for the Baton Rouge games. In our communication with them, we will explain what we are proposing.

Of course not. I'm the commander. See, I don't have to explain why I say things ... I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation.

My daughter's pretty upset about the moving. It's hard to explain it to a 7-year-old.

My first gig ever was writing looplines for a movie that had already been made. You know, writing lines over somebody's back to explain something, to help make a connection, to add a joke, or to just add babble because the people are in frame and should be saying something.

Maybe John Kerry does not know - but I am happy to explain it to him - that my commitment to withdraw the troops goes back before the tragic, dramatic terrorist attack.

Maybe the owner's on the front porch wondering why you are here. And we have to explain to them we got a call to their house and they don't know where it came from. It's somebody's idea of a joke. It's not funny to us.

My father, Abe, was a small businessman. For 32 years, he ran an exterminating company. That may explain why our family always associated the smell of roach spray with love.

Nothing can explain it. You just sit around in disbelief for a while. And then you think of his family.

Nothing is going to clear his client of what took place here, ... He will never be able to explain a 16-year-old, or any person, in custody slammed on the police car, punched in the face when he's helpless. There is no explanation for that.

needs to do a prime time broadcast when people are watching. He does need to explain this to the American people.

need to do more to explain the true dimension of what is at stake, and the nature of the solutions which only Europe can bring.

Obesity is a very complex disease, and this metabolic pathway does not fully explain obesity, but it is a likely contributor.

Obesity is a very complex disease, and this metabolic pathway probably does not fully explain obesity, but we now know that SCD1 is at least a very important contributor.

Obviously, I would love to play and come back and finish and hopefully prove to everyone I can still play at a high level, that I can still be productive and do it the right way, which I've always done, ... I am not going to shy away from what happened to me. I am going to face it. Hopefully, I can explain myself one day, and whether people believe me or not, I can't control that.

Obviously it was not the ruling we expected. We believe we were acting in the best interest of the students, the School Board and the taxpayers, and we'll continue to make our case and explain our actions.

. . . people will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women is politics.

Pete Sessions now has a responsibility to explain why he became an advocate for Malaysia after this trip, whereas before he had shown no interest at all.

Right now, it just does not make sense to us that a piece of debris is the root cause to explain the loss of the Columbia crew. There has got to be another reason.

I didn't do a commentary on the DVD, which people were maybe surprised by. To be honest, my feeling is that commentaries are very tricky because I feel like the audience completes the film, and until a film gets out there you almost don't know exactly what it is that you've done. You have to do commentaries these days before the movie is even in theaters, so I wanted to hold off and instead just have them use the material that we generated during production to explain our intentions.

I don't have much of a clue what's gotten into me. It's a great feeling but I can't really explain it.

I don't how to explain how I feel right now, I am pretty excited. The kids worked their butts off all week. They played four straight days and every day they have been at practice at 11:30 every day and worked for an hour and half. I am so proud of them. I think they wanted it more.

I don't have any details. And if I did know anything, I'm not sure I would know how to explain it to you.

I don't feel like I'm doing anything differently. I couldn't explain what's going on other than I'm hitting the ball hard and they're going out of the ballpark. That's all I can tell you.

I have had numerous interviews with reporters who called looking for quotes about tech bargains. I always explain that we believe the best values today are in growing companies outside of the technology sector....To these reporters, it defies common sense that stocks that have declined 80 percent or more are not yet 'values.' That is a testament to how powerful and unprecedented the technology mania was. Even after such large price declines, most of these stocks are still not cheap.

I have heard of many occasions when academics rely on children to explain why a game works and then rely on their own area of specialisation to analyse the game.

If we continue to live in the past and explain the past and present with a pessimistic conception of history, populism will spread and hinder the development of the entire nation and the society.

If this is true, it's another slap at South Dakota farmers and ranchers from the Bush administration, ... There's no substitute for the face-to-face interaction that producers have with FSA personnel. They need the opportunity to ask questions, to explain their circumstances. To lose that opportunity is going to be a serious problem.

I don't know what happened. I can't even begin to explain it. I wasn't pressing. I thought I was relaxed, but it kept popping out of my hands. I've never had a game like that.

I don't know what happened on that goal. (The officials) didn't explain it to us.

I don't know the answer, but I do believe that people's observations are very difficult to discount - even if we can't explain them.

I don't know what they shot, but we're a defensive team and should have had it on that end tonight. I really don't know how to explain it, except to say we weren't ready on that end.

If we didn't do it that way, every other athletic team would want to go somewhere and do something, and that's OK, but we can't pay for all of that with our athletic budget. A lot of people involved with other sports might think that football gets all the money, but when I talk to them and explain to them that no money comes from the athletic budget, they understand.

If they're (cities) desirable places to live, ... it can explain a sustained high house price for years to come.

If they don't put Michael Heath on the defensive to make him explain why he's defending bigotry and hatred and discrimination, this is going to be all about marriage,

Many of these people may have separated before the divorce became official, which would help explain why wealth starts falling so early. Divorce is often a long and messy process, and you can see this in the four-year decline in wealth.

Last year, we saw him have a couple starts like that, and I don't know how to explain it. I know he has good stuff and that he's a competitor, and he's one of those guys who, when he's pitching, everybody wants to help play and win. Sometimes things don't add up.

There are only three million people in Uruguay, but there is such hunger for glory: you'll do anything to make it; you have that extra desire to run, to suffer. I can't explain our success, but I think that's a reason.

When we see significant, dramatic changes ... we are skeptical as indeed we should be, ... bring together all of the facts we can marshal and the most sophisticated insights to explain those facts that we can.

When you ask somebody if they'd rather have an event live or on tape, they're answer is, of course they'd rather have it live, ... When you explain to them that to have it live on the West Coast, it may be on at 5 o'clock, which means that they won't be available to view it, they'll go, 'Oh, well then I'd rather have it on tape.'

We're just fragile right now. Wish I could explain why.

We're constantly working together. We explain what kind of surface, thick or thin, we want.

Let me explain what I do here. I don't want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary.

Let's say she were to do well enough in women's events she's going to be playing this winter and spring that if she were a member, her earnings would be such that she would be exempt. I think you'd be hard-pressed to explain why you wouldn't allow her to play.

Mr. Harper's trip didn't do much. At this point, not enough has happened to explain to people why we happen to be there and to really justify the type of sacrifice they are being asked to make.

Since I?m the most experienced guy, most of the players look at me. I have to take the time to explain the little aspects, like going out and giving your hardest effort on every play. You have to be tougher than your opponent on every play.

Medtronic I think is a great way to play sort of everyone getting older, as they say, the aging baby boom. They have a new product out that was approved last winter. It does two different things. An implantable device, and I'm not sure I'd explain it all well enough, but it's the next generation from the old pacemakers. And they have just over the past week implanted that for the first time in a patient and that's a whole great new product cycle about to start.

(McGrady) played super hard today. He just doesn't make (shots) at home like he makes on the road. I can't explain it. We don't have an inside presence right now (without Yao) to throw the ball into to keep the defense honest. He's trying to make a lot of tough shots while playing big minutes.

She has a cool personality. She does not easily express her emotions. That may explain why people have difficulty identifying with her.

She just rises to the occasion. She just goes all out ... you can't really explain it.

She knows the sport. She can talk to him, explain our position and find out why he is thinking like that.

She could not explain in so many words, but she felt that those who prepare for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

Many times, we spend so much time on policy, but we don't explain how the policy affects and makes the heart even grow bigger. And I think that's a place that we have to look inside.

Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.

Signs were not posted to explain the detour. Thousands of vehicles had to make multiple lane merges and no one was there to help the process. Then the detour narrowed to a one-lane road through a business district.

Severe weather conditions and uncertainty over interest rates may help explain why the rise in the indicators was cut short.

She slapped him, she was very rough with him, ... She was dropping some toys on his head and watching them fall off. She shook him up and down very vigorously. I was hysterical. I mean, there is no way to explain how I was. I just wanted it to stop.

She said she didn't know how to explain it any other way, and she was getting frustrated.

So many of the problems we deal with are preventable. But we try to work things out and explain to the students that they don't want to get in even more trouble in the future. I like talking to them and finding an answer.

The prime minister has to make a little bit more of an effort to explain things, to be more precise and explain to us what he wants to talk about, with whom, and when.

We might ask you in a notice or a letter to explain your answer on something but it would be very unlikely for us to ask you your Social Security number because we already know it.