Mainstream dictionary definitions reduce racism to racial prejudice and the personal actions that result. But this definition does little to explain how racial hierarchies are consistently reproduced.
Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.
If you start with a good idea, you can encapsulate it in a phrase and explain it. I like high-concept films. Everyone can get hold of it. I don’t think there’s any harm in that at all.
The energy of the crowd is insane. Twenty thousand people. It’s the biggest jolt of adrenaline. It’s very hard to explain. You know the old story about the woman lifting the car off her kid? It’s in that realm. You can actually hurt yourself and not know it.
There are movies I’ve seen or books I’ve read that attach themselves in a way that’s greater than the ability to understand why. How do you explain that kind of connectedness?
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.
I am not excited about Bitcoin. I think it’s an outrage that, in an era of global warming, there are racks of servers next to the Columbia River. I wish I could explain to the salmon that we’ve created a dam generating hydroelectric power so that we can generate a fake currency.
I think it’s crucial to go out and explain to people who you are and where you come from, your hardships – that’s the kind of stuff I connect to.
So often corporate America, business America, are the worst communicators, because all they understand are facts, and they cannot tell a story. They know how to explain their quarterly results, but they don’t know how to explain what they mean.
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.
You just start going through that process of trying to put together a cast that works. I don’t know that I can explain it in a way that you can go, ‘Oh.’ It’s a little bit like saying, ‘How would he be with him? How does that feel?’
Throughout ‘Doris,’ and while I was recording it, you could hear I was apprehensive towards everything. I can’t explain it. It wasn’t fun; it was like I had to do it.
Someone is going to have to explain to me at some time how raising taxes on job-creators is going to create more jobs.
Beginning in 1986, a series of field experiments were designed to test the various hypotheses which had been put forth to explain the Antarctic ozone hole.
The wonderful thing about maths is it’s a totally logical subject, and a pathway has been marked out. I think a lot of these things can be crystallised in something quite essential, that people can get. If I can’t explain it, I realise that’s probably because I don’t completely understand it myself.
Even though I knew my way around Facebook, Twitter terrified me. RT? OH? Hootsuite? Huh? My Twitter-savvy friends attempted to explain what a hashtag was, but, still mystified, I signed up for an online Twitter 101 class. Yes. I’m geeky like that.
I love Milan, and I’m not just saying that. It’s a city that gives me a great sense of euphoria. I can’t explain why, but I feel a special energy there.
I like to follow the training session with my voice. To call at them and explain my reasons and my ideas of football. It’s important to make them understand: when to move, to time it right, not wrong – the right movement.
Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explain whales?
All players have ‘ordinary’ periods in their career and it’s hard to explain why. So at these times, its all about self belief, hard work and hopefully you get the break and your form returns.
The reason why I’m here today is to explain why I am running and what I will do if you give me the honor and the privilege of representing you in the United States Senate. Now I’m running for the United State Senate for a simple reason, and that is… I want to win a Nobel Peace prize.
Luke James has this mystique about him that’s not something you can explain; you can only experience it. He’s got a whole D’Angelo feel to him as well.
Directions are instructions given to explain how. Direction is a vision offered to explain why.
ISIS may be a perversion of Islam, but Islamic it is, just as Christian beliefs about the sanctity of the unborn child explain why some Christian fundamentalists attack abortion clinics and doctors.
Sometimes I implant thoughts, sometimes I extract thoughts, but I don’t like to explain it too much. It’s based on science, deduction, and reasoning – it’s a bit like what ‘Sherlock’ does, except that’s a dramatised version. I look at every clue around me.
We need a new model: If you can’t explain it, you can’t sell it.
I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and pulling their hair because I was there. It was weird. Nobody deserves adulation like that. I tried to explain it to my kids once. I said, ‘Mommy used to be kind of cool, kind of like a Britney Spears.’
My whole premise has been, right from the beginning, that it would take me a lifetime to learn to explain myself as an artist. As you grow older, you learn what to do and what to leave out. You kind of simplify your work and get the same thing done with fewer strokes. It’s pretty interesting to me.
I’ve always been interested in a lot of things, and a lot of things at the same time, and I always tried to explain them to myself. I ask a lot of questions.
There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
I’m not sure a lot of companies know their story, or can explain why they exist and who they are, without just spewing just corporate speech.
Sure, women sportswriters look when they’re in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?
No one ever taught me and I can’t teach anyone. If you can’t explain it, how can you take credit for it?
We are working women. Also, we have the problem of children, of men, to take care of our houses, so many things. I try to explain that in my clothes. They are clothes for everyday life. That is the real life of woman.
Like so many Boomers, I saw ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ in 1962 when it was first released and when we were young teenagers. I’m not quite sure why – I really wish some psychologist would explain this – but that movie had a tremendous effect on many of us.
It takes about three times as long to explain to someone why you won’t give them an autograph as it does to actually give them an autograph.
I can’t really explain what it’s like to be in love, but I feel like it’s being comfortable. It’s almost like having a best friend. It’s a beautiful thing.
Women always think that I’m Chandler, so if I don’t joke around for half an hour, they think that something’s wrong. Then I explain that I don’t have comedy writers scripting everything I’m saying at this particular dinner.
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.
They didn’t act like people and they didn’t act like actors. It’s hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.
Endurance training is so mental. You just do it. You just can, and you just will, and you just run that far because, you know, I get tired at the first mile. I feel heavy and all of those things, but now I have developed, it’s hard to explain… It’s a very satisfying place to get into.
It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn’t.
I don’t thrive in a school or academic environment, I found out. I thrive better in the world outside the small academy because I find it hard to explain what I’m doing.
The positive and negative states of being bring about action. They cause the loss of balance and of happiness. They cause the eternal revolutions – the changes that follow one upon the other. They explain why happiness cannot be achieved in time.
Leonardo Fibonacci, the great 13th century Italian mathematician (1175-1250) created the ‘Fibonacci sequence’ to explain behavior in nature mathematically. History has it that the first question he posed was how many rabbits would be created in one year starting with one pair.
With my husband, I do really appreciate the fact that we – even though we’re different kinds of Asian, there is a cultural shorthand between us, and I don’t have to explain anything. I’ve dated guys before who weren’t Asian-American, and it frustrated me when I would have to defend why beans belong in a dessert.
I keep trying to explain to people that the archetype of intelligence is not Dustin Hoffman in ‘The Rain Man;’ it is a human being, period. It is squishy things that explode in a vacuum, leaving footprints on their moon.
Those of us engaged in the practice of science come to feel a certain reverence for it, engendered by its demonstrable power to dissect, clarify, and explain what previously was unexplainable, and thus to improve the human condition.
