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Quotes About Clarification

A Mrs. Hipp said vehemently that I had insulted her by implying that she, along with other white members of the committee, had come to the meeting with a closed mind. I tried to make it clear that my statement applied only to those people whose public pronouncements were antiNegro, and not to the committee as a whole, but to no avail. They continued to look at me as though I were the cause of the stalemate.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
But anger expressed and translated into action in the service of our vision and our future is a liberating and strengthening act of clarification, for it is in the painful process of this translation that we identify who are our allies with whom we have grave differences, and who are our genuine enemies.
~ Audre Lorde
Lindsay [Doran] goes round the table and introduces everyone -- making it clear that I am present in the capacity of writer rather than actress, therefore no one has to be too nice to me.
~ Emma Thompson
The domain experts had learned more and had clarified the goal of the application.
~ Eric Evans
Speakers are expected to make clear that they are expressing their own views and not those of the Committee as a whole.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
I remember I was at a press conference where somebody came up to me with absolute confidence, like he knew me forever, and whispered in my ear, 'You should sing a song now. The Indian audience will enjoy it. Your songs will improve India and Pakistan's relations.' I clarified to him that I wasn't Ali Zafar.
~ Ali Fazal
Kansas City, Missouri, not Kansas City, Kansas. There's a difference.
~ Gillian Flynn
For those of you who worry that I am a skinhead and anything that goes along with that, I am not.
~ Mark Zupan
I suppose what's happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things that I point out. For instance I have a section of the book where I talk about the possibility of torture.
~ Peter Singer
Of course, I didn't say all that. Maybe I should have.
~ Barack Obama
It is foolish to hold against me remarks that I never made.
~ Nicolas Anelka
Darcy, the heroine of 'Something Blue,' is quite shallow and opinionated. At one point, she commented that she dislikes 'gingers,' i.e., men with red hair. I received several emails from fiery redheads who said they were offended by 'my' comments. I had to remind them that it is fiction.
~ Emily Giffin
mansplaining.
~ Bill O'Reilly
Part of my problem is that I cannot dispel the myths that have somehow accumulated over the years. Somebody writes something, it's completely off the wall, but it gets filed and repeated until everyone believes it. For instance, I've read that I wear a football helmet in the car.
~ Stanley Kubrick
Confusion helps. Confusion leads to lengthy reconstruction and clarification and exposition and several other ions.
~ Harlan Coben
Since we want not emancipation from impulse but clarification of impulse, the duty of rhetoric is to bring together action and understanding into a whole that is greater than scientific perception.
~ Richard M. Weaver
The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite.
~ Simon Singh
What did you do?
~ Maya Banks
Congress should clarify that a sitting president is not subject to criminal indictment while in office.
~ Brett Kavanaugh
I don't think I ate bat. I definitely didn't intentionally eat bat.
~ Guy Sebastian
Please help me out of this. My mother fakes being me on Phone. Greetings, Ozan Bülbül. Send someone to meet me at 3 Pm at düdüklü in 6 days, and clarify things, and getting me out of this. Im also known as "the OZ".
~ Boris Johnson
How sorry he was if anything he'd done had created the impression that he might be a killer.
~ Sophie Hannah
Hans Fabermann insisted that 'mining', his only business, was not to be misinterpreted as being a cranial enterprize:
~ Francis M. Faber Jr.
Sometimes how I explain myself to the media can come across in a slightly different way to how I would mean to say things.
~ Ian Poulter