We’ve collected the best Understand Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Andy Warhol, Robert Smith, Jonathan Winters, Labrinth, Tara Westover. Use them as an inspiration.
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Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
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One of the nice things about getting older is that you come to understand that you can integrate multiple aspects of your life together. When you’re young, you think everything has to be binary, as that’s exactly how you feel at that age.
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Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.
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As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform.
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People don’t seem to understand that the separation of powers is not about the power of these branches; it’s there to protect individual liberty – it’s there to protect us from the concentration of power.
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Every smart person that I admire in the world, and those I semi-fear, is focused on this concept of crypto for a reason. They understand that this is the driving force of the fourth industrial revolution: steam engine, electricity, then the microchip – blockchain and crypto is the fourth.
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I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions.
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I think you need to go through some stuff to really appreciate life and understand what it means to persevere, overcome and have faith. I think those tough times make you a stronger person.
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I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‘fat cat’ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‘public-spirited philanthropist‘.
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I say you don’t need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful.
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The nicknames – people say they couldn’t understand it, but look, I have really enjoyed my time away from 3AW, and I have discovered one thing – that I am more than just a yelling fanatical football follower who makes up nicknames.
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The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence… sort of like the Post Office with tanks.
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I find men odd. I don’t really understand men. I kind of feel like I understand women better than I do men, really.
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If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think that people really need a dose of quality time with one’s self.
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Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn’t do this out of compassion or guilt. It’s done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
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The worst mistake you can make with children is to talk to them in a condescending, patronising way and think that you can teach them something. You have to understand that it is you who will be learning from them. You have to get into their world and see things from their perspective.
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People don’t understand the pressure on me to look perfect.
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I grew up in a household with my mother, who was a Holocaust survivor. I very much understand the mentality that you cannot live in the past. You can’t spend your entire life, or even portions of it, looking back and dwelling on things that have already happened. You have to move forward.
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In the offseason I allow my body to recover, my mind to recover. I like to be with my family, to read books, and know what is going on in the world, to understand how people think.
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A lot of people believe Italian food is tasty because there are a lot of ingredients. But they don’t understand that the reason why it’s tasty is because there are less ingredients than in any other cuisine.
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My father blamed me for my brother Gunther’s death, for not bringing him home. He died in an avalanche as we descended from the summit of Nanga Parbat, one of the 14 peaks over 8,000m, in 1970. Gunther and I did so much together. It was difficult for my father to understand what it was like up there.
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Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.
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I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
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No one has ever seen God. So, for me, it is acceptable that if you don’t understand a thing, just call it God.
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Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.
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There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
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The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.
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There’s the famous quote that if you want to understand how animals live, you don’t go to the zoo, you go to the jungle. The Future Lab has really pioneered that within Lego, and it hasn’t been a theoretical exercise. It’s been a real design-thinking approach to innovation, which we’ve learned an awful lot from.
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I don’t believe in coincidences. I believe that things happen for a reason, and I think God has things – whether it’s good or bad – happen towards a bigger picture that you don’t necessarily understand at the present time.
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You’ve got to be in a bad relationship to really understand what a great one is.
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Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It’s really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition.
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I have been in many countries, and I have found there people examining their own love of life, sense of peril, their own common sense. The one thing they cannot understand is why that same love of life, sense of peril and above all common sense, is not invariably shared among their leaders and rulers.
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I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We’re both Leos, we understand each other.
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There were times when close people… Some of my closest friends have left me. People hurt me, so everything fell apart. I didn’t feel like I had anyone on my side or anyone who could understand me. So that’s why I completely fell apart.
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When young people fall in love, they start to understand my music.
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In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.
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The hardest thing I had to overcome in life? I think racism. That’s so difficult because I don’t think anyone can ever understand it. It’s not that people don’t want to understand it, but they don’t want to touch it.
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Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.
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The avant-garde feel important, but they hardly understand what they’re doing.
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The fact is Canadians understand that immigration, that people fleeing for their lives, that people wanting to build a better life for themselves and their kids is what created Canada, it’s what created North America.
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Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.
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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
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No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn’t understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.
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If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
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Just understand that there’s going to be some ups, there’s going to be some downs.
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Reports in Washington show that our reasoning was just like that of your physicists. With all this information available, at least to privileged persons, I cannot understand why it is generally held in the United States that we completely missed the basic principle of the bomb until after Hiroshima.
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Our responsibility in life is not to lie around and wait for things to happen. Our responsibility in life is to work. Life is getting out and getting things done. When people say they’re over-the-hill at age 50, I don’t understand it.
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Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
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People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it’s a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property.
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The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as agreeable as she can by her cheerful countenance and encouraging words of approval. If they fail once, twice, or thrice, censure not.
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If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods. And to do that, we must understand that the quality of life is more important than the standard of living.
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In school, I studied psychology, linguistics, neuroscience. I understand that there is a real lack of respect for the brain.
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I want the world to understand that a Palestinian state means no Israeli state. That’s the equation.
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Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.
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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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The ultimate purpose of economics, of course, is to understand and promote the enhancement of well-being.
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I don’t understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It’s very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.
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In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‘Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.’
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Understand: as children and young adults, we are taught to conform to certain codes of behavior and ways of doing things. We learn that being different comes with a social price.
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I only understand friendship or scorched earth.
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Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
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I like to watch the great players, the ones who are technically good and understand the game. I try to see how they move.
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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.
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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists… When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
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Too few people understand a really good sandwich.
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I can speak English, Portuguese, and a bit of Spanish, or Sportugal. It’s a mix of Portuguese and Spanish. I understand French and Italian, but I can’t speak them.
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I do believe that Muslims and Christians and Jews pray to the same God. And yet they understand who God is in significantly different ways.
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No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
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When explorers first encountered my people, they called us heathens, sun worshippers. They didn’t understand that the sun is a relative and illuminates our path on this earth.
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I loved doing ‘Pennies from Heaven.’ Because you have to understand that I’d been doing comedy for 15 to 20 years, and suddenly along came the opportunity to do this beautiful film. It was so emotional to me. I loved it. I don’t think it was a good career move, but I have no regrets about doing it.
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Music is the way I understand how to communicate now, the way that I’ve learned how to communicate… but it will eventually have to go beyond that. You see, I’ve realised that music is not what keeps people involved – it’s the attitude behind the music.
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Many people don’t understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz… And that is really the idea of democracy – freedom within the Constitution or discipline. You don’t just get out there and do anything you want.
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Liquid architecture. It’s like jazz – you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it’s a way of – for me, it’s a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.
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My first popular book, ‘A Brief History of Time,’ aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.
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Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
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I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.
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You gotta understand, my great-grandfather was German and Irish. My grandmother was Indian, and my grandfather was African-American, so we all got a little something in us.
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I think it’s important to understand that in the big historical context of things, there has been land degradation from civilisation since the beginning of history. I mean, the Rajputana desert in India is a manmade desert caused by overgrazing.
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We’re living with the Arabs; we have to understand them… Through knowing the Arabs, you know yourself better.
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When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.
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In Afghanistan, you don’t understand yourself solely as an individual. You understand yourself as a son, a brother, a cousin to somebody, an uncle to somebody. You are part of something bigger than yourself.
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We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.
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Some people see life as many steps up and try to forget where they are coming from, you understand? A little step in life on a commercial or a material level is a good step, but a big step does not mean a strong step – you tend to lose your roots – and if you don’t be careful, you can fall.
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I am not a Somali representative. I am not a Muslim representative. I am not a millennial representative. I am not a woman representative. I am a representative who happens to have all of these marginalized identities and can understand the intersectionality of all of them in a very unique way.
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But life inevitably throws us curve balls, unexpected circumstances that remind us to expect the unexpected. I’ve come to understand these curve balls are the beautiful unfolding of both karma and current.
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Looking good and feeling like death is a difficult combination for people to understand.
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When I prepare for a role, I try to get inside the character’s head and understand him.
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Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
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The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we’re a long, long ways from that.
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Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
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To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history.
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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful.
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Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
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I have a lot of fans who are people of color. I think, if nothing else, I kind of understand that sense of being on the outside looking in, culturally.
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Our school not only makes you an actor, it makes you understand who you actually are as well… it gives you discipline and punctuality. It also teaches you a way of life.
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The liberals can understand everything but people who don’t understand them.
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You do get to a certain point in life where you have to realistically, I think, understand that the days are getting shorter, and you can’t put things off thinking you’ll get to them someday. If you really want to do them, you better do them. There are simply too many people getting sick, and sooner or later you will.
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The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that’s good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day.
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I don’t want to be understood because if people understand me, they get tired of me.
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All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with the creative side.
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Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That’s a noble cause, and that’s where we should be heading. But once we get past that – once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with – when we start thinking about the future, there’s an opportunity to create some new life-forms.
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I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
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And I’ve always said, ‘If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn’t necessary.’ We need to be able to understand that if we’re going to make real progress.
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Good listeners have a huge advantage. For one, when they engage in conversation, they make people ‘feel’ heard. They ‘feel’ that someone really understands their wants, needs and desires. And for good reason; a good listener does care to understand.
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The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
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We don’t understand the equity market well, and so we deploy funds in fixed-income securities, and like any other securities, investment in those securities also need to follow the mark-to-market accounting principle.
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To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.
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To grow you must understand and admit your mistakes, it is an approach that works for me, it is not necessarily the same for everyone.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.
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Exile is like death. You cannot understand it until it happens to you.
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By far, the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.
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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.
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When we understand the connection between how we live and how long we live, it’s easier to make different choices. Instead of viewing the time we spend with friends and family as luxuries, we can see that these relationships are among the most powerful determinants of our well-being and survival.
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Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn’t mean having read a few art history books.
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I think it’s a very important collaboration between the conductor and the orchestra – especially when the conductor is one more member of the orchestra in the way that you are leading, but also respecting, feeling and building the same way for all the players to understand the music.
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Nobody has really tried to understand me or my behaviour, which just reflected my decision to enjoy life to the full.
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One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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There are many things that I don’t understand.
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Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President’s widow?
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You have to understand what caused genocide to happen. Or it will happen again.
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It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.
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I don’t speak Spanish, and I get so much crap for it. Oddly enough, it was the first language I learned, but somehow I lost it throughout the years. I can understand pieces of it, but I don’t speak it. I need to speak it. I want to teach my kids Spanish.
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Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they’re fun, they do things together, they’re best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they’re going to respect Mom.
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We only understand that which already is within us.
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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it’s a painting, and if you can walk around it it’s a sculpture.
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The artist’s role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That’s how I see it. Otherwise, I don’t know why you do it.
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Definitely working on ‘Deal or No Deal’ was a learning experience, and it helped me to understand what I would rather be doing.
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The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, ‘I’m not interested,’ or you’re unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don’t understand that, and I think it’s rude. You’re at Grandma‘s house, you eat what Grandma serves you.
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In youth we learn; in age we understand.
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The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.
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Nothing happens by itself… it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
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It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow‘s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
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When it comes to tyrants, dictators and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand.
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Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that’s their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.
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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
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My biggest skill is common sense. I understand life.
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I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It’s a gift you give yourself.
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Data is powerful and if it’s put in the wrong hands, it becomes a weapon. And we have to understand that companies like Facebook, and platforms like Facebook or Twitter, are not just social networking sites. They’re opportunities for information warfare.
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If you don’t understand yourself you don’t understand anybody else.
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America’s real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable.
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Sustainable development is a fundamental break that’s going to reshuffle the entire deck. There are companies today that are going to dominate in the future simply because they understand that.
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But I do believe in the paranormal, that there are things our brains just can’t understand.
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It’s never going to be a smooth sailing ship, there’s going to be ups and downs and I think one of the most important things to understand is not to ride the highs too high and ride the lows too low – it is a marathon and if you can just try to steady the ship as you go.
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I had done some flimflam movies, but I didn’t understand what being an actor meant anymore.
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I wish for a world where people understand that life is short. So today’s the time to do big things.
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When it comes to our relationship with loneliness, specifically, it’s important to understand how our relative introversion or extroversion informs our preference for social interaction.
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To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
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As a keeper, you have to understand that your job is black and white: you make a save, or you don’t; you can be the hero – or the goat.
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Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we actually have to understand that it’s cooperation versus competition.
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Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.
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I don’t get Twitter or social media. I really don’t understand it or read it. I see it as a distraction.
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Cricket makes no sense to me. I find it beautiful to watch and I like that they break for tea. That is very cool, but I don’t understand. My friends from The Clash tried to explain it years and years ago, but I didn’t understand what they were talking about.
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I just want to say to women, ‘Be yourself – it’s the inner beauty that counts. You are your own best friend, the key to your own happiness, and as soon as you understand that – and it takes a few heartbreaks – you can be happy.’
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We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.
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One of my biggest pet peeves is when a guy’s wearing flip-flop sandals, which I don’t understand. Men’s feet are disgusting to begin with, but now they’re on display when I try to go out for a nice steak at a restaurant, and I have to sit there and look at some guy’s hoof? I don’t get it. I don’t understand it.
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To realize the American dream, the most important thing to understand is that it belongs to everybody. It’s a human dream. If you understand this and work very hard, it is possible.
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I feel that people are basically trying to do their best in the world. Even when you see people making mistakes, you understand why they’re making a mistake. Everybody has flaws, everybody has demons, everybody has ghosts, but I think you watch people and you see everybody trying to do their best.
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By bringing out into the public domain how human institutions actually behave, we can understand frankly, to a degree, for the first time the civilization that we actually have.
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Many people do not understand that business investment is a critical prosperity-booster, leading to more jobs, higher wages, and stronger family income. Put another way, rising tax and regulatory burdens that penalize investors and businesses also punish middle-income wage earners.
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There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil‘s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.
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The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.
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I don’t fear death because I don’t fear anything I don’t understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.
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Life is very, very simple and easy to understand, but we complicate it with the beliefs and ideas that we create.
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Life throws you curveballs and there are things that happen – you don’t understand why they happened at the time. But then you step back and understand you’re a better fighter and competitor because of the things that happened.
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Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
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I don’t understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
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Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.
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Dog parks can be a fantastic way to socialize your dog, but it’s important for owners to understand that a dog park isn’t exercise and isn’t a substitute for walk. A visit to the dog park is fun – play time.
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One way to understand human progress is to look at how technology has made products and services – once reserved for the elite – progressively more accessible and affordable.
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The most important thing is to have a good relationship with the bike… you have to understand what she wants. I think of a motorcycle as a woman, and I know that sounds silly, but it’s true.
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If you don’t understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance. The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.
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He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
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One of the things I’m trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways to understand the complexity of the world. I think what mythology does is impress upon chaotic experience the patterns, hierarchies and shapes which allow us to interpret the chaos and make fresh sense of it.
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LeBron James has proven he can lead by example. My wish for LeBron is to understand the following: He’s an exceptional leader because he leads by example. The next step on the road to Legend, which he’s already on, is to trust he’s the best player in the best system anywhere in basketball.
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.
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The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
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One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.
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Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.
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The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don’t understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
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I do realise and understand very well on a profound level how lucky I am and what a privileged position it is and what it’s done ultimately for me, my family and my kids. But at the same time, there are moments in a man’s life when you just kind of want to feel somewhat normal.
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My generation, we’re so smart and opinionated, and we know the world we want to live in; we know the future we want. We’re such a liberal, forward-thinking generation that’s been held back by an older generation that doesn’t understand it, doesn’t want the world to progress quickly because of old ideologies.
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.
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Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
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I have lexical-gustatory synesthesia. I can taste, and always have tasted, words. I remember when I was a kid and learning to read I mentioned to my mom that certain words I was learning tasted certain ways, thinking everyone was like that, and didn’t understand why she didn’t get what I was saying.
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Time travel and teleportation will have to wait. It may take centuries to master these technology. But within the coming decades, we will understand dark matter, perhaps test string theory, find planets which can harbor life, and maybe have Brain 2.0, i.e. our consciousness on a disk which will survive even after we die.
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Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life – all life.
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Teenage years, having gone through it all, I know it’s a rough, rough time, and I would say to accept that message of letting go, letting it happen and accepting that things don’t always happen for a reason, or you may not understand the reason, but it’s all part of the journey, and try to enjoy the ride.
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Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it. This is no less true of steel and concrete.
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There is always that age-old thing about England and America being divided by a common language. You think that because we speak English and you speak English that you’re bound to understand and like everything that we do. And of course you don’t.
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Understand life’s mysteries – as mysteries to be lived.
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To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.
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To understand is to perceive patterns.
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The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don’t understand computers.
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I’ll have you understand I am running this court, and the law hasn’t got a damn thing to do with it!
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If you weren’t with me when I had nothing, then you can’t really understand me.
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I think the secret is really observation. Well, if you observe what’s going on and try to figure out how people are thinking, I think you can always write something that people will understand.
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It’s important to understand how Coinbase thinks about regulation and compliance in the digital currency space. As an exchange, we view compliance as key to digital currency’s success.
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I want to make sure that people understand that, behind this national conversation around transgender rights, there are real people who hurt when they’re mocked, who hurt when they’re discriminated against, and who just want to be treated with dignity and respect.
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Great sculptors and artists spend countless hours perfecting their talents. They don’t pick up a chisel or a brush and palette, expecting immediate perfection. They understand that they will make many errors as they learn, but they start with the basics, the key fundamentals first.
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Relationships are temporary, and everyone needs to understand that.
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I may not be the most athletic, but I understand the game.
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If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
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Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don’t judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.
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We only fear what we don’t understand, and I hate to be scared.
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It is easy to respect secular Americans who hold fast to the Constitution and to American values generally. And any one of us who believes in God can understand why some people, given all the unjust suffering in the world, just cannot believe that there is a Providential Being.
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To admit regret is to understand that we are fallible – that there are powers beyond us. To admit regret is to lose control not only of a difficult past but of the very story we tell about our present. To admit sincere and abiding regret is one of our greatest but unspoken contemporary sins.
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I don’t only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and… ants. I can understand ants.
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I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.
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The better we understand how identities and power work together from one context to another, the less likely our movements for change are to fracture.
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I don’t understand why God took him and didn’t take me.
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I understand that I’m not perfect. I made mistakes and I had a hand in everything that’s happened to me, good and bad.
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We’re not a racist organization, because we understand that racism is an excuse used for capitalism, and we know that racism is just – it’s a byproduct of capitalism.
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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.
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There’s one thing everyone should understand: I like my character.
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The Queen is frequently on her own, walking the dogs, riding her horses, playing patience, completing a jigsaw, sorting her photograph albums, watching television, phoning friends, doing the Telegraph crossword. Is she neglected? Is she suffering? Or does she simply understand her man?
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I saw ‘The Shining‘ in eighth grade. I watched it on VHS at a sleepover and was petrified, totally petrified. And I didn’t really start to digest the movie properly and understand it from a filmmaking perspective until I got older. But it pretty much defined what it meant to be scared of a movie for me.
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What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.
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If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
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You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
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If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
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Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
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To make an omelette, you need not only those broken eggs but someone ‘oppressed‘ to beat them: every revolutionist is presumed to understand that, and also every woman, which either does or does not make 51 percent of the population of the United States a potentially revolutionary class.
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I don’t really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I’d like to come back as my daughter’s dog.
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I eat a little bit of everything and not a lot of anything. Everything in moderation. I know that’s really hard for people to understand, but I grew up in an Italian family where we didn’t overdo anything. We ate pasta, yes, but not a lot of it.
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President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a ‘set of suggestions.’
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Many people in this world are not raised to understand the concept of consent, in all walks of life, and it’s important that abusers of consent not be treated as victims when they are rightfully exposed.
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I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.
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As an actor, what you dream of is being able to portray people that people empathize with and understand and really feel for.
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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries.
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Here’s what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We’re given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized.
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I like women. I don’t understand them, but I like them.
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Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.
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Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.
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I can speak English. I can speak Hindi. I can understand one or two other languages.
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In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.
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War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
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Being a medical practitioner enables me to get in touch with people, understand their problems, feel sympathetic towards them, and the natural thing is to want to help them, and if you become a politician and if you are successful, you can help them even more.
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You can’t change history. These things happened the way they did. What you can change is how you look at it and how you understand that it takes the good moments and it takes the difficult moments to move forward.
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People don’t understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.
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I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don’t understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in.
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Understand that thoughts are thoughts. If they are unreasonable, reason with them, even if you have no reason left. You are the observer of your mind, not its victim.
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You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you’re held responsible for everything, but you don’t always have control of everything, right?
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Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
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Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one’s government is not necessarily to secure freedom.
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If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don’t understand the problems and you don’t understand the technology.
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We do not fully understand the consequences of rising populations and increasing energy consumption on the interwoven fabric of atmosphere, water, land and life.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.
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He is one of the finest and kindest human beings I have come across. When you meet him, you will understand why he is the Jackie Chan. It’s not just for his work but also the kind of person he is.
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We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.
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Until I went to rehab, I didn’t understand what it did.
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When you really understand who you are, it enables you to fight and believe.
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Someone told me that having a baby is like having your heart walking around outside of your body, and I didn’t understand it until I had a baby. Now, like, everything he does literally crushes my heart. In a great way. And then if he’s in pain, it’s like my whole endeavor is to make sure he’s not in pain.
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Most of my films seem to be about people bewildered by the world around them, who don’t fit into it and are trying to understand it.
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‘Mayabazar’ was the film I immensely loved as a kid. Only when I became a filmmaker about 20 years later did I realise its technical marvel and what a great epic it was. I and my visual effects supervisor, while making ‘Yamadonga,’ took two days to understand the magnification shot of Ghatothkatcha’s persona.
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I understand Twitter has become popular among politicians. This technology allows them to stay in perpetual contact with their constituents. The electorate now has instant information about what politicians have been up to.
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When gasoline and rubber are rationed, electric power and transport facilities are becoming increasingly scarce, and manpower shortages are developing, it is difficult for people to understand their increased use for other than the most vital needs of war.
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A covenant is an agreement between God and His children upon the earth, and it is important to understand that God determines the conditions of all gospel covenants.
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I’m not the only one that people try to put in a box. I think it’s easier for people to understand things when they can categorize them.
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People are afraid of things they don’t understand. They don’t know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.
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UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
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What we don’t understand we can make mean anything.
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You must understand, I don’t have to be happy to be happy.
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You won’t understand me unless you understand that I am an odd ball.
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For most of my life I’ve liked to pretend I live in a starship. Punching in fake codes to get into doorways that obviously are not secure. I love that idea of living on a spaceship. Because essentially we are: a gigantic thing floating in some infinite darkness that’s running on principles that we don’t even understand.
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One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow‘s flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
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The Media is ruled by Satan. But yet I wonder if many Christians fully understand that.
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Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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When a society is stressed, when it comes up against things that are hard to understand, you get a lot of delusional thinking.
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Children are wonderful, but they are not the center of the universe. The sooner their parents make them understand that, the better off we all will be.
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I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.
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You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
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You aren’t going to be successful as a diplomat if you don’t understand the strategic context in which you are actually negotiating. It is not deal making. It’s not.
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If someone says something hurtful to you or makes you feel down on yourself, then you just gotta stay positive and keep moving forward because they might not know much about you, or they may not understand the situation.
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I said a racist word and I can fully understand why people would label me a racist.
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I understand you’ve got to go through tough times to get better.
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A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
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I understand now that my soul is my power, not perfection or my ego. I continue to teach this to my children, despite their glamorous careers. If we can maintain our core values, the exteriors take second place and become a gift, a source of gratitude.
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My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
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I want to make people cry even when they don’t understand my words.
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I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste and, above all else, observe the first maxim of good government: namely, do no avoidable harm.
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Whenever I get negative comments on Twitter, it’s always from girls – often ones who are trying to make it in the media. I don’t understand why we can’t put that energy into uniting and supporting each other instead.
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Women are in a position now to voice their opinion… women are getting empowered. The more power they get, the more voice they get to shift certain things around. Now I have a daughter, I understand. When I didn’t have a daughter, I didn’t understand.
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Because of technologies from space exploration, we can begin to understand our world‘s origins, and our lives are improving. These are the reasons why dedicating a life to the sciences and space exploration is so meaningful and rewarding.
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Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it’s a universal language. You don’t have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.
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Your grief path is yours alone, and no one else can walk it, and no one else can understand it.
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You see, psychologically, Australia must understand it has to live in the region around it. Australia must find its security in Asia; it cannot find its security from Asia.
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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
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There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether you talk about gaming or 20th century classical music, you can’t do it in five minutes. You can’t listen to ‘The Rite of Spring‘ once and understand what Stravinsky was all about.
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Yankees don’t understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether different.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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You need to set near-term milestones. Put the assumptions down on paper, and make it to your vision or ultimate product. Your team has to understand where they’re going. Your partners need to understand where they’re going.
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can’t be much good.
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Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
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If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.
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I think you can be the greatest orator of all time, the greatest motivator of all times, but if those players know that you don’t care about them, and you don’t try to understand them, then they’re never going to hear what you have to say.
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One thing I didn’t understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn’t buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn’t know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.
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Now that I’ve had a chance to play for a team where we won 30 or 35 games, you understand how special winning is.
