- Nov 07, 2020
Understand Quotes
Understanding rarely arrives on schedule.
This collection looks at understanding from a few directions - youthful decisions made before their weight is clear, a film crew needing to share one vision to avoid getting lost, and skepticism toward reasoning that doesn't hold up under scrutiny. Related lines continue in Know Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People and what they say don't bother me like they used to. When I was younger, I really couldn't take it because I couldn't understand where the criticism was coming from.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't understand how some of these young actresses are wearing such provocative, editorial items, when they haven't even established a career yet. It's hard to see past that. I'm not so sure that's smart in the long run.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.
- Fair Shake
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.
- Collaborating
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real excitement is collaborating with computer scientists and neuroscientists and starting to understand in detail how children learn so much so quickly.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Siblings are the guarantors that the private childhood world - so unlike the adult world that scientists are only just beginning to understand it - is a fully shared and objective one.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Princess Diana died, I couldn't understand why people were mourning her death in such an enormous, hysterical way when they didn't actually know her for real.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the U.S. to cease acting as if they don't understand what is going on.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was tired and I had overworked myself and burnt myself out. So I went to Egypt by myself. When I saw what was built there, it made me understand how powerful we are, that we can create anything. And I felt like I needed to create things that were timeless too.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most dangerous thing for an entrepreneur to do is to actually go into a business that he does not understand fully.
- Benefiting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people who were supposed to invest in refineries, who understand the market, are benefiting from there being no refineries because of the fuel import business.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, I come from a long line of narcissists. And I also have no kids - by choice - but I understand not being a mother and the pain that comes from that.
- Frustration
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- Nov 07, 2020