- Must
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- 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
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
My definition of good is that you understand that this is a question of power. That you be willing to give up some power. That you be willing to give up some resources.
- Christopher
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was well known to African Americans before Bill Clinton discovered me. He was like Christopher Columbus riding up on something he didn't understand.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more you understand me, the less characters I can play.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's funny: now we're starting to do interviews, we've just begun to understand what we're doing, whereas before, without doing interviews, we never really thought about motives.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
American economists can't understand the German fear of inflation and the effects of inflation when dealing with the world economic crisis. They wonder why Germany pursues such a different course - 'Why can't they agree with us?' I would have thought it was fairly obvious.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it was because I wasn't flying as much.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I understand popular entertainment better than anyone. I want to have the world's No. 1 tennis player, the hottest movie, the biggest artist.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
By obtaining a sense of its place in the unfolding drama of life, set in an ecological theatre, so we can understand why it has become one of the leading players.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been interested in philosophy, but some of Jung's ideas seem useful in helping people understand pictures and so forth.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
I understand the Saudis have been named because fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I act, I try to understand the character, why she's behaving like that.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I prepare myself for a character, for a role, I always try to understand her.
- Better Understanding
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- Nov 07, 2020