- Hate
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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
- Corrosive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have written about cultural dislocation, and I understand the corrosive effect of diminished expectations.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
We just have fun with our NFL Draft coverage because we understand that it's a long process, and there can be technical glitches that we don't profess to ignore. During our late coverage of the Draft, we sometimes get slap-happy and distort the heads of our analysts.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of bands that have a huge appeal, but I don't understand why. Guns n' Roses. U2. But you know, that's just my thing. Music is pretty personal.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We Chileans have to be able to understand that in a democracy institutions must function freely and with sovereignty.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's only one reason to be crucified under the Roman Empire, and that is for treason or sedition. Crucifixion, we have to understand, was not actually a form of capital punishment for Rome. In fact, it was often the case that the criminal would be killed first and then crucified.
- Discriminated
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- Nov 07, 2020
American Muslims - young American Muslims in particular - are starting to understand that unless they are willing to stand up for all the other oppressed communities in this country, including those discriminated against for their gender or sexuality, then no one will stand up for them.
- Enable
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- Nov 07, 2020
As we've come along, we've educated our audience, getting them to understand that brands do not compromise entertainment. For us, they enhance it. They enable it.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to understand the history of the banjo, and the history of bluegrass music, we need to move beyond the narrative we've inherited, beyond generalizations that bluegrass is mostly derived from a Scotch-Irish tradition with influences from Africa. It is actually a complex Creole music that comes from multiple cultures.
- Empty Space
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- Nov 07, 2020
A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand.
- Enable
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone needs to understand that we were meant to live together in this country. We have to get to know one another; even if we don't agree, we have to enable each side to express itself.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Palestinians must understand that this is our home, to which we have returned, and we also have to understand that this is the homeland of all those born to it.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't have a father growing up, and I was raised with all women, and I didn't really understand men. I thought they were like women, right?
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't understand with our brains but with our hearts. That's where the image of God is.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human freedom increasingly depends on who controls what we know and, therefore, how we understand our world. It depends on what information we are able to create and disseminate: what we can share, how we can share it, and with whom we can share it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of Chinese don't understand why people in the West are critical of China.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020