- Man
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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
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The First Amendment allows Nazis and white extremists to do what they are going to do, and it allows for black extremists and all other types of extremists to do what they are going to do. I understand that, and I'm not opposed to that.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it?
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We put too much on contemporary dancers. A lot of them cannot change styles; a lot of them can't do anything else other than run around the stage reaching and stretching in anguish to somebody off camera that I never understand who it is. But it's the teenage angst they have to live with.
- Nest
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- Nov 07, 2020
I understand the human instinct to want to create a nest and possess things, to show them off, but for me personally, it became less and less interesting.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I taught myself German and psychology. Learning about psychology really helped me understand myself and the others around me and it helped keep me sane.
- Ethos
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- Nov 07, 2020
I understand working-class culture, tribalism and the ethos of violence, so I make films about these things.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I understand there are bumps in the road. I understand there's a lot of noise that I don't want to listen to, and I just try to do my job to the best of my ability.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?'
- Physics
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad used to sell a type of commodity contract. It was so complicated, he was certain his sales people didn't understand what they were selling.
- Cognitive
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- Nov 07, 2020
We historians are increasingly using experimental psychology to understand the way we act. It is becoming very clear that our ability to evaluate risk is hedged by all sorts of cognitive biases. It's a miracle that we get anything right.
- Embedded
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- Nov 07, 2020