- Food
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want people to understand the absolute futility of war, the 'pity of war' as Wilfred Owen called it.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't understand why the press is so interested in speculating about my appearance, anyway. What does my face have to do with my music or my dancing?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in a traditional environment, I was taught the importance of art, how it's connected to the soul, how it makes a human being. This made me understand and cherish American art forms.
- Doubts
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- Nov 07, 2020
I understand people have doubts, but I'm totally clean.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are too many people coming to parks doing the wrong things. They treat the parks like popcorn playgrounds. They don't understand what the national parks mean.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Classically, it's the child who looks up at their parents who says, 'This is how the future is going to be,' and it's the parents who don't understand because they're set in their ways. For me, it was the exact opposite.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Drawing teaches you to look at things properly and to understand form and structure.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your number one job as a comedian is to be aware. You're supposed to understand the temperature in the room more than anyone on the planet - that's the whole craft of comedy.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
UFC has done a fantastic job of establishing the biggest leading brand in mixed martial arts. Years ago, many people didn't know what MMA was nor understand the sport.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not avoiding Fox, but they don't seem to want me to be on their shows much. I can't understand that.
- Monkey
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I'll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It's like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We're trying to use a thing we don't understand to understand ourselves.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Obama's assault on the free-enterprise market and venture capitalists is anti-American and shows his greatest insecurity: his lack of private sector experience and his inability to understand the economy and help businesses thrive in these uncertain economic times.
- Boss
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- Nov 07, 2020