- 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
- General Public
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- Nov 07, 2020
The general public doesn't expect romance authors to be Harvard graduates. Which is funny, because there are actually quite a lot of us. But this disconnect means that journalists see me as an interesting story. The tricky part is making sure they understand that there are many, many talented writers who don't have 'fancy' educations.
- Forged
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we won't be able to understand the operations of trans-phobia, homophobia, if we don't understand how certain kinds of links are forged between gender and sexuality in the minds of those who want masculinity to be absolutely separate from femininity and heterosexuality to be absolutely separate from homosexuality.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a professor of comparative literature, among other things, so I'm able to read in a couple of other languages, and I understand that not everyone is, not everyone can, although it is quite stunning how many people do read Spanish in the United States, but moving between languages is also extremely helpful.
- Guinea
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- Nov 07, 2020
I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that they could use Iraqis as guinea pigs.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to make sure that when we make choices as a society, people understand the choices, agree with them, and are behind them. Otherwise, the system is going to fall apart.
- Complexities
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
In art and music, particularly in the 20th century, there was a big period there where for something to be called profound you had to not be able to understand it.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020