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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't blame folks for not wanting to put me in their movies or whatever. I understand if their audiences had an association with me.
- Happen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't understand how it's cheaper to buy a whole steak at the Price Club than spinach. How did that happen?
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
As immigrants, we understand better than most that to be an American is a privilege that conveys not just rights but responsibilities.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
We try to buy from living artists because we love to understand why they are painting or sculpting and get into their minds.
- Experiencing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Terrorism is resorted to for practical reasons because there is no other tool available. And those who use terrorism, and then subsequently become the targets of terrorism, understand its power and how difficult it is to counter it. Not just militarily. But especially in terms of international perception.
- American People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want the American people to understand that conservatism is an ideology of protecting the people and the people's rights.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write every day. Most weekdays, I write about ten hours a day. That doesn't mean eight hours of surfing the Net or watching videos on YouTube. I park my butt in a chair and write... I learned that writer's block is a myth created by people who don't have, or understand, a writing process.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I did some research comparing moral judgment in India and the U.S.A.
- Nov 07, 2020
When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we need is a full field guide to the microbes that live in and on people, so that we can understand what they're doing to our lives. We are them; they are us.
- Nov 07, 2020