- 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
- Coltrane
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- Nov 07, 2020
My thing has always been that the clothing we make is kind of like music. There are always critics that don't understand that young people can be into Bob Dylan but also into the Wu-Tang Clan and Coltrane and Social Distortion.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
The circumstances, including my body and my parents, whom I may curse, are my soul's own choice and I do not understand this because I have forgotten.
- Land
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- Nov 07, 2020
We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities.
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody wants blockbusters. I like to see a few pictures now and then that have to do with people and have relationships, and that's what I want to do films about. I don't want to see these sci-fi movies, and I don't want to do one of those. I don't understand it.
- Kind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a company is charging money for a product - as Evernote does for all above its most basic service, and same for Dropbox and SugarSync - you understand its incentive for sticking with that product.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I've always had that orientation to try to understand the humanity behind people with whom I disagree.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of us suffer some injuries from experiences that seem to have no rhyme or reason. We cannot understand or explain them. We may never know why some things happen in this life. The reason for some of our suffering is known only to the Lord.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I have a faith. I have an overriding feeling that all of this can't be for nothing. But then I also fully understand that it might be.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem with the bronco is to get on and stay on. This is the problem with the Golden Rule-to understand and apply.
- Balances
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll always understand the Schadenfreude aspect to short-selling. I get that no one will always like it. I'm also convinced to the deepest part of my bones that short-selling plays the role of real-time financial watchdog. It's one of the few checks and balances in the market.
- Phone Call
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't understand this whole Twitter, Facebook stuff. I don't get it. Make a phone call. Talk to somebody.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020