Isaiah Berlin Quotes
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
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I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.
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You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
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The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
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I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.
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In order to understand the mindset of a boxer, I needed to become a boxer myself.
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I wanted to get away from the Mexican vernacular and do more 'nuevo Latino.' Americans are starting to understand regionality in Mexican food. It is very regional in terms of ingredients.
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I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
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Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.
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I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
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I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.
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A poet articulating the dreads and horrors of our time is necessary in order to make readers understand what is happening, really understand it, not just know about it but feel it: and should be accompanied by a willingness on the part of those who write it to take additional action towards stopping the great miseries which they record.
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The first time I heard Johnny play at the Fillmore East, I wasn't really impressed. He had come on the scene with everybody telling me how great he was, and I didn't hear it.
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To understand is to perceive patterns.
