Hannah Arendt Quotes
Men always want to be terribly influential, but I see that as somewhat external. Do I imagine myself being influential? No. I want to understand. And if others understand--in the same sense that I have understood--that gives me a sense of satisfaction, like feeling at home.
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
A. B. Yehoshua
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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
Aaron Paul
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You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
Pat Paulsen
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Female can understand more detail and really care for the consequence and understand all the process.
Yingluck Shinawatra
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
V. S. Naipaul
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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.
Laura Esquivel
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It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
Walter Cronkite
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
Tamae Watanabe
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The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.
Danica Patrick
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Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.
Tabitha King
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Wealth won't give you satisfaction; creating a good product that's well received by users is what matters most.
Ma Huateng
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
Zora Neale Hurston
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I can't imagine working without and audience.
Bea Arthur
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When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else.
Haley Joel Osment
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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.
Yoko Ono
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I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.
Jack Kemp
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I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.
Gabriela Sabatini
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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.
Denise Levertov
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Most importantly, you have to stay true to yourself as well as those fans who made you who you are as an athlete.
Fedor Emelianenko
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I think that's part of people wanting a wholesome life, to surround yourself with farm animals and fields. That's sort of an American ideal.
Novella Carpenter
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His ignorance is encyclopedic.
Abba Eban
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Men always want to be terribly influential, but I see that as somewhat external. Do I imagine myself being influential? No. I want to understand. And if others understand--in the same sense that I have understood--that gives me a sense of satisfaction, like feeling at home.
Hannah Arendt