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.
Quotes to Explore
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
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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.
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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.
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Female can understand more detail and really care for the consequence and understand all the process.
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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.
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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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It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
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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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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.
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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.
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Wealth won't give you satisfaction; creating a good product that's well received by users is what matters most.
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
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I can't imagine working without and audience.
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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.
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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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I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.
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I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.
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What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes first? The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
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It gives me satisfaction to help people.
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I like to imagine the iPod as the soundtrack to people's lives. It makes ordinary life a bit more like the movies.
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I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did - or did not do - to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.
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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.
