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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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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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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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot 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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I don't understand how people can make such a fuss about people that are happy and in love, when there's people dying of hunger and war and they don't even notice that. I really don't understand that. That makes me so angry!
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Haiti, like any place, has its security problems; it has a great challenge in terms of establishing a kind of globally acceptable rule of law.
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When I was a kid, all of the parents and grandparents came out of the Depression Era. They were all freezing bread in their freezer, they were covering their sofas with plastic, and they had plastic runners on the floor. There was a great distance between them and anything authentic.
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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war.
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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.
