Alfred Harmsworth Quotes
Journalism - a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
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I love New York. It's hard to explain, but it's the energy of the city. It's not like L.A. where everything is spread out.
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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've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get 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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I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.
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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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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
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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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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 think, 'Scott Pilgrim,' it was something where the general audience didn't necessarily understand straight away what it was.
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In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways: by the length of an obituary and by how far in advance it is prepared. Presidents, former presidents, and certain heads of state are at the top of the chain.
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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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My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing.
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My dad is a football guy, not a music guy. He didn't totally understand when I decided to be a musician.
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What drives that desire to destroy Paris Hilton? What drives that desire to venerate Angelina Jolie? I do understand it, but it still baffles me. It baffles me when people treat me specially and differently, because I just want to look at them and go, 'What are you talking about? I'm just a person.'
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It's difficult to make your clients understand that there are certain days that the market will go up or down 2%, and it's basically driven by algorithms talking to algorithms. There's no real rhyme or reason for that. So it's difficult. We just try to preach long-term investing and staying the course.
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I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.
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Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.
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When I was in college my girl got me a job at the doctor's office she was working at. I was a file clerk. No disrespect but I don't think a man can do that job. It takes so much meticulous and precise file-keeping.
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That is what mature faith requires — not pride over how much one sees and understands, but humility, the feeling that one is still a child, certain of so little, still so dependent on God and others, with so much still to learn — including so much more to learn about humility.
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No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed.
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Journalism - a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
