George Steiner 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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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
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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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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 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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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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I don't understand anything about America's culture.
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We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.
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As a GM Goodwrench Service Plus dealer, I understand how good service makes a difference to our customers.
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I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
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I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
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The news comes somewhat late, but I'm glad to hear it nevertheless.
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To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
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I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.
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Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette.
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For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.
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There's no such thing as a healthy tan, and that's what people need to understand.
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I want the world to understand that a Palestinian state means no Israeli state. That's the equation.
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Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.
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The greatest secret for eliminating the infirmity complex, which is another term for deep and profound self-doubt, is to fill your mind to overflowing faith.
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But in action, one defies one's character.
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To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate.
