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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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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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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You want to understand why a bond manager makes certain strategic decisions.
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Don't send out a newsletter just to send out a newsletter. One newsletter a year that is really interesting is more beneficial than 12 that are boring. If you write two or three boring newsletters in a row, your readers will start to think you write boring books.
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Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being a gentlemen's club to being a few big players, and it's very corporatised.
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With a character like a Captain Jack, who can essentially set up these verbal land mines around him, and just keep passing the "absurdity ball" around and the "irreverence ball" around, and keep people guessing and keep people confused, there's great safety in that. Me, myself, personally, I learn from it. It's a real pleasure, and I do need him.
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To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate.
