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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I want the world to understand that a Palestinian state means no Israeli state. That's the equation.
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With Alzheimer's patients, you have to be very careful what you say when you're looking at them over their bed. Because once in a while, they understand it.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.
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I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.
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Anything I do, I want to do it well.
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People who follow their religion to the letter of the law are just silly. I mean, I want to tell Hasidic Jews I promise you, God will not mind if you wear a nice cotton blend in the summer.
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To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate.
