Laurie Anderson Quotes
That's really a very different experience: You don't have to look to be understood. You're already understood.
Laurie Anderson
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My wife said to me... you never understood what we were going through back home, did you? And I didn't. And I have to confess that.
Oliver North
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I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.
E. T. Bell
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I'm not driven by being understood.
Kary Mullis
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I personally never thought that 'Dallas' would resurrect itself because I didn't think anybody knew how to do it. And it was proven to me on the few attempts that were made. The movie that was going to be done, I read that script, it was atrocious. It was just awful. And I just didn't think anybody understood it anymore.
Patrick Duffy
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The first generations of Comanches in captivity never really understood the concept of wealth, of private property. The central truth of their lives was the past, the dimming memory of the wild, ecstatic freedom of the plains, of the days when Comanche warriors in black buffalo headdresses rode unchallenged from Kansas to northern Mexico, of a world without property or boundaries. What Quanah had that the rest of his tribe in the later years did not was that most American of human traits: boundless optimism.
S. C. Gwynne
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The experience of being understood, versus interpreted, is so compelling you can charge admission.
B. Joseph Pine II
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Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
William Jennings Bryan
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I am not bothered by the fact that I am not understood. I am bothered when I do not know others.
Confucius
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To make yourself understood to people, one must first speak to their eyes.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy and greed, among the vices of the weak, and possibly even their most dangerous one. Power corrupts indeed when the weak band together in order to ruin the strong, but not before.
Hannah Arendt
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What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.
Pablo Picasso
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I maintain that any writer of a book is fully authorised in attaching any meaning he likes to a word or phrase he intends to use. If I find an author saying, at the beginning of his book, "Let it be understood that by the word 'black' I shall always mean 'white,' and by the word 'white' I shall always mean 'black,'" I meekly accept his ruling, however injudicious I think it.
Lewis Carroll
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If you can't get yourself understood, you may have trouble, so you need some interpretation every now and again wherever you might be.
Ry Cooder
Buena Vista Social Club
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He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.
Seneca the Younger
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The disappointments of life can never, any more than its pleasures, be estimated singly; and the healthiest and most agreeable of men is exposed to that coincidence of various vexations, each heightening the effect of the other, which may produce in him something corresponding to the spontaneous and externally unaccountable moodiness of the morbid and disagreeable.
George Eliot
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When anybody and everybody registers to vote, they do so under the penalty of perjury.
Audie Cornish
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That's really a very different experience: You don't have to look to be understood. You're already understood.
Laurie Anderson
