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
I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.
E. T. Bell
I'm not driven by being understood.
Kary Mullis
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
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
The experience of being understood, versus interpreted, is so compelling you can charge admission.
B. Joseph Pine II
My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
Benoit Mandelbrot
In the Holy Relationship, it's understood that we all have unhealed places, and that healing is the purpose of our being with another person. We don't hide our weaknesses, but rather we understand that the relationship is a context for healing through mutual forgiveness.
Marianne Williamson
I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect
Fernando Pessoa
Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.
Plato
I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.
Virginia Satir
The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
What we do is never understood, but always merely praised or blamed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
William Jennings Bryan
I am not bothered by the fact that I am not understood. I am bothered when I do not know others.
Confucius
To make yourself understood to people, one must first speak to their eyes.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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
The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and this would resolve society into a state of perpetual war.
William H. Seward
I believe tactics have to be based on a strategy of creative tension. … If what you’ve done is made everything about ‘Oh, they just broke a bunch of windows,’ not ‘Oh, man, this is serious,’ you’re in trouble. That being said, if you look at what happened in Baltimore, there was a lot of righteous anger in that uprising that did advance the conversation. It wasn’t until Baltimore that people started seriously talking about the social conditions in a lot of these communities.
Eugene Puryear
Martina Navratilova is not a 'girl,' nor is Debi Thomas or Katarina Witt, and the women skaters weren't 'cute' in 1988. The problem with describing women as girls is that they never grow up and therefore can't take positions of authority in the world of sport. But the good news is that you can change language, so ultimately you can change the picture of women in sports.
Anita DeFrantz
That's really a very different experience: You don't have to look to be understood. You're already understood.
Laurie Anderson
