Understood Quotes
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Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious.
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I understood that life is lived most fully in the imagination - that, ironically, imagination is the key to reality.
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Fear was a thing I understood all too well. It was a malignancy that had spread throughout my body until my mother, in her godly wisdom, had diagnosed and cauterized it.
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There's definitely a tension between the way teaching is talked about and understood at the political level and how everyday average Americans think about teachers.
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When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.
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While the censorious man is most severe in judging others, he is invariably the most ready to repel any animadversions made upon himself; upon the principle well understood in medical circles, that the feeblest bodies are always the most sensitive,
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My parents never understood me; they were Japanese.
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Global warming alarmists invariably try to make their case by resorting to rhetoric, dogma, opinion, and emotion. The closest thing to scientific data in their articles is the occasional chart claiming a poorly understood correlation between atmospheric CO2 and the Earth's temperature.
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When actually, you have one identity made of different parts. Depending on where you are, at what time in your life, some things are higher or deeper. That's what I understood later: that I'm French and Tunisian, and I'm accepting the French part of my identity.
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The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at least to a significant degree of detail by a single individual, should probably not be built.
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I never understood the point of doing a cover a song and having it sound exactly like the original.
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All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.
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I always thought I had crooked eyebrows and crooked teeth. That's why I never understood why people called me a beauty.
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There was nothing in this world that was not a con, suddenly I understood this. Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.
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The narrative related to economics is, I think, very well understood even by the common man.
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The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.
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Nature is the common, universal language, understood by all.
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A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents.
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Oh, what the hell did I know? I went to the set the first day in full makeup and the director told me to take it off. So I did the film without makeup. I had nothing to do with anything I did. I never understood why I was so famous.
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I'd like to leave America for someplace where they would not know a word of English and I might be understood.
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I remember listening to Sugar Free and Jay Z and I never really understood some of the stuff they used to say until years later. Then you hear it again like, Damn that's crazy. I just got what he's talking about.
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Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn't and I tried to turn them into something they could never be. I loved them all but maybe I never understood any of them. I don't think they understood me.
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I'm a child of the sixties. I grew up with a president who was a crook, who put us into the most unpopular war in history, who had no communication with people under thirty. I had seen the Symbionese Liberation Army and the Panthers and the Diggers; I understood what they were about.
