Understand Quotes
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I don't believe in the death penalty, but I understand personal vengeance.
Ian McShane -
I've read the poker books, but at this point, everybody who's playing has read the poker books. I feel like I'm knowledgeable enough to understand what's going on in the game, and I understand why I suck. And I'm not sure if I'll ever rise beyond that to the level where I don't suck.
Ira Glass
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My words have an origin. My deeds have a sovereign. Truly, because people do not understand this, they do not understand me.
Lao Tzu -
I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.
Ma Jian -
Max Planck was one of the finest people I have ever known... but he really didn't understand physics, because during the eclipse of 1919 he stayed up all night to see if it would confirm the bending of light by the gravitational field. If he had really understood general relativity, he would have gone to bed the way I did.
Albert Einstein -
We collaborate with other countries on issues like public health and climate change because we understand these issues affect our collective welfare.
Wendy Kopp -
My family is first-generation Nigerian, and we grew up in a very small, suburban town in New England, Massachusetts. So I do understand what it feels like to be an 'only' in that regard.
Uzo Aduba -
Sometimes you have to understand your place.
Zach LaVine
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When you do a play, or even a movie, you have weeks to finesse your character. You really understand why they do what they do. In TV, you get new material weekly about your character.
D. B. Sweeney -
I don't think it will take long. We understand what the game plan is every game going out. The transition more than anything will probably be defensively, because everybody played different defensive schemes, and our scheme is probably one of the toughest schemes in the NBA because we work a lot harder.
Udonis Haslem -
Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand.
E. T. A. Hoffmann -
People don't understand: I've had 37 fights, three to five fights every year, for 17 years. That does something to somebody. These suspensions are the only vacations I've ever had.
Nate Diaz -
When you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer.
Stevie Wonder -
There is always magic to be summoned at any point. I love to live in a world of magic, but not a fake world of magic. We all really basically have a lot of magic... It’s only those of us who choose to accept it, that really understand it. It’s there for everyone. That’s the only thing that I feel I am able to give to people and that’s why I know that they respond to me because I try to give them only their own magic... not mine, but theirs.
Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
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I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.
Salvador Dali -
We practically always excuse things when we understand them.
Mikhail Lermontov -
If you break down most rock songs and look at the lyrics on a piece of paper, it's all about melody. It's all about presentation. And a lot of bands are really great, but you can't understand a word of what they say.
Zac Brown Band -
I've been in front of a camera since I was a little girl, and that's the medium I understand.
Samantha Morton -
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Alfred Einstein -
Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.
Jackie Chan
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The first thing to understand about surveillance video in public places is that there is already a lot of it going on - though it is impossible to know how much.
Adam Cohen -
I have often lost whole days jumping from one Wikipedia article after another in an attempt to understand the full scope of marriage as an institution.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
When I started out as an actor, I thought, Here's what I have to say; how shall I say it? I began to understand that what I do in the scene is not as important as what happens between me and the other person. And listening is what lets it happen. It's almost always the other person who causes you to say what you say next. You don't have to figure out how you'll say it. You have to listen so simply, so innocently, that the other person brings about a change in you that makes you say it and informs the way you say it.
Alan Alda -
We are, all of us, poor wretches, and those who prefer not to understand this are even worse off than the rest of us.
Isabelle Eberhardt