Understand Quotes
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I simply can't understand the stereotyping women as film makers who make soppy family dramas. Look at Katherine Bigelow: she has directed Point Break and Strange Days. I hate labels of any kind. Just because you are a woman you can't do this or that? Twenty years ago women entering the work force was enough of a shock. People just like the predictable; they feel safe with it. You know, it's such a bore.
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A learned County Court judge in a book of memoirs recently said that the overwhelming amount of his time on the bench was taken up with people who are persuaded by persons whom they do not know to enter into contracts that they do not understand to purchase goods that they do not want with money that they have not got.
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Land of snap decisions, land of short attention spans, nothing is savored long enough to really understand.
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No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.
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I would argue that if you understand how the cells of the brain are organized into circuits, almost computational circuits if you will, and we see how information flows through those circuits and how it's transformed, we might have a much firmer grasp on why our brains make decisions the way that they do. If we get a handle on that, maybe we can overcome some of our limitations and at the very least we'll understand why we do what we do.
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It helped me understand music and to understand people and performing, it was all positive for me and set me up for where I am now.
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We can love completely what we cannot completely understand.
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I believe in order that I may understand.
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[Richard Feynman] truly believed that if you couldn't explain something simply, you didn't understand it.
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I suppose people do sometimes not understand the seeming disparity between my onstage personality and my public personality in the press. But I feel that I am definitely a louder, more outspoken person with those I am close to.
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Let us begin to understand the argument. There is a solution to everything: Science.
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I do what I can to make young people understand that drugs can destroy their lives. I'm the perfect example of what people can accomplish when they have regained a sane body and spirit.
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I don't understand the mechanics behind things, so a site that I find impressive may not really be more technologically advanced than something which is ostensibly uninteresting.
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It was too hard to understand marrying someone I didn't know. When you don't like someone, if he touches you, it's harder than anything.
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'It's much better to understand than to be understood,' from my mom.
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We refuse to believe that which we don't understand.
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I know politics is emotionally brutal; I've already had experience with the reality of smear campaigns, so I understand there will not be a path of roses laid before me.
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We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty.
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Astronomy? Impossible to understand and madness to investigate.
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Once we truly understand that God's will is that we be happy, we no longer feel the need to ask for anything other than that God's will be done.
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In the perspective of every person lies a lens through which we may better understand ourselves.
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You didn’t understand what he was saying, until he kissed you. It was a kiss of such complicity, of such uncomplicated sympathy, that you felt for the first time not alone in your suffering.
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A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.
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Suicide is one concept I do not understand. To want to kill someone else, for a second, yes, but to want to kill oneself, never.
