Understand Quotes
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It's very hard to understand when you're not out there but voting somebody off on Survivor almost feels like you're killing them.
Aras Baskauskas
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Was Jesus sleeping? There are mysteries of your wisdom and creation that we don't understand.
Craig Parker
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You think because you understand 'one' you must also understand 'two', because one and one make two. But you must also understand 'and'.
Rumi
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In school they told me I was a Jew, "a filthy Jew." At first I asked myself what exactly that was. But then I began to understand. I was a Jew, I was a member of the Jewish faith, the Jewish community. One time, when I was giving a reading at a school, someone asked me: "If it was so dangerous to be Jewish, why didn't you convert to Christianity?" My response was: "It's not as easy you think. When you're a Jew, you're a Jew.
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
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I know it does not matter that I do not understand.
Brendan Kennelly
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I'm moving on. I should have made that clear when I made the announcement. I guess I wasn't clear. If people think you're leaving a show after all these years, you might be retiring. So I understand where they're coming from, but I should have impressed the fact that I hope I'm just moving on right now.
Regis Philbin
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In the past the French came to Germany less with the desire to understand it than with a zealous desire to interpret, to analyze it dispassionately something for which their training at the Ecole Normale Superieure or the Ecole des Hautes Etudes and the French language superbly equipped them to do.
Walter Abish
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From working with Ralph Lauren, I started to understand what it meant to build a brand. There were times when I was working there that it seemed so repetitive. At the time, I didn't understand what was happening. But when I stepped out of it, I realized what he was doing was achieving a signature look and reiterating that. That's why when you think about a polo shirt you think about Ralph - he owns that garment.
Simon Spurr
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Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.
George Eliot
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Maybe it's because I'm a little naive, but I do like to think that there aren't really very many truly bad people in the world. I think that everybody has their reasons for what they do, and if you really look through their eyes, you could probably understand them.
Stephenie Meyer
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My words are very easy to understand and very easy to practice; but there is no one in the world who is able to understand and practice them.
Lao Tzu
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No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.
Paul Gallico
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It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do.
Alexander McQueen
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I'm a big boy. I've been through enough that I understand how things are.
Alan Trammell
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Ven you read the speeches in the papers, and see as vun gen'lman says of another, 'the Honourable member, if he vill allow me to call him so' you vill understand, sir, that that means, 'if he vill allow me to keep up that 'ere pleasant and uniwersal fiction.'
Charles Dickens
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All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand.
David Hawkins
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The way you can understand all of the Social Media is as the creation of a new kind of public space.
Danah Boyd
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One can do something if one can see and understand it.
Claude Monet
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You can successfully force people to follow a certain course, but you cannot force them to understand it.
Confucius
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Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.
Honore de Balzac
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Policy makers have plainly failed both here in the United States and in Europe as well. People who have suffered because of that. And when they say, "Throw out economists, we don't trust economists anymore," you can totally understand why.
Katty Kay
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I like to do things that frighten me. When I’m afraid, I understand more things. I want the feeling... All my instincts cry out against it, every morning anew. Then I say, ‘I should do it. If I don’t do it, no one will do it for me.
David Grossman
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I don't understand anything technical about music at all. I don't understand any of it, why you can't put these sounds together with those sounds. I only know what sounds good.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana
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If you not longer let the community hear all of it's significant voices - you begin to have; a single narrow view of: the problems of the society, of the solutions of society - and you begun soon or later overwhelmed by the society you don't understand.
Ben Bagdikian