Understand Me Quotes - Page 3

• There is an intelligence factor that works with the spoken word. With words, you have to understand meaning and nuances and things like that. You have to be able to relate...but with music it's just music.

  Tommy Chong

  Able, Nuance, Spoken Word

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• Only when a woman shares male risks can she really begin to understand men.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Risk, Males

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• There are a lot of people out there that really aren't that different than me, I consider myself a pretty average guy, so hopefully they understand me and know where I am coming from. I kinda feel like I am a voice for them.

  Jason Aldean

  Voice, Average, People

  Interview with Ziyah Karmali, www.shavemagazine.com.

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• I sometimes think I've needed a bit of an arm around me in my career - which I've not always got from certain managers and coaches who didn't understand me.

  Robbie Fowler

  Thinking, Hands, Careers

  Robbie Fowler (2009). “Fowler: My Autobiography”, p.19, Pan Macmillan

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• I think people understand me, me as a person and what I went through because I kept it on the plate. I never hid nothing. I was never in the closet. I smoked dope, I gang banged, I did this, I did that; whatever I did it was always out.

  Snoop Dogg

  Dope, Thinking, People

  "Snoop Dogg: The Realest Part I". Interview with Octavia Bostick, allhiphop.com. June 3, 2004.

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• Fools do not understand men of intelligence.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Intelligence, Fool

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• My fans are my family, because they understand me and I understand them.

  Young Jeezy

  Fans, My Family

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• I'm not twentysomething. I'm not trying to find myself - I know exactly who I am and exactly what I want. And I don't want a fan. I want a man who understands me, who challenges me, who calls me on my sh-t instead of letting me get away with it because I'm supposed to be a star. I want a best friend.

  Taraji P. Henson

  Men, Challenges, Trying

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• To understand me, you have to meet me and be around me. And then only if I'm in a good mood - don't meet me in a bad mood.

  Avril Lavigne

  Motivational, Bad Mood, Good Mood

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• Oh. Yeah. That does make sense.” Shaylin hesitated. “But I don’t know which dorm room is hers.” “Third floor, number thirty-six. When they shared a brain, they used to say it stood for their chest size. I said it was their combined IQ.” “Of course you did,” Shaylin said. “See, you do understand me!” Aphrodite said with fake enthusiasm.

  P. C. Cast

  Numbers, Fake, Brain

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• Women," Mat declared as he rode Pips down the dusty, little-used road, "are like mules." He frowned. "Wait. No. Goats. Women are like goats. Except every flaming one thinks she's a horse instead, and a prize racing mare to boot. Do you understand me, Talmanes?" "Pure poetry, Mat," Talmanes said, tamping the tabac down into his pipe.

  Robert Jordan

  Horse, Thinking, Waiting

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• Part a of scene from 'Bitterblue' between Madlen (Bitterblue's medicine woman) and Bitterblue: Madlen came to sit beside her [Bitterblue] on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me?

  Kristin Cashore

  Mother, Jobs, Queens

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• we all have too many wheels, screws and valves to judge each other on first impressions or one or two pointers. I don't understand you, you don't understand me and we don't understand ourselves.

  Anton Chekhov

  Two, Judging, First Impression

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Ronald Hingley (1998). “Five Plays”, p.44, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The jury is supposed to be twelve peers, but technically that would mean every single person on the jury should have Asperger's syndrome, because then they'd really understand me.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mean, Should Have, Twelve

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• Have you ever been anyone's?" "No. And you?" "I've never wanted to." "Neither have I. Until I saw this lovely girl in Seattle, with big gold eyes, and pink, full lips... and I wondered if she could understand me.

  Katy Evans

  Girl, Eye, Lovely

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• I would rediscover the secret of great communications and great combustions. I would say storm. I would say river. I would say tornado. I would say leaf. I would say tree. I would be drenched by all rains, moistened by all dews. I would roll like frenetic blood on the slow current of the eye of words turned into mad horses into fresh children into clots into curfew into vestiges of temples into precious stones remote enough to discourage miners. Whoever would not understand me would not understand any better the roaring of a tiger.

  Aime Cesaire

  Horse, Children, Rain

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• I done me best when I was let. Thinking always if I go all goes. A hundred cares, a tithe of troubles and is there one who understands me? One in a thousand of years of the nights? All me life I have been lived among them but now they are becoming lothed to me. And I am lothing their little warm tricks. And lothing their mean cosy turns. And all the greedy gushes out through their small souls. And all the lazy leaks down over their brash bodies. How small it's all! And me letting on to meself always. And lilting on all the time.

  James Joyce

  Mean, Night, Thinking

  James Joyce (1967). “A shorter Finnegans wake”, Viking Pr

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• Meditation is unfocussed mind, you simply listen silently, not with a tension in the mind, not with an urge to know and learn, no, with total relaxedness, in a let go, in an opening of your being. You listen, not to know, you simply listen to understand.

  Rajneesh

  Letting Go, Meditation, Mind

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• By realizing the reality of our Prince within us, we are never bothered again by the fact that we do not understand ourselves, or that other people do not understand us.  The only One who truly understands me is the One who made me and who redeems me... It is a tremendous freedom to get rid of every kind of self-consideration and learn to care about only one thing - the relationship between our Prince and ourselves.

  Oswald Chambers

  Reality, Self, People

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• When you hit the things that are relevant to the next generation, - it's a way for young people to feel like "Somebody understands me. Church is not irrelevant. I feel that my hurts are being addressed. Things that I am concerned about are being talked about."

  Patricia Mauceri

  Hurt, People, Church

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• It is false to suggest that men must turn away from his desires in the interest of a higher duty. Men only responds to duty if he desires to do so. To understand men, you must understand their desires and the relative strength of those desires.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Desire, Duty

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• The fact that the U.S. government spends millions of dollars to send murderous robot planes into other people's land to murder them, into other countries, that's a problem. That's what people should be concerned about. The fact that other people don't understand me is not a problem. I keep things in perspective.

  Ian MacKaye

  Country, Land, Government

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• [Identity liberalism] says, on the one hand, you can never understand me because you are not exactly the kind of person I've defined myself to be. And on the other hand, you must recognize me and feel for me. Well, if you're so different that I'm not able to get into your head and I'm not able to experience or sympathize with what you experience, why should I care?

  Steve Inskeep

  Hands, Identity, Different

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Now that I see you understand me so well, I will avoid you.

  Mason Cooley

  Knowledge, Wells

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• When I came to North America, it was hard. It was hard to understand, hard to get someone to understand me. I only knew Russian. I studied French in school, but it didn't help. I forgot most of that.

  Pavel Datsyuk

  School, America, Helping

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