Understood Quotes - Page 28

• I don't think Steve [Jobs] started Apple as a scam. But he understood early on the power of marketing. The idea of the computer as a bicycle for the human mind - I think that was something he believed.

  Alex Gibney

  Jobs, Thinking, Apples

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I've been around politics a long time. I've seen it at its best and its worst, been at so many events, listened to private conversations versus public speaking, understood the game of it, and in many ways the theatrics.

  Kevin Spacey

  Games, Long, Events

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I was raised Christian after age 5, but I didn't really understand it until high school. A friend of mine invited me to his youth group. There I heard the gospel, understood it, and accepted it.

  Francis Chan

  Christian, School, Age

  Source: garyboalnireland.blogspot.com

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• My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood.

  Elie Wiesel

  Source: alainelkanninterviews.com

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• There was no singles problem until singles got so single-minded that they stopped wasting time with anyone ineligible. Before that, it was understood that one of society's main tasks was matchmaking. People with lifelong friendships and ties to local nonprofessional organizations did not have to fear that isolation would accompany retirement, old age, or losing a spouse. Overburdened householders could count on the assistance not only of their own extended families, but of the American tradition of neighborliness.

  Judith Martin

  Retirement, Organization, Ties

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• My parents never understood me; they were Japanese.

  Chic Murray

  Funny, Humor, Parent

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• In the short stories - if I can make a very lumpy contrast - in the short stories I feel like the lives of the people have a kind of prior desperation and a prior need and my longing is for the story and their lives to somehow come together, even if not finally or forever, to face something; and it felt like a lot of the time with the essays I was wading into situations where there was an assumption of finality of understanding, and I felt like I could wade into any understood moment and tear it apart and make it fall apart.

  Charles D'Ambrosio

  Fall, People, Forever

  Source: quarterlyconversation.com

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• Sometimes I think I shouldn't explain much about my work because people will just feel what they feel when they see it. They'll love it or hate it or enjoy it on their own, like how I've looked at abstract paintings of other artists and cried or felt happy because I've felt, "Wow, I've lived that, I've understood that."

  Jose Parla

  Hate, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I started photography more or less by accident when I was already 27. I was taken on as an assistant by a photographer who was a friend of a friend and I very quickly understood the potential of expression in photography.

  Peter Lindbergh

  Photography, Taken, Expression

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• They took care to represent government as a thing made up of mysteries, which only themselves understood, and they hid from the understanding of the nation, the only thing that was beneficial to know, namely, that government is nothing more than a national association acting on the principles of society.

  Thomas Paine

  Government, Political, Understanding

  Thomas Paine (1848). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.88

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• If the voters really understood what we were up to they'd vote us out of office.

  Robert Byrd

  Office, Political, Term Limits

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• In the early 1970s, Milton Friedman argued that corporations should not be socially responsible because they had no mandate to be; they existed to make money, not to be charitable institutions. But in the economy of the 21st century, corporations cannot be socially responsible, if social responsibility is understood to mean sacrificing profits for the sake of some perceived social good. That's because competition has become so much more intense.

  Robert Reich

  Business, Mean, Responsibility

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• I do know that for all the artists it's very important to speak in a vernacular that can be understood by everyone.

  Aaron Rose

  Artist, Important, Speak

  Source: www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk

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• I have spoken, and I was understood. It's not like I'm a tragic person who wasn't understood. All those books are in print, all those movies are still out there, the audience gets younger. So I don't have that "I've got to do one thing before I die." I did it.

  John Waters

  Book, Tragic, Print

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• I'd made pretty clear to the people at Paramount and Dreamworks that, if they wanted Lemony Snicket to comment, he would be completely horrified by the entire film. And as long as they understood that, it was okay. I'm not much of a fan of DVD commentaries myself, so this was my way of getting revenge, in a sense, for all the puffed-up directors and stars who talk endlessly about the self-aggrandizing minutiae of making a movie.

  Daniel Handler

  Stars, Revenge, Dvds

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• I don't know about understood. I think that unless you are forced to understand - unless it is an issue of yours - you wouldn't bother to.

  Carrie Fisher

  Thinking, Issues, Bother

  "The Wit & Wisdom of Carrie Fisher". Interview with Nancy Tobin, www.bphope.com. February 1, 2010.

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• No, [the U.S.] has made it clear that we consider a peaceful resolution an essential aspect of American foreign policy. This I believe to be a situation understood by China, but again, it is important to not sound too truculent. Taking on a billion-plus Chinese is not an enterprise which one should enter lightly.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Believe, Peaceful, Chinese

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood

  John Gray

  Stress, Relief, Problem

  John Gray “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus”

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• I believe that the Bible is to be understood and received in the plain and obvious meaning of its passages; for I cannot persuade myself that a book intended for the instruction and conversion of the whole world should cover its true meaning in any such mystery and doubt that none but critics and philosophers can discover it.

  Daniel Webster

  Bible, Book, Believe

  Daniel Webster, Dartmouth College (1974). “The papers of Daniel Webster: Correspondence”

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• I went off and read the books after the audition and I read all four books in one sitting - you know - didn't wash, didn't eat, drove around with them on the steering wheel like a lunatic. I suddenly understood why my friends, who I'd thought where slightly backward, had been so addicted to these children's books. They're like crack.

  Jason Isaacs

  Children, Book, Sitting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I contend that most emotional distress is best understood as a rational response to sick societies.

  Oliver James

  Emotional, Sick, Rational

  Oliver James (2007). “Affluenza: How to be Successful and Stay Sane”

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• If we think the main mission of the church is to improve life in Adam and add a little moral strength to this fading evil age, we have not yet understood the radical condition for which Christ is such a radical solution.

  Michael Horton

  Thinking, Evil, Age

  Michael Horton (2008). “Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church”, p.211, Baker Books

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• Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.

  Al Lewis

  Mother, Struggle, Writing

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• There is an invisible thought-stuff on which the mind acts, making things through the operation of a law not yet fully understood by man. Every thought moves upon this invisible substance in increasing or diminishing degree. When we praise the richness and fullness of God, this thought-stuff is tremendously increased in our mental atmosphere. It reflects into everything that our mind and our hands touch.

  Charles Fillmore

  Moving, Men, Hands

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• [I] never understood [what a republican government was and] I believe no other man ever did or ever will.

  John Adams

  Believe, Men, America

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