Understood Quotes - Page 36

• Something as radical as a war can only be understood (if at all) through the collaboration of journalists, academia, artists and, of course, people.

  Sasa Stanisic

  War, Artist, People

  "The Rumpus International Rivers Interview #3: Sasa Stanisic On The Danube". Interview with Michael Zelenko, therumpus.net. January 25, 2010.

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• In fact, I always assumed that most everything I read was true, to one degree or another. I couldn't articulate this fact until after I read Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and he discussed Happening Truth, Story Truth, and Emotional Truth. I always understood that the facts of The Sun Also Rises or On the Road were the facts as dictated by a certain narrative structure, but because the experiences of those characters echoed my own feelings about the world. I knew there was a Happening Truth behind them.

  Kevin Keck

  Character, Emotional, Narrative Structure

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My early childhood was spent living by the Pacific Ocean. I carry with me something imprinted by that wide, limitless horizon, which I learned connected us to different people and cultures, including my own family's origins in the Arab World and Northern Europe. I understood early that my world was only a small part of a much larger one. That captivated me.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Ocean, Europe, People

  "Her Majesty Queen Noor: Yogi & Devoted Warrior for Peace". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• King Hussein of Jordan dedicated his life - I witnessed it in his sleeping as well as waking hours - to trying to break through the impasses keeping people apart. He understood that the security and prosperity of any one of us in this world depends on the security and prosperity enjoyed by others. As Martin Luther King said, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." In the Middle East, nothing could be more true.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Kings, Sleep, Break Through

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• I think we're [me and my son] different. He plans, organizes and intellectualizes more than I do. It wasn't until I worked with Federico Fellini that I understood what my problem was.

  Donald Sutherland

  Son, Thinking, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable activity from a very young age.

  Lisa Lucas

  Book, Reading, House

  "A Lifelong Lover of Books Breaks Ground Atop the Literary World". Interview with Hope Wabuke, www.theroot.com. February 27, 2016.

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• And what terrifies me is that we're entering a phase where if you start to speak about this as something that can be understood historically - without any sympathy - you are going to be thought of as unpatriotic, and you are going to be forbidden. It's very dangerous. It is precisely incumbent on every citizen to quite understand the world we're living in and the history we are a part of and we are forming as a superpower.

  Edward Said

  Citizens, Entering, World

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• That old adage, that "music is a universal language", is really true. Even if all of the lyrics are understood, they seem to connect with it really well and in some ways, more so.

  William Fitzsimmons

  Way, Language, Adages

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• Any parent would have reservations if their kid came home dressed like a skinhead, but mine understood that punk kept me focused on something when so many of my friends were out robbing 7-Elevens.

  Daughn Gibson

  Home, Kids, Parent

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I understood that these trade agreements were going to destroy the middle class of this country. I led the fight against us. That is one of the major differences that we have.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Fighting, Agreement

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I never understood the low art/high art distinction.

  Matt Tong

  Art, Lows, Distinction

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• That's just the way people's brains work. If you want to talk about something, you have to reduce it to a form that can be understood. That's one of the reasons I'm not good about boiling down music.

  John Dieterich

  People, Brain, Want

  "Deerhoof". Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Everything that I talk about, pretty much, are things that I learned or understood over the years.

  Tyler Perry

  Years

  "Tyler Perry, Taking Madea from Stage to Page". "Talk of the Nation" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 12, 2006.

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• No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers.

  Gore Vidal

  Class, People, Reform

  "Fresh Air Remembers Writer And Critic Gore Vidal". www.npr.org. August 2, 2012.

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• Fairly examined, truly understood,
  No man is wholly bad, nor wholly good.

  Theognis of Megara

  Men

  Theognis of Megara, “Human Nature”

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• In every science certain things must be accepted as first principles if the subject matter is to be understood; and these first postulates rest upon faith.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Faith, Science, Understanding

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• When I came here [to Malaysia] I heard that there is a problem with the concept of pluralism whereby pluralism is understood in a very narrow way, which I think is wrong. This is not to diminish your sense of truth in what you believe but to acknowledge the fact that we live in a world where we need to deal with pluralism. It's a fact.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Believe, Thinking, Pluralism Is

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• In fact all the Islamists, that is the reformists not the Salafis, now they all say that they want a civil state, a civil state with Islamic reference points. They are not talking about an Islamic state, or sharia in the way this was once understood in the fight against the colonisers, or just afterwards in the 70's, 80's and 90's.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Islamic, Fighting, Talking

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• I'm still committed to the socialist idea because the socialist idea, correctly understood, includes the principles of freedom and social justice. It also includes the recognition of the value of democracy. When we speak about social justice, it means that freedom should be used not only in the interest of profit but also in the interest of the advancement of the people who create all values.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Mean, Ideas, Justice

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.

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• My audience is made up of two groups of people. The first group includes people whose roots are deep in the Christian faith, but for whom the traditional symbols, as traditionally understood, no longer make sense. The other audience is the audience that has left. I call them the Church Alumni Association, citizens of the secular city. They are a bit nostalgic about this faith of their childhood, but they aren't really interested in trotting it out or becoming involved with it again as it is presently organized.

  John Shelby Spong

  Christian, Cities, Two

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• I feel like I understood the language of comics. I had a real fluidity with that medium at a very early age.

  Daniel Clowes

  Real, Age, Fluidity

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. March 30, 2012.

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• To be truly seen and understood - in all our innocence and glory and yes, our brokenness, too - is to be delivered into the spiritual ethers where both seen and seer are healed.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Innocence, Glory

  "Enchanted Love". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think it is now widely understood that the so-called "War on Drugs" has largely been a failure. Too many people have developed criminal records for smoking marijuana. Too many people have gone to jail for nonviolent crimes. So I think it's important for us to rethink the war on drugs.

  Bernie Sanders

  War, Thinking, Marijuana

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• [Nelson] Mandela was very keen not to be understood as an exceptional person.

  Kumi Naidoo

  Exceptional, Persons, Nelson

  Source: anniepaul.net

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• My son is now fourteen, and from the moment he was born, I understood that forevermore my heart would be walking around outside my body.

  Dani Shapiro

  Heart, Son, Would Be

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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