Understood Quotes - Page 38

• Donald Trump understood the dynamics of the new media system better than the people who ran the old media system.

  Van Jones

  Media, People, Dynamics

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• Steven [Sebring] just fell in with my family life. He helped me wash the dishes and play with the kids. I could tell that he was a person who understood families.

  Patti Smith

  Kids, Play, My Family

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I played sports, so I understood quickly I shouldn't be eating fast food because it was slowing me down, making me feel lousy and lazy, and my instincts were not working as they should.

  Wilmer Valderrama

  Sports, Lazy, Eating

  Source: www.thehollywoodgossip.com

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• I have never quite understood - and this is no doubt my failing - I never quite understood why you would read fiction to understand the human condition.

  Richard Dawkins

  Doubt, Never Quit, Fiction

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• [Trust Me] was TNT, and they were really supportive of the show, but in the end they just didn't feel it was their audience. I never really understood why we didn't get a longer run at it, because it was Griffin Dunne and Monica Potter. Just a really strong cast.

  Eric McCormack

  Running, Strong, Supportive

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We're well aware, and we have been for a long time, that there is a real threat from adversaries, state actors, non-state actors, to hack us, influence us, destroy stuff through cyber means. Because cyber threat has been understood for a while, it's longstanding, it's a concern.

  Susan Rice

  Real, Mean, Long

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I could go on and on about how the statements and concepts that used to depress me now bring me joy, but that is not easily understood for people who think the way I used to think and believe what I used to believe.

  Byron Katie

  Depressing, Believe, Thinking

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• It felt like an oversight to me, something that needed to be corrected. They [women who hid Jewish children] deserved to be understood and remembered.

  Megan Chance

  Children, Oversight, Needed

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Donald Trump understood America. He animated America, and now he'll be the president of all Americans.

  Kellyanne Conway

  America, President, Trump

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Those who actually do have a valid claim to such special competence have a particular obligation to make very clear to the general public the limits of what is understood at any serious level; these limits are typically very narrow in matters of significance in human affairs.

  Noam Chomsky

  Special, Levels, Matter

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• I never did like the assertion of the "innate" inferiority or women or Blacks, and I understood that when people tried to talk that way, they were trying to "fix" a social reality into a natural necessity. And yet, sometimes we do need a language that refers to a basic, fundamental, enduring, and necessary dimension of who we are, and the sense of sexed embodiment can be precisely that.

  Judith Butler

  Reality, People, Trying

  Source: transadvocate.com

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• It has to be understood that the world doesn't exist with people who are exactly like us.

  T.I.

  People, World

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• South Africa has faced many problems in the past. You would understand those problems if you understood the history of the struggle to get rid of Apartheid and the struggle to establish democracy.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Struggle, Past, Democracy

  "Tregernomics Interview with President Thabo Mbeki". Interview with Adam Treger, www.mbeki.org. October 31, 2016.

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• Any time one seeks to produce for a larger public one inevitably has to drop material that would only be understood by a particular group.

  Tim Parks

  Groups, Produce, Materials

  Source: theuntranslated.wordpress.com

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• When we were kids, you picked up a little paper and put it on a stick; and when you waved it back and forth, you understood the power of air underneath the wings. In that way, a child begins to understand abstraction, poetry, metaphor, symbolism. You play with the materials you have and use your imagination to make them into something else. That what's so sad about having everything on a little screen - it's not physical and dimensional, and that seems backward.

  Julie Taymor

  Children, Kids, Air

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• Let's start with the black glove. We felt it necessary being the fact that the Olympic Games, for the first time ever [in 1968], had been televised worldwide. The second thing is the fact that it was in Technicolor. Never had the games been shown in color before.We wanted it to be understood that we were representing America, but we were representing Black America in particular, so that's why we put the black glove on.

  John Carlos

  Color, Games, America

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Thrown into the atmosphere of action [in 1954], I suddenly understood the kind of neurosis that dominated all my previous work. I had not been able to recognize it before: I was inside. Simone de Beauvoir had guessed these reasons before I did.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Atmosphere, Neurosis, Able

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• Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

  Karl Popper

  Libertarian, Problem, Theory

  "Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach". Book by Karl Popper, 1972.

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• When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Positivity, Scripture

  Jack Kerouac, “The Scripture Of The Golden Eternity”

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• Now I know I am an intellectual. I saw Malcolm Muggeridge on the television last night, and I understood nearly every word. It all adds up. A bad home, poor diet, not liking punk. I think I will join the library and see what happens.

  Sue Townsend

  Home, Night, Thinking

  Sue Townsend (1991). “Adrian Mole, from Minor to Major: The Mole Diaries : the First Ten Years”

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• The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Children, World, Problem

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• She suddenly understood why she had let him kiss her in the diner, why she had wanted him at all. She wanted to control him. He was every arrogant boyfriend that had treated her mother badly. He was every boy that told her she was too freaky, who had laughed at her, or just wanted her to shut up and make out. He was a thousand times less real than Roiben.

  Holly Black

  Mother, Real, Kissing

  Holly Black (2012). “Tithe”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• My sister, who never understood most of the things I wanted her to, might have been able to understand what had happened to me in this summer of weddings and beginnings. And she was right. The first boy was always the hardest.

  Sarah Dessen

  Summer, Boys, Might

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “That Summer”, p.198, Penguin

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• When I was younger, I'd wanted someone to promise me that things would work out and nothing bad would ever happen again. But I understood now that that was a child's wish. No one could promise that. No one. The grown-ups could try, but they couldn't promise, not and mean it.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Children, Mean, Work Out

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• Rumpty!" he muttered, which was very rude if you were one of the few people in the universe who understood what it meant.

  Paul Cornell

  People, Rude, Ifs

  "Doctor Who The Scream Of The Shalka". Book by Paul Cornell, July 31, 2013.

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