Understood Quotes - Page 39

• Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.

  Roland Barthes

  Understanding, Literature, Trouble

  Roland Barthes, Richard Howard (1989). “Bruissement de la Langue”, p.372, Univ of California Press

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• It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Good Luck, Agreement, People

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• Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others.

  Martha Beck

  Creativity, Thinking, Use

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• Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?

  Theodore Bikel

  Country, Art, Pride

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• I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Acceptance, Animal, Men

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• Your voice is your tool and represents you. It's very important to have a good voice where you can be understood.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Voice, Important, Tools

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• I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.

  Bjork

  Used

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• One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free.

  Mary J. Blige

  People, Giving, One Day

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. May 2006.

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• If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

  Niels Bohr

  Inspirational, Life, Science

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• I wasn't funny as a kid. I remember enjoying comedians, but I never understood it was a job choice or a profession.

  Elayne Boosler

  Jobs, Kids, Choices

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• People never understood that there was Brian and The Boz. They were two completely different people.

  Brian Bosworth

  Two, People, Different

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• The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times.

  James Buchan

  Years, Age, Firsts

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• I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I understood the coin-op side of the games business very well.

  Nolan Bushnell

  College, Games, Coins

  "Meet Nolan Bushnell, the man who created the videogames industry". Interview with Steve Boxer, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2009.

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• Some comics really thrive on being disrespectful, especially toward women, and it's somehow understood as edgy, but I'm the opposite. I've never liked curse words for that reason.

  Bryan Callen

  Opposites, Disrespectful, Reason

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• Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, True Friend, Mind Your Own Business

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.67, Anchor

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• Well, when I started modeling in the mid-'80s, the girls who did shows did shows, and the girls who did magazines did magazines. That's what was understood.

  Naomi Campbell

  Girl, Magazines, Shows

  Interview with Tony Shafrazi, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 20, 2010.

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• Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.

  Noam Chomsky

  Waiting, Financial, Reason

  "My Interview With Noam Chomsky on the Economy". Interview with Ben Cohen, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 4, 2008.

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• I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.

  John Clare

  Squad, Awkward, Use

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• Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This condition started in the 15th and the 16th centuries with the beginning of the slave trade system. The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people.

  John Henrik Clarke

  People, World, Information

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• I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Mother, Father, Land

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• I've never understood multi-party democracy. It's hard enough with two parties.

  Hillary Clinton

  Party, Two, Democracy

  "Hillary Clinton wows young Europeans" by Ian Traynor, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2009.

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• I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists.

  Hillary Clinton

  Division, Realist, Idealist

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• I had my Aunt Rosie, who was famous and then not, so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I understood how little it has to do with you. And also how you could use it.

  George Clooney

  Aunt, Use, Lessons

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• The first thing that I learned - and I understood it at a really young age - was that I could get a laugh. Really early. Because my mother and father are funny.

  George Clooney

  Mother, Father, Laughing

  "George Clooney's Rules for Living" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. December 2013.

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• You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I already know what it is. It's on the box. And even if I don't, if it's a 5,000-piece puzzle of the 'Mona Lisa', it's not like I put the last piece in and go, 'I had no idea it's the 'Mona Lisa'!'

  Harlan Coben

  Ideas, People, Lasts

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